United Nations

First Alliance of Civilizations Forum Participant List

Opening Plenary Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned Chair, Foundation for Education, Jose Luis Zapatero Science & Community Development Prime Minister of Spain Qatar

Recep Tayyip Erdogan Mary Robinson Prime Minister of Turkey President, Realizing Rights: Ethical Globalization Initiative Ban Ki-Moon Ireland Secretary-General of the United Nations Javier Solana Madariaga Jorge Sampaio High Representative of Secretary General of Council of the the Alliance of Civilizations European Union and the Western European Union, and High Representative for Common Foreign and PLENARY SESSION I: The Alliance Security Policy of Civilizations: Managing Diversity in the Era of Globalization Danilo Turk President of the Republic of Slovenia Moderator: Ghida Fakhry-Khane, News Anchor, Al-Jazeera International PLENARY SESSION II: Political Challenges to Building Cross-Cultural Speakers Understanding

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Moderator: Robin Nibblet Prime Minister of Malaysia Director, Chatham House - Royal Institute of International Affairs Kjell Magne Bondevik United Kingdom Director, Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights Speakers Norway Ali Alatas Enrique Iglesias Former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Secretary-General, Ibero-American Indonesia Secretariat Uruguay Adelaziz Belkhadem Prime Minister of Algeria Koichiro Matsuura Director General of UNESCO Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni Micheline Calmy-Rey Director General of Education, Culture Minister for Foreign Affairs of and Heritage, Youth and Sport Switzerland Council of France Shirin Ebadi Nobel Laureate Ambassador Wonil Cho Iran Executive Director, -Europe Foundation Gareth Evans Singapore President and Chief Executive International Crisis Group Lucio Guerrato Belgium Director, Anna Lindh Foundation Egypt Tarja Halonen President of the Republic of Finland Carmen Moreno Director, UN International Research and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu Training Institute for the Advancement Secretary-General of Women Organization of the Islamic Conference Nafis Sadik Miguel Moratinos United Nations Special Envoy for Minister for Foreign Affairs of HIV/Aids Spain Katerina Stenou Abdoulaye Wade Director, Division of Cultural Policies President of the Republic of Senegal and Intercultural Dialogue UNESCO France WORKING SESSION 1: Consolidating International WORKING SESSION 2: Building the Partnerships AoC Clearinghouse: Media Literacy Education Moderator: Jean-Christophe Bas Development Policy Dialogue Manager, Moderator: Pär Lundgren World Bank Professor of Media & Communication Sciences, University of Karlstad Participants Sweden

Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri Speakers Director General of ISESCO Morocco Regina de Assis MULTIRIO Amitav Banerji Brazil Director, Office of the Commonwealth Secretary-General C. K. Cheung United Kingdom University of Hong Kong China

Renée Hobbs Ulla Carlsson Temple University Director, Nordic Information Center for USA Media Communication Research Sweden Agustin Garcia Matilla Universidad de Valladolid Alexander Fedorov Spain Taganrog State Pedagogical Institute Russia Samy Tayie Cairo University Divina Frau Meigs Egypt Sorbonne University France Participants Jose Ignacio Aguaded Gomez Rawia Alhumaidan Grupo Comunicar College of Basic Education Spain Kuwait David Kleeman Ilhem Allagui American Center for Children and American University of Sharjah Media USA

Neil Andersen Keval J. Kumar University of Ontario University of Poona Canada India

Sanjay Asthana Julieta Langa Middle Tennessee State University Eduardo Mondlane University USA Mozambique

Lynda Bergsma Geoff Lealand AMLA/University of Arizona University of Waikato USA New Zealand

Evelin Bevort Susan Moeller Deputy Director, Centre de Liaison de University of Maryland L'Enseignement des Moyens de USA l'information France Jamal Eddine Naji Institut Superieur de l'Information et de Robin Blake la Communication OFCOM Morocco United Kingdom Jacqueline O’Rourke Mahmoud Bunaib Qatar Foundation Kids Qatar Qatar Valenti Gomez I Oliver OETI Spain

