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'15Annual Report ’15 Annual Report Das Programm des Bruno Kreisky Forums für internationalen Dialog wird mit Unterstützung der Stadt Wien, der Republik Österreich, der Oesterreichischen Nationalbank, der Karl Kahane Stiftung und privater Sponsoren realisiert. Wir bedanken uns. Inhalt 5 FOREWORD 7 KALENDARIUM 2015 14 JAHRESTHEMA 2015 14 FUNDAMENTALISMUS UND MODERNE 18 LECTURE SERIES 18 AFRICA. Dimensions of a Continent 20 ARAB CHANGES 23 DEMOKRATIE RELOADED 28 DIASPOR A. Erkundungen eines Lebensmodells 30 DIE KRISE DER AUFKLÄRUNG 31 FRANZ VRANITZKY LECTURES 32 GENIAL DAGEGEN 45 BETWEEN REALPOLITIK AND PROPAGANDA: Assessing Russia’s Global Reach 47 TALKING FOR PEACE. A Karl Kahane Lecture Series 48 WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IN CONFLICT PREVENTION AND CONFLICT RESOLU- TION 50 BUCHPRÄSENTATIONEN 50 ÖRTLICHE GLEICHGÜLTIGKEIT 51 ÄNDERE DIE WELT! WARUM WIR DIE KANNIBALISCHE WELTORDNUNG STÜRZEN MÜSSEN 52 AUS EUCH WIRD NIE WAS 53 PUBLIC DEBATES 53 PEACE VISIONS TO THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT – Partions and its Alter- natives 58 RETHINKING THE POLITICS OF ISRAEL/PALESTINE – Partions and its Alternatives 59 TOWARDS A EUROPEAN PEACE INITIATIVE 60 EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL: A New Path for Irael-Palestine? 64 ROUNDTABLES AND SEMINARS 64 ALTERNATIVES TO PARTITION 2.0 67 ALTERNATIVES TO PARTITION 2.2 – A Feminist Perspective 68 ARAB | JEWISH ENGAGEMENTS 1 ARAB | JEWISH ENGAGEMENTS 2 69 EUROPE AT RISK 79 VIENNA CONVERSATIONS 1 80 VIENNA CONVERSATIONS 2 ADVISORIY GROUP MEETING 1989–2015: WOMEN IN POST-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES 82 CONFERENCES 82 1989–2015 WOMEN IN POST-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES 85 PREISVERLEIHUNGEN 85 BRUNO KREISKY PREIS FÜR DAS POLITISCHE BUCH 2015 90 BRUNO KREISKY PREIS FÜR VERDIENSTE UM DIE MENSCHENRECHTE 99 VERLEIHUNG DES GROSSEN EHRENZEICHEN FÜR VERDIENSTE UM DIE REPUBLIK ÖSTERREICH an Generalsekretärin Gertraud Auer Boread’Olmo 100 BRUNO KREISKY FORUM FÜR INTERNATIONALEN DIALOG 104 IMPRESSUM FOR EWOR D 2015: The (first) ten plus one years. (©Melitta Campostrini) Together with my excellent team, the curators, our fellows and partner institutions we have consolidated the Bruno Kreisky Forum as a genuine centre of European and international thinking. We have enlarged our capacity of drawing attention to sensitive human and political problems and so could trigger a communication process between opposing parties – within Europe, between Europe and its neighbouring regions as well as between Europe and the Middle East. The crisis of democracy in Europe, the tragedies in the Middle East and their dramatic consequences for peoples’ security and wellbeing were at the centre of our activities, adding new lecture series and featuring a number of international experts. A lecture series curated by Isolde Charim addressed the confrontation between ›Fundamentalism and Modernity‹ and raised questions related to strategies to prevent the drift off to radicalization as well as questions of fundamental problems liberal society is faced with: How does a liberal society cope with violence? How does a liberal society respond to a threat to its liberalism? How can an open society avoid its clamping down? In continuation of last year’s 1325 conference ›Women in International Dialogue‹ – a feminist approach to inter- national politics – Viola Raheb joined our team of curators. Our lecture series and public debates are always attended by an impressive number of interested citizens – the Bruno Kreisky Forum being the place to express ideas and exchange views in Vienna’s public sphere. Thanks to the support of our sponsors we were able to further expand the so-called invisible part of our work, namely the activities of our working- and research groups (›protected groups‹). In co-operation with the Progressive Alliance of the Social Democratic Members of the European Parliament and academic institutions, the publication ›Rethinking the Politics of Israel/Palestine‹ was presented in the European Parliament in Brussels, in the House of Europe in Vienna, and in round table discussions in several European capitals. The Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia continues to be our partner institute for the series ›Europe at Risk‹ and new international partner institutes joined us in important geopolitical challenges. As recognition of our commitment I was bestowed by Austrian President Heinz Fischer with the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Austria (›Großes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich‹), which I gratefully accepted in the name of my team and my supportive family. During the second half of the year the Karl Kahane Foundation and the Bruno Kreisky Forum joined forces in the search for authentic voices in the refugee crisis. Together we planned and organized ›N-O-W – International Mayors’ Conference‹, which