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Belgrade Security Forum 2020 NO TRUST - NO PEACE! Belgrade Security Forum 2020 NO TRUST - NO PEACE! Day 1, October 6 • 17:00 - 18:00 BSF Discussion: 10th Anniversary of the Belgrade Security Forum Sonja Licht , Igor Bandovic , Zvezdana Kovac , Moderator Marko Savkovic • 18:30 - 19:30 BSF Discussion: What is at stake in the Eastern Mediter- ranean? Nikos Tsafos, James Ker Lindsay , Isabelle Ioannides, Moderator Milan Krstic Day 2, October 14 • 18:00 - 19:00 BSF Discussion: Saving Democracy: Cooperation and Solidar- ity in the Aftermath of the Pandemic Ivan Krastev , Thomas Carothers, Ulrike Guerot Day 3, October 20 • 10:00 - 10:15 Academic Welcoming Speech (In partnership With OSCE Mis- sion to Serbia) Igor Bandovic , John Clayton • 10:15 - 10:45 Academic Keynote Speech: The Silence of the Systems: In- formal Networks, Hidden Practices and Invisible Domination - Evidence from the Global Informality Project (In partnership With OSCE Mission to Serbia) Alena Ledeneva • 11:00 - 11:45 Academic Panel 1: Which Theory Does Best Capture State Capture? (In partnership With OSCE Mission to Serbia) Andrea L Capussela, Iurij Zarubin, Discussant Milos Resimic, Dusan Pavlovic • 12:00 - 12:45 Academic Panel 2: STATE CAPTURE AS AN UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE OF CONFLICT- RESOLUTION (In partnership With OSCE Mission to Serbia) Donika Emini, Christopher Jackson, Damir Kapidzic, Discussant Marko Zilovic, Mod- erator Sonja Stojanovic Gajic • 13:00 - 13:45 Academic Panel 3: State Capture and Security In Serbia (In partnership With OSCE Mission to Serbia) Predrag Petrovic, Tena Prelec , Sasa Dordevic, Discussant Vladimir Dordevic, Mod- erator Karsten Friis 1 • 17:00 - 18:00 Partner Session: Anti-Western Narratives in the Western Balkans: Threat to Euro-Atlantic Integration? (in Partnership with the European Western Balkans) Jasna Jelisic, Nikola Burazer, Florian Bieber , Asya Metodieva, Moderator Tena Prelec • 18:30 - 19:30 Partner Session: The Impact of Covid-19 on Organized Crime (in partnership with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Serbia, part of the MATRA program of the Dutch Ministry for Foreign Aairs) Mark Shaw, Angela Me, Keith Ditcham, Sascha Strupp, Giuseppe Sorrenti, Moderator Bojan Elek Day 4, October 21 • 10:30 - 11:00 BSF IN CONVERSATION: The Pandemic, the World and the Western Balkans: A view from London David Landsman, Moderator Vesna Damjanic • 11:30 - 12:30 Panel 1: The Depopulation Challenge: Shaping the Future Social, Political and Economic Landscape (in Partnership with UNDP and UNFPA) Darrell Bricker, Alanna Armitage, Ivo Belet, Tim Judah , Moderator Mirjana Spoljaric Egger • 17:00 - 18:00 Panel 2: Will the Pandemic Reshape or Accelerate History? Mikulas Dzurinda, Bruno Macaes , Manuel Muniz , Valerie Niquet, Joonseok Yang, Moderator Maaike Okano Heijmans • 18:30 - 19:30 BSF In Conversation: Mainstreaming Right-Wing Extremism Sasha Havlicek , Zeljko Jovanovic, Moderator Federico Ottavio Reho Day 5, October 22 • 11:45 - 12:45 Panel 3: Western Balkans, Emerging from the New Disorder (in Partnership with the Embassy of the Netherlands) Oliver Varhelyi, Tomas Petricek, Majlinda Bregu , Susanne Schutz , Robert De Groot, Moderator Valerie Hopkins • 15:00 - 16:15 Special Event of The Balkan Dialogues Initiative: Belgrade- Pristina: No Trust, No Solution (In partnership with Balkan Trust for Democracy, a project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Royal Norwegian Embassy) Aleksandar Vucic , Avdullah Hoti, Miroslav Lajcak, Ryan Tully, Moderator Cameron Munter • 17:00 - 18:00 BSF Discussion: The World after the US Elections Karen Donfried , Ivana Stradner, Constantine Arvanitopoulos, Moderator Damir Marusic • 18:30 - 19:15 BSF Address: Populism in the 2020s: Beyond the Populist Zeitgeist Cas Mudde, Moderator Marko Savkovic Day 6, October 27 • 10:00 - 11:00 Partner Session: Defence cooperation beyond the alliance bor- ders: What can the Balkans learn from Nordic countries? Lt Col Egil Daltveit , Karsten Friis , Kenan Dautovic , Moderator Marija Ignjatijevic • 11:30 - 12:30 Partner Session: Role of values in politics-oriented media narra- tives: lessons for Western Balkans (in Partnership with the Warsaw Secu- rity Forum and with the support of Ministry of Foreign Aairs of Poland) Marija Ristic, Terry Martin, Lukasz Pawlowski, Moderator Bartlomiej Kot • 12:50 - 13.:50 Partner Session: Trust as a Social Capital UNDP Perspective Steliana Nedera, Aida Daguda, Svetlana Stefanovic , Ajsa Hadzibegovic, Moderator Alma Mirvic • 17:00 - 18:00 Partner Session: Technology, Trust and Legitimacy: An Uneasy Relationship (in Partnership with the UNDP) Niniane Paegen, Jovan Kurbalija , Hannes Grassegger, Marija Gavrilov, Moderator Slobodan Markovic • 18:30 - 19:30 Special Event: Future of Europe and the Western Balkans (in Partnership with the European Fund for the Balkans) Srdan Majstorovic, Simonida Kacarska , Reinhard Priebe, Nedim Hogic, Moderator Aleksandra Tomanic • 19:30 - 19:45 Closing Address.
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