Jose Manuel Perez Tornero WORKING SESSION 3: The Role of Barcelona Autonoma University Religious Leaders and Communities Spain in Promoting Shared Security

Vítor Reia-Baptista Moderator: John O.Onaiyekan University of Algarbe Archbishop, Archdiocese of Abuja Portugal Nigeria

Ibrahim Saleh Speakers American University of Cairo Egypt Karen Armstrong Author María Dolores Souza United Kingdom Educational TV Chile Azza Karam Culture Advisor Jordi Torrent United Nations Populations Fund Project Manager USA AoC Media Literacy Education Spain His Holiness Abune Paulos Patriarch, Ethiopian Orthodox Church Aslı Tunc Ethiopia Istanbul Bilgi University Turkey Rabbi David Rosen Chairman, International Jewish Kathleen Tyner Committee for Interreligious University of Texas Consulations; International Director for USA Interreligious Affairs, AJC Israel Tapio Varis University of Tampere, Finland Din Syamsuddin Finland President, Central Board, Muhammadiyah Cilia Willem Indonesia University of Barcelona Spain Sheikh Tayseer R. Tamimi Head, High Legal Court and Supreme Shahir Zahine Council for Religious Adjudication The Killid Group Gaza, Palestine Afghanistan Participants Laura di Lucia Coletti Provincia Etica di Venezia Ajwad Hatoon Al Fassi Italy Professor, University King Saud Matteo Zacchetti EC Commission on Media and Technology

Ali al Hashimi Muhammad Hallar Counsel for Religious Affairs of the Secretary-General, Islamic Organization UAE President of Latin American and the Caribbean United Arab Emirates Argentina

Seyed Mohammad Ali Abtahi Hassan Hanafi President, Institute for Inter-religious Professor of Philosophy, Cairo Dialouge University Iran Egypt

Aisha al Mannai Joel Hunter Dean, Sharia Department Senior Pastor, National Association of University of Qatar Evangelicals Qatar USA

Sheikha Hussa Al-Sabah Al-Salim Al- Mark Juergensmeyer Sabah Director Global and Internaternational Director, Kuwait Museum of Islamic Art Studies, University of California at Santa Kuwait Barbara USA Cardinal Carlos Amigo Vallejo Archbishop of Seville William Kerr Spain Director, Claude Pepper Center, Florida State University Mehmet Aydin USA State Minister Turkey Sister Joan Kirby President, UN Committee of Religious Canon Trond Bakkevig NGOs Dean, Vestre Aker Church of Norway Norway Metropolitan Kirill Chairman, Russian Orthodox Church Pierre Besnainou Russia President, Fonds Social Juif Unifie FSJU France Juan José Tamayo-Acosta Theologist, Universidad Carlos III Josef Boehle Spain Co-ordinator, UNESCO Chair in Interfaith Studies, University of Tarek Mitri Birmingham Minister of Culture United Kingdom Lebanon

Joyce Dubonsky William Vendley Founder and President, The Secretary-General, Religions for Peace Tannenbaum Center USA USA

WORKING SESSION 4: Innovative Omar Amanat Uses of Mass Media to Promote Cross- Co-Founder, Groundswell Productions; Cultural Understanding Founding Board Memer, AoC Media Fund Moderator: Shamil Idriss USA Acting Director, Alliance of Civilizations Secretariat Derrick Ashong Director of Business Development Speakers Weapons of Mass Entertainment /USA Abdul Rahman al-Rashed General Manager, Al-Arabiya Richard Barret United Arab Emirates Director, Al Qaeda/Taliban Monitoring Team Julia Bacha UN Office of Counter-Terrorism Media Director, Just Vision Brazil Subhash Chandra Chairman, Essel Group of Companies Jim Berk India CEO, Participant Productions USA Youseef El-Deeb Takhayal Entertainment Susan Collin Marks Egypt Executive Vice President Search for Common Ground Mahnaz Anwar Fancy South Senior Advisor, AoC Media Fund USA Amr Khaled Telvision Host and Broadcaster José Manuel Garasino Egypt Director, Media Business School Spain Suhail Rizvi Chairman, Rizvi Traverse Management Mohammed Gohar Founding Board Member, AoC Media CEO, Video CairoSat Fund Egypt USA Ambrose James Participants Director, Talking Drum Studio Sierra Leone Hamad Al-Kawari Board Member, Al Jazeera Richard Kießler Qatar Editor in Chief, WAZ Mediengruppe Germany Anas Altikriti CEO, Cordoba Foundation Abdul Waheed Khan United Kingdom Assistant Director General for Communications and Information UNESCO

