Security, Securitization and Reform: Back to Integrative Partnership

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SECURITY, SECURITIZATION AND REFORM: BACK TO INTEGRATIVE PARTNERSHIP

2nd preparatory conference in view of the 2008 Annual EuroMeSCo Conference

Rome, 26-27 June 2008

VENUE: - International Conferences Room - Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Piazzale della Farnesina, 1

PROVISIONAL AGENDA - An English-French-Italian translation will be provided –

THURSDAY, JUNE 26TH

2:00 pm Departure by bus from the hotels to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for foreign participants

2:30 pm FIRST SESSION : Chair: Stefano Silvestri, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome

Introduction and welcome by  Cesare Maria Ragaglini, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rome  Gonçalo Santa Clara Gomes, EuroMeSCo Secretariat, Lisbon

3:00 pm SECOND SESSION : Chair: Cosimo Risi, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rome

Introductory Remarks on “Security, Securitization and Reform in the EMP”  Roberto Aliboni, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome

Panel on “Political dialogue and cooperation in the EMP: between securitization and normative action”

 Amal Belcaïd,, Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rabat

 Emma Bonino, Italian Senate, Rome /TBC

 Ahmed Driss, Centre d’études méditerranéennes et internationales, Tunis

 Nathalie Tocci, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome

 Paolo Quercia, Farefuturo Foundation, Rome

 Sotiris Varouxakis, Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Athens

DISCUSSION AND INTERVENTIONS FROM THE FLOOR

5:45 pm Adjournment

8:00 pm Dinner

FRIDAY, JUNE 27TH

8:30 am Departure by bus from the hotels to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

9:00 am THIRD SESSION : Working groups 9:00/10.45 am Working Group One: Soft Security Risks in the EMP: Overcoming Securitization Chair: Fouad Ammor, Groupement d' Etudes et de Recherches sur la Méditerranée, Rabat

Rapporteur: Ahmed Driss, Centre d’études méditerranéennes et internationales, Tunis

2 PANEL:  Gemma Aubarell, European Institute of the Mediterranean, Barcelona

 Raffaella Del Sarto, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford University, UK

 Francesca Galli, University of Cambridge, UK

DISCUSSION

9:00/10.45 am Working Group Two: Revisiting the Reform Perspective in Euro-Med Relations Chair: Claire Spencer, Royal Institute of International Affairs, London

Rapporteur: Dana Moss, Transatlantic Institute, Brussels

PANEL:

 Basem Ezbidi, Birzeit University, Ramallah  Dietrich Jung, Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen  Tobias Schumacher, EuroMeSCo Secretariat, Lisbon

DISCUSSION

11:00 am FOURTH SESSION :

3 Chair: Stefania Gabriella Craxi, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rome

REPORTS FROM THE WORKING GROUPS

Working Group One  Ahmed Driss, Centre d’études méditerranéennes et internationales, Tunis

Working Group Two  Dana Moss, Middle Eastern Area, Transatlantic Institute, Brussels

11:30 am ROUND TABLE on “Political Reforms in the New Framework of Barcelona Process: Union for the Mediterranean”

 Andrea Amato, Istituto per il Mediterraneo, Rome

 Fulvio Attinà, University of Catania

 Margherita Boniver, Italian Chamber of Deputies, Rome /TBC

 Atila Eralp, Center for European Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

 Abubakr Jamai, Journal Hebdomadaire, Casablanca

 Sofia Moreira de Sousa, Council of the European Union, Brussels

 Eduard Soler i Lecha, Centre d'Informació i Documentació Internacionals a Barcelona

ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION

1:15 pm CONCLUSIONS

 Gonçalo Santa Clara Gomes, EuroMeSCo Secretariat, Lisbon

 Roberto Aliboni, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome

1:30 pm Lunch-Buffet

2:30 pm Departure by bus from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the hotels for foreign participants

TBC = To Be Confirmed

Funded by the European Commission / EuropeAid Under contract MED-2005/109-063

Funded by the European Commission / EuropeAid 4 Under contract MED-2005/109-063