opened the first chapter of our activities in 2016. More to come in Annual ’16! I would also like to thank the Board of Directors for the confidence they have shown in me, the sponsors for their support, my team, the curators and all the participants in the working groups for their commitment and our audience for their loyalty. Gertraud Auer Borea d’Olmo Secretary General 90 Jahre Ari Rath KALENDARIUM 2015 (6 | 7) A. Rath | R. Scholten | H. Fischer A. Al-Azmeh I. Griess | R. Scholten KALENDARIUM 2015 Jänner 2015 Geburtstagsfest 8. Jänner 90 JAHRE ARI RATH mit Bela Koreny and Friends, Andrea Eckert, Cornelius Obonya, Timna Brauer Genial Dagegen 19. Jänner MACHT DIE FENSTER AUF UND LASST LUFT HEREIN! Zum 104. Geburtstag von Bruno Kreisky mit Sibylle Hamann, Journalistin; Julia Herr, Vorsitzende Sozialistische Jugend Österreich; Andreas Schieder, SPÖ-Klubobmann im Nationalrat; David Schalko, Regisseur und Autor Roundtable Seminar 26.–27. Jänner EUROPE AT RISK 2.0 – NEW PARADIGMS FOR EUROPEAN SECURITY In Cooperation with the Centre for Liberal Strategies – Sofia and the Bureau for Security Policy of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Defense and Sports Demokratie Reloaded 27. Jänner EXODUS: EINE REVOLUTION BEGRÜNDET DIE MODERNE WELT Jan Assmann, Ägyptologe an der Universität Heidelberg Arab Changes 28. Jänner RELIGION, VIOLENCE AND CIVILITY: PARIS BEFORE AND AFTER Aziz Al-Azmeh, Director of the Center for Religious Studies, Department of History, Central European University, Budapest Februar 2015 Public Debate 5. Februar PEACE VISIONS TO THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT – PARTITION AND ITS ALTERNATIVES S&D Group round table event Altiero Spinelli Building (ASP) 5G3, European Parliament, Brussels Africa. Dimensions of a Continent 6.Februar EUROPEAN SECURITY AND THE HORN OF AFRICA Alexander Rondos, EU Special Representative for the Horn of Africa; Christian Ultsch, Foreign Editor, Die Presse Kamingespräch 10. Februar IRMGARD GRIESS R. Al Khouri | G. Harrer G.Auer Borea d’Olmo | G. Klug B. Bashir | I. Aron | M. Jabali | N. Sheizaf Buchpräsentation 11. Februar ÖRTLICHE GLEICHGÜLTIGKEIT Einleitung: Alfred Gusenbauer, Bundeskanzler a.D.; Peter Weinberger, Physiker und Autor; Rubina Möhring, Reporter ohne Grenzen; Eva Nowotny, Vorstandsmitglied des Bruno Kreisky Forums Seminar 13.–14. Februar ALTERNATIVES TO PARTITION – Israel/Palestine Civil Society activists Book Launch & Public Debate 16. Februar RETHINKING THE POLITICS OF ISRAEL/PALESTINE. Partitition and its Alternatives. Introductory Remarks: Gerald Klug, Federal Minister of Defense and Sports; Hannes Swoboda, Member of the Board of Bruno Kreisky Forum; Bashir Bashir, Editor of the book Roundtable Debate: Gertraud Auer Borea, Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue; Avraham Burg, writer and political activist, former Speaker of the Knesset; Azar Dakwar, co-editor of the book; Inbal Arnon, Hebrew Uni- versity; Noam Sheizaf, editor of +972; Bashir Bashir, Van Leer Institute and Hebrew University Final Remarks: Hannes Swoboda, Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue in cooperation with European Commission Austria and Informationsbüro des Europäischen Parlaments in Österreich Diaspora. Erkundungen eines Lebensmodells 19. Februar DIE POSTMIGRANTISCHE GESELLSCHAFT UND IHRE TRENNLINIEN: ZWISCHEN OFFENHEIT UND FURCHT VOR ISLAMISIERUNG Naika Foroutan, Sozialwissenschaftlerin an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin und stv. Direktorin des Berliner Insti- tuts für empirische Integrations- und Migrationsforschung Arab Changes 26. Februar CURRENT WARS IN THE MIDDLE EAST: AN INSIDE VIEW Riad al Khouri, Jordanian Economist März 2015 Franz Vranitzky Lectures 3. März DIE PARADOXE REPUBLIK Buchpräsentation und Diskussion Diskussion mit Franz Vranitzky, Bundeskanzler a.D. und Oliver Rathkolb, Autor, Institut für Zeitgeschichte Univ. Wien; Moderation Cathrin Kahlweit, Süddeutsche Zeitung Genial Dagegen 9. März KAMPF UM DIE STADT. MIETWAHNSINN, AUFWERTUNG UND VERDRÄNGUNG – UND WAS MAN DAGEGEN TUN KANN Andrej Holm, Stadt- und Regionalsoziologe an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin KALENDARIUM 2015 (8 | 9) H. Swoboda Y. Ghebreab G. Lennkh | Ch. Manahl | H. Alizadeh Roundtable Seminar 14.–16. März EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL: A NEW PATH FOR ISRAEL/PALESTINE? Two-Day International Conference at Birkbeck, University of London In Cooperation with Independent Jewish Voices Genial Dagegen 17. März ÖKOPOPULISMUS. VOM NUTZEN UND NACHTEIL DER NACHHALTIGKEIT FÜR DAS LEBEN Fred Luks, Leiter des Kompetenzzentrums für Nachhaltigkeit der WU Wien Diaspora – Erkundungen eines Lebensmodells 23. März WIR KÖNNEN DOCH NICHT ALLE NEHMEN! EUROPA ZWISCHEN›DAS BOOT IST VOLL‹ UND ›WIR STERBEN AUS‹ Livia Klingl, Autorin Buchpräsentation 25. März ÄNDERE DIE WELT! WARUM WIR DIE KANNIBALISCHE WELTORDNUNG STÜRZEN MÜSSEN Jean Ziegler, Autor, Genf
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