Driss Ksikes Elise Auvachez Jounralist & Contributor, Le Nouvel Section for Youth, Sport & Physical Observateur Education Former Director, Telquel UNESCO Morocco Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni Patrick Le Lay Director General of Education, Culture President Directeur-General, TFI and Heritage, Youth and Sport France Council of Europe

Mario Lubetkin Rajmukar Bidle Director General, Inter Press Service Programme Officer, Youth Affairs Italy Division Commonwealth Secretariat H.M. Queen Noor Chair, King Hussein Foundation Elshad H. Iskandarov Jordan Secretary-General Islamic Conference Youth Forum for Ricken Patel Dialogue and Cooperation President, AVAAZ.org USA Diogo Pinto Secretary-General Luis Rivas European Youth Forum; Director, News and Programs EuroNews International Coordination Meeting of Youth Organizations Andreas Rudas Executive Director, WAZ Ost Holding Ali Sarikaya Austria President Islamic Conference Youth Forum for Cynthia Schneider Dialogue and Cooperation Distinguished Professor of Diplomacy, Georgetown University; Coordinator, Moderators & Facilitators: Arts & Culture Initiative, Brookings Institution Derrick Ashong USA Director of Business Development Weapons of Mass Entertainment Andrés Vicente Gómez LOLAFILMS International, SL Sharese Bullock Spain Strategic Partnerships & Marketing, Listen Up! WORKING SESSION 5: Intercultural and Interreligious Youth Mark Evans Exchanges (& 14 January Youth Director, Connecting Cultures Orientation Session) Shira Lewenburg Representatives of AoC Youth Partner Director, Outward Bound Center for Organizations Peacebuilding

Josephina Lofgren Alliance of Civilizations Secretariat John Marks Hassan Al-Ibrahim President, Search for Common Ground Qatari Student Network Qatar Tyler Norris Executive Director, Abraham Path Khalid Al-Jufairi Initiative Qatar

Eboo Patel Aisha Al-Mesned Executive Director, Interfaith Youth Qatar Core Leyla Aliyeva Ricken Patel Representative, Heydar Aliyev President, AVAAZ.org Foundaion in Russian Federation. Azerbaijan Nadia Roumani Senior Advsior Geert Ates Alliance of Civilizations Secretariat UNITED Netherlands Shaukat Warraich Director, Right Start Foundation Cabrera Echeveria Anibal Bernardo United Kingdom FLAJ Paraguay Lucas Welch President, Soliya Hoda Barakat Member, UNESCO Club of Saint- Inayah Wahid Joseph University The Positive Movement Lebanon

Youth Participants Toni Bandov Youth Centre Livno Osama Adel Abdullah Alfalah Bosnia & Herzegovina Youth Department Asia Muslims Committee Mariya Boguslav Kuwait National Committee, “All Different – All Equal” Vincent Sèmako Adanvoessi Ukraine Reseau GLEGBENU/ Chantier Jeunes Benin Georg Boldt President, Advisory Council of Youth Nina Aeckerle Council of Europe United Network Of Young Finland Peacebuilders The Netherlands Kanamugire Cleophas Youth Association for Dissemination of Aguilar Salgado Alba Development Information WAGGGS Rwanda El Salvador Adrian Contursi WOSM Argentina Meymune Davatoglu Viktoria Kharchenko Fellow, Foundation for Sciences and National Youth Council of Russia Arts Russia Turkey Lina Kirjazovaite Romano Fidel Danish Youth Council ECOSY Denmark Italy Topuria Lela Nathalie Grandjean Georgia National Youth Council Youth representative, General Georgia Assembly, Swiss National Youth Council Lujain I Madani Switzerland Spain

