PROGRAMME as of 24 november 2020

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OPENING SESSION 10.00 - Giampiero Massolo, President, Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), Italy 10.30 , Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy cet

PANEL CHILD PROTECTION IN ARMED CONFLICT: ESTABLISHING A MEDITERRANEAN DIALOGUE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD

OPENING REMARKS AND CHAIR Laura Guercio, Universities Network for Promoting the Rights of Children in Armed Conflicts

KEYNOTE SPEECHES 11.30 Marina Sereni, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy - Virginia Gamba, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General 12.30 for Children and Armed Conflict cet PANEL DISCUSSION Inger Ashing, CEO, Save the Children International Veronique Aubert, Co-Chair, Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) Fausto Pocar, Honorary President, International Institute of Humanitarian Law Francesco Rocca, President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent

FORUM RELIGIONS HUMAN FRATERNITY & INCLUSIVE CITIZENSHIP in partnership with Adyan Foundation OPENING REMARKS Emanuela Del Re, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy

HUMAN FRATERNITY AND INTERRELIGIOUS ENGAGEMENT FOR PEACEFUL AND INCLUSIVE SOCIETIES Mohamed Abdel-Salam, Secretary General, Committee for Human Fraternity (former Advisor to the Grand Imam of Al Azhar) Jean-Marc Aveline, Archbishop of Marseille, France André Azoulay, Advisor to the King of Morocco 15.00 Nayla Tabbara, Cofounder and Vice President, Adyan Foundation, Lebanon - Chair: 17.00 Fabio Petito, Head, Religions and International Relations Programme, ISPI; cet University of Sussex, UK

RELIGION AND INCLUSIVE CITIZENSHIP IN THE EURO-MED SPACE Hassan Nadhem, Minister of Culture, Iraq Paul Gallagher, Secretary for Relations with States, Holy See Azza Karam, Secretary General, Religions for Peace Alberto Melloni, Director, John XXIII Foundation for Religious Studies (Fscire), Italy Miguel Angel Moratinos, High Representative, United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) Chair: Fadi Daou, President, Adyan Foundation, Lebanon opening/closings sessionss a night withs thursday forums forum by invitation onlys 26 november panelss report presentationss

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CONVERSATION | RETHINKING PROSPERITY GOOD GOVERNANCE, ACCOUNTABILITY AND INCLUSIVENESS IN THE SAHEL: HOW COULD THE EU HELP? 11.00 - Alpha Barry, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Burkina Faso 12.00 In conversation with cet Hannah Rae Armstrong, Senior Consulting Analyst for Sahel, ICG

PANEL | RETHINKING PROSPERITY BARCELONA !25: CITIES IN THE EURO-MEDITERRANEAN PARTNERSHIP in cooperation with CIBOB and Barcelona City Council Souad Abderrahim, Mayor of Tunis Ada Colau, Mayor of Barcelona 12.00 Dario Nardella, Mayor of Florence; President, Eurocities - Michèle Rubirola, Mayor of Marseille 13.00 Yousef Shawarbeh, Mayor of Amman cet Tunç Soyer, Mayor of İzmir Chair: Pol Morillas, Director, Cidob Paolo Magri, Executive Vice President, ISPI

DIALOGUE 14.00 Anwar Gargash, Minister of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs,United Arab Emirates (UAE) - In dialogue with 14.30 Marc Perelman, France 24 cet Monica Maggioni, Rai

PANEL | RETHINKING MIGRATION READY TO RESET? NEW MIGRATION PARTNERSHIP FOR A POST-PANDEMIC MEDITERRANEAN Luciana Lamorgese, Minister of the Interior, Italy Ylva Johansson, Commissioner for Home Affairs, European Commission Fathi Ali Abdul Salam Bashagha, Minister of the Interior, 16.00 Government of National Accord (GNA), Libya - António Vitorino, Director General, International Organization for Migration (IOM) 17.00 Evarist Bartolo, Minister for European and Foreign Affairs, cet Anže Logar, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Slovenia* Moderators: Hanne Beirens, Director, MPI Europe Paolo Magri, Executive Vice President, ISPI

DIALOGUE 17.30 Riyad Al Malki, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Palestine - In dialogue with 18.00 Lucia Goracci, Rai cet Hugh Lovatt, Policy Fellow, ECFR opening/closings sessionss a night withs friday forums forum by invitation onlys 27 november panelss report presentationss

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FORUM COOPERATION THE HEALTH-NUTRITION-AGRICULTURE NEXUS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN organized by CIHEAM IAM and Directorate General for Development Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs OPENING SESSION Emanuela Del Re, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy Maurizio Raeli, Director, CIHEAM Bari KEYNOTE SPEECH Bing Zhao, Director, Smallholder and Food Systems Support, World Food Programme (WFP) PANEL DISCUSSION 9.00 Ayoub Al Jawaldeh, Regional Advisor Nutrition for the Eastern Mediterranean, EMRO, - World Health Organization (WHO) 10.30 Monique Eloit, General Director, World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) cet Stefano Scarpetta, Director, Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Marcela Villarreal, Director, Partnerships and UN Collaboration Division, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Chair: Antonio Polito, Journalist, Corriere della Sera Q&A SESSION CONCLUSIONS Giorgio Marrapodi, Director General for Development Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy

PANEL | RETHINKING PROSPERITY TURNING CRISIS INTO OPPORTUNITY: FOSTERING A SUSTAINABLE RECOVERY FOR THE FUTURE

KEYNOTE SPEECH Guy Ryder, Director General, International Labour Organization (ILO) PANEL DISCUSSION 15.00 Hamad bin Sulaiman Al Bazai, Deputy Minister of Finance, Saudi Arabia - 16.30 Sultan Bin Rashid Al-Khater, Undersecretary, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Qatar cet Rania Al-Mashat, Minister of Tourism, Egypt Jeffrey Schlagenhauf,Deputy Secretary General, OECD Moderators: Amy Kellogg, Fox News Karim El Aynaoui, President, Policy Center for the New South, Morocco opening/closings sessionss a night withs monday forums forum by invitation onlys 30 november panelss report presentationss

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FORUM YOUTH

OPENING REMARKS * YOUTH CONTEST MANAGING THE PANDEMIC AND FINDING A POST-COVID RECOVERY STRATEGY 10 Mediterranean youths present their innovative ideas selected for the Youth Forum Contest 2020 Paola Ibrahim - project “COVID-19 Emergency Health Response in Syria” Roberto Renino - project “Lebanon’s Farmers Souk” Mahmoud Abd Rabu - project “Decentralized School System” Haidar Anbar - project “Design an integrated Sharing system to link the different medical facilities remotely with a central unit” Sofia Ditano - project “UNVEIL” 9.00 Tariq Al-Olaimy - project “Recipes for Wellbeing” - Bouchra Messaoudi - project “IRADA” 11.00 Marilena Maragkou - project “WE AfriHUG2021” cet Hala and Heba Nasreldin - project “Mediterranean Homeless Initiative” Hibad Shadi - project “Dronegency” Chaired by: Forsan Hussein, Zaitun Ventures Adel Hamaizia, Chatham House “ARAB YOUTH SURVEY” PRESENTATION Florence Gaub, Deputy Director, European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) * NOMINATION OF THE WINNERS OF THE YOUTH FORUM CONTEST CLOSING REMARKS Marina Sereni, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy

FORUM INFRASTRUCTURE | by invitation only 11.00 - RETHINKING INFRASTRUCTURE: 13.00 FOSTERING A STEADY AND SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC RECOVERY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN cet

CONVERSATION | RETHINKING PROSPERITY BEYOND THE SHOCK: 19 RETHINKING THE ENERGY INDUSTRY AFTER COVID- 11.30 Tarek El-Molla, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resource, Egypt - Joseph McMonigle, Secretary General, International Energy Forum (IEF) 12.30 Ihsan Abdul Jabbar Ismail, Minister of Oil, Iraq; Director General, Basra Oil Company cet Moderator: Andrea Cabrini, Managing Editor, Class CNBC

16.00 - FORUM POLICY PLANNERS | by invitation only 18.00 cet

PANEL | RETHINKING PROSPERITY GOING GREEN: MANAGING THE ENERGY TRANSITION IN POST-PANDEMIC TIMES Kadri Simson, Commissioner for Energy, European Commission Francesco La Camera, Director General, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) 16.30 Laura Cozzi, Chief Energy Modeler, International Energy Agency (IEA) - Michele Crisostomo, Chairman, ENEL 18.00 Tarik Hamane, Executive Director and Head of Development, Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (MASEN) cet Obaid Amrane, Chief Executive Officer, Ithmar Capital Idriss Moussaid Ahmed, Director of the European Affairs Department, Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA) Moderator: Guntram Wolff,Director, Bruegel opening/closings sessionss a night withs tuesday forums forum by invitation onlys 1 december panelss report presentationss

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FORUM CYBER | by invitation only 10.00 - CYBERSECURITY AND CAPACITY BUILDING: 12.00 PERSPECTIVES FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN AND GULF REGIONS cet

REPORT PRESENTATION CONFLICTS, PANDEMICS AND PEACEBUILDING NEW PERSPECTIVES ON SECURITY SECTOR REFORM IN THE MENA REGION organized in occasion of the joint report published by ISPI and DCAF 13.00 - Jennie Carignan, Commander, NATO Mission in Iraq * 