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Data: 02/04/2014
NR.: 91
DATA: 2/04/2014
TITOLO PROGETTO: 2014 International Neighbourhood Symposium.
RICHIESTA PROVENIENTE DA: Ciler Oztunca (Turchia)
TIPOLOGIA: Seminar / Conference
ARGOMENTO: Political and Social Change in the Eastern Neighbourhood and the Mediterranean South.
PAESI PARTNER CHE HANNO GIÀ ADERITO: -
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Activity date: 24th -29th of June 2014
Venue place, venue country: Istanbul, Heybeliada, Turkey
Summary: The CIES at Kadir Has University hosts the 4th International Neighbourhood Symposium between 24-29 June 2014.This Symposium will focus on “Exploring the Challenges of Political and Social Change in the Eastern Neighbourhood and the Mediterranean South.”
Target group: Youth workers, Trainers, Youth leaders, Project managers, Youth Policy Makers, EVS mentors/tutors, Journalists, young professionals, NGOs representatives.
For participants from: Neighbouring Partner Countries, Others, Youth In Action Programme Countries.
Group size: 40 participants
Details:
The Eastern Neighbourhood and the Mediterranean South are shared neighborhoods of the European Union, its member states, the Russian Federation, and Turkey. While each is distinct with its own historical, political, social, cultural and economic characteristics; their proximity suggests synergy across many sectoral issues such as energy, transport, and the environment as well as more immaterial concepts such as identity, culture, and democracy. While the Eastern Neighbourhood is composed of many states that aspire to closer ties including membership in the European Union and NATO; it is also home to the Russia Federation whose estrangement with the West and its institutions is growing while it claims the neighborhood for itself. The Mediterranean South finds itself in a state of ebullition for over two years since the Arab Awakening began. Furthermore more regions are positively influenced by the existence and the work of the European Union which the Norwegian Nobel Committee focused when it granted the Union the Peace Prize in 2012: “The successful struggle for peace and reconciliation and for democracy and human rights. The stabilizing part played by the EU has helped to transform most of Europe from a continent of war to a continent of peace.” The EU’s success in bridging the gap between Iran and the rest of the international community in order to achieve an interim nuclear accord and the inspiration the Union projects as Ukrainians decry their government’s decision not to sign an Association Agreement with the EU are a testament to its appeal and potential. The International Neighbourhood Symposium aims to discuss, assess, and understand these changes and challenges as well as explore the synergies between the two regions and the rest of Europe. Consequently, it focuses on the themes of Politics and Social Change and their challenges in each region. The Politics theme will focus on the security context in each region and sub region as well as the political changes, revolutions, uprisings in the region and the role of other extra regional actors be it states, international organizations, and non state actors. The Social Change theme will concentrate on issues such as the drivers of change, economic change and the role of social and new media in both regions. The themes of Democracy and Democratization will constitute the backdrop around which the debates will be geared. The issues of the domestic development of democracy, the role of the domestic arena as part of the democratization process, as well as the subjects of identity, pluralism, cultural diversity, secularism, and religion will all be debated to assess the state of play in both regions and their prospects for the future. All of these points will be discussed further through Structured Dialogue workshops facilitated by Professor Benjamin Broome from Arizona State University whereby participants will be presenting project proposals emanating from their cooperation in the workshops.
SCADENZA: 14th of April 2014
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