Anush Hayrapetyan Najlaa Mahboubi National Youth Council of Armenia Youth Representative, Board of the Armenia Marrakesch University Morocco Crespo Salamea Hernan Francisco IUSY Christopher Derige Malano Ecuador International Movement Of Catholic Students Magdalena Herova France Inex-Sda Czech Republic Dragan Markoski Youth Association Creative Elaine Howard FYR Macedonia Youth representative, Commonwealth's Respect and Understanding Commission Areti Metuamate-Tuatini Tonga Adviser, Office of MP Hon. Judith Tizard Hagar Ibrahim New Zealand Youth Advocacy Team, Bibliotheca Alexandrina Mustafa Maysa Egypt Muslim Youth Oxford United Kingdom Jani K.Jallah Member of Federation of Liberian Monica Kalandia Youths; National Commission of Liberia AEGEE-Europe for UNESCO Georgia Liberia Adeola Ojeniyi Harun Karcic Member & National Coordinator for Islamic Community Of Bosnia And Nigeria, Member, West African Youth Herzegovina Network Bosnia-Herzegovina Nigeria

Silva Paola Tobias Traut IFLRY Ecumenical Youth Council In Europe Colombia Germany

Benjamin Victor Powless Freitas Vania Youth Representative, Board of CNJ Directors of the Local Native Friendship Portugal Centre; Member, Youth Advisory Group for the Canadian Comission for Csilla Veszteg UNESCO Jugendzentrum Oberndorf Canada Austria

Asis Rey INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION Asian Students Association WORKING GROUP BREAKFAST Philippines Moderator: President Jorge Sampaio Hannan Rhellam High Representative, UN Alliance of Miljonkulturell ungdom and LSU Civilizations Sweden Speakers Jose Manuel Romero Coello Secretary, Youth Colima, Mexico Vartan Gregorian Mexico President, Carnegie Corporation USA Flavio Ronzi Red Cross International Muna Abu Sulaiman Italy Executive Manager, Kingdom Foundation Patel Shivangi Saudi Arabia Trainer, Young Experimenters Group; Member, Indian Committee of Youth Participants Organisations India Omar Amanat Co-Founder, Groundswell Productions Amarjit Singh Gill Board Member, AoC Media Fund Member, Gerak Sikh Youth USA Malaysia Saif Alhajari Sarah Ann Suda Director, Qatar Foundation Member, Malta UNESCO Youth Qatar Association Malta Betsy Fader Director, Strategy and Planning Stefanie Simone Thomas Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Member, Jamaica Youth Ambassadors USA Programme, UNESCO's Cultual Development Committee Simon Xavier Gerrand-Hermes Jamaica Chairman, Guerrand-Hermes Foundation for Peace

Barbara Ibrahim Fathy Saoud Director, John D. Gerhart Center for President, Qatar Foundation Philanthropy and Civic Engagement, Qatar American University in Cairo Egypt Joan Spero President, Doris Duke Charitable Fund Hywel Ceri Jones USA Director, Network of European Foundations Holland Taylor Founder, LibForAll Tom Kessinger USA General Manager, The Aga Khan Foundation Emilio Rui Vilar Switzerland President, Fundacao Colouste Gulbenkian James Kidner Portugal Director, The Coexist Foundation United Kingdom Hillary Weisner Director, Islam Initiative, Carnegie John Kiser Corporation Chairman, William and Mary Greve USA Foundation USA WORKING SESSION 6: Conflict Prevention, Religion and Politics at Firoz Ladak the Community Level Executive Director, The Edmond & Benjamin de Rothschild Foundations Moderator: Oliver McTernan Switzerland Co-founder and Director, Forward Thinking Soliman Abdul Moneim United Kingdom Director, Arab Thought Foundation Saudi Arabia Speakers

Kavita Ramdas Prince Turki al-Feisal President & CEO, Global Fund for Chairman, King Feisal Center for Women Research and Islamic Studies USA Saudi Arabia

Felipe Gómez-Pallete Rivas Andre Azoulay Director General Fundación Amancio Adviser to HM King Mohamed VI Ortega Morocco Spain Salima Ghazali Jorge Segrelles Editor-in-Chief, La Nation Director Gerente, Fundación Repsol Algeria YPF Spain

Eliseo Mercado Heba Raouf Ezzat Chair, National Peace Council; Former Lecturer, Cairo University President of Notre Dame University in Egypt Cotabato City Philippines Andrés Ortega Author Narcis Serra Spain Former Deputy Prime Minister of Spain, President, CIDOB - Barcelona Denison Jayasooria Spain President, Social Strategic Foundation Malaysia John Esposito Founder and Director, Alwaleed Center Petra Jonk for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Georgetown University Regeringsbeleid USA Netherlands

Participants Gilles de Kerchove EU Counter-terrorism Coordinator Ziad Abu Amr Belgium Former Minister for Foreign Affairs for the Palestinian Authority Ravi Krishnamurthy Palestine Worldwide Programs Director LibforAll Foundation Richard Barret Indonesia Director, Al-Qaeda/Taliban Monitoring Team in the UN Office of Counter- Kjell Magne Bondevik Terrorism Director, Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights Chris Carter Norway Minister of Ethnic Affairs and Education New Zealand Dalia Mogahed Research Director, Gallup Organization Stephen Grand USA Director, Project on US Relations with the Islamic World Mohamed Jawhar Hassan USA Chairman and CEO, Institute of Strategic and International Studies Jaap de Zwaan Malaysia Director, Clingendael Institute of International Relations Vitaly Naumkin Netherlands President, International Center for Strategic and Political Studies Gareth Evans Russia Secretary-General, International Crisis Group Farhan Nizami Australia Director, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies United Kingdom

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf Pedro Martínez Montávez Director, Cordoba Initiative Former Dean, Universidad Autónoma de Malaysia Madrid Spain Senator Douglas Roche Former Senator WORKING SESSION 7: Rapid Canada Response Media Mechanism

Jamal Tahat Moderator: Riz Khan Businessman News Anchor, al-Jazeera International Jordan Qatar

William Ury Participants Director, Global Negotiation Project, Harvard University; Miguel Ángel Aguilar Chair, Abraham Path Initiative Senior Columnist, El Pais; USA Secretary-General, Association of European Journalists Stein Villumstad Spain Deputy Secretary-General, Religions for Peace Mina Al Oraibi USA Al Sharq Al Awsat /United Kingdom Sundeep Waslekar President, Strategic Foresight Group; Stefanie Bolzen Founder, International Centre for Peace Redactora, Sección Internacional, Die Initiatives Welt. Alemania India Germany

Radwan Ziadeh Mohamed Colin Director, Damascus Center for Human Publication Director, Saphirnews Rights Studies Jamaica Syria Ángeles Espinosa Leila Alikarami Correspondent of El Pais in Iran Center for Defenders of Human Rights Spain Iran Ángel Expósito Mustafa Barghuti Director, Europapress Former Minister of Information for the Spain Palestinian Authority Palestine Hameed Haroon Owner, Dawn Newspaper Mouna Ghanem Pakistan Former President, Council on Family Syria Khaled Hroub Director, Cambridge Arab Media Project United Kingdom

Jihad Khazen Jochen Thies Senior Columnist, Al Hayat Director, Deutschelandradio Kultur Egypt/United Kingdom Germany

Gema Martín Muñoz Ferayi Tinc Director, Arab House - Madrid World News, Columnist, Hurriyet Daily Spain Turkey

David Michaelis Sandro Viola Director of Current Affairs, Link TV Columnist, La Repubblica USA Italy

Emad Omar Shaukat Warraich Columnist, Daily Star & al-Hayat Director, Right Start Foundation Jordan United Kingdom

Carlos Pagni WORKING SESSION 8: Engaging Analista político de LA NACIÓN the Corporate Sector in the AoC - Argentina How Business and Increased Cross Cultural Understanding Can Benefit Lawrence Pintak Each Other Director, Center for Electronic Journalism; The American University in Moderator : Aldo Olcese Cairo, Publisher/Co-editor, Arab Media Presidente de la Sección de Ciencias & Society Económico-Contables y Financieras de Egypt la Real Academia de Ciencias Económicas y Financieras Anita Pratap Spain Former South Asia Bureau Chief, CNN India/Saudi Arabia Speakers & Presenters

Abdul Rahman Rashed Ferdinando Beccalli-Falco General Manager, Al Arabiya President and CEO, General Electric United Arab Emirates International Belgium Amina Rasul Editor, Manila Times & Moro Times Meriem Bensalah Philippines Directora General de Les Eaux Minérales d’Oulmès Felipe Sahagún Morocco Journalist, El Mundo Spain Antonio Brufau CEO, Repsol YPF Rabbi Arthur Schneier Spain President, Appeal of Conscience Foundation Fulvio Conti USA CEO de ENEL Italy

Andre Fourie Alberto Duran Lopez CEO, National Business Initiative CEO, Fundación ONCE para la South Africa Cooperacion e Integracion Social de Personas con Discapacidad Mustapha Koc Spain Chairman, Koc Holding Turkey Manuel Escudero Special Projects, UN Global Compact Habiba Al Marashi Chairperson, Emirates Environmental Talal Abu Ghazaleh Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer United Arab Emirates Talal Abu Ghazaleh International Egypt Eduardo Montes Vice-President, SIEMENS José Ignacio Goirigolzarri Germany Consejero Delegado, BBVA Spain Participants Effenus Henderson Ishak Alaton Chief Diversity Officer, Weyerhauser CEO, Alarko Group Company Turkey USA

Juan Alfaro Saad Kettani Secretario General, Club de Excelencia y President and Director General, Wafa Sostenibilidad Corp Spain Morocco

Mario Armero Rick Little Presidente para España y Portugal, Chairman, Organizing Team for the General Electric Youth Employment Center; Founder of Spain the ImagineNations Group and of the International Youth Foundation Carlos Perez de Bricio USA/Qatar Presidente, CEPSA Spain Honorato López Isla Vice Presidente Primero y Consejero Ahmet Çalik Delegado, Unión Fenosa CEO, Çalik Group Spain Turkey Mark Makepeace Celia de Anca CEO, FTSE Group Associate Dean, Instituto de Empresa United Kingdom Business School Spain Güler Sabanci CEO, Sabanci Group, Turquia Sasho Dontchev Turkey CEO, Overgas Inc. Bulgaria

Ferit Sahenk Abdel Azim Wazir CEO, Dogus Grou Mayor of Cairo Turkey Egypt

Rachid Slimi Jordi Hereu CEO, CDG Development Mayor of Barcelona Morocco Spain

Sheikha Hanadi Nasser Bin Khalid Al Thani Vice Chairperson and Managing Director, Qatar Ladies Investment Alberto Ruiz Gallardon Company Mayor of Madrid Qatar Spain

Lachezar Tzotzokov Wole Soyinka Executive Director, Asarel Medet JSCo Writer and Nobel Laureate Bulgaria Nigeria

Ali Naraghi Actoverco

Simon Wills Vice President, Public Sector Cisco

Ayhan Yavrucu Board Member and CEO, Alarko Group of Companies Turkey

PLENARY SESSION III: From Global Talk to Local Action

Speakers

Moderator: Bertrand Delanoe Mayor of Paris; Co-President, United Cities and Local Governments

Paulo Coelho Author Brazil

Kadir Topbaş Mayor of Istanbul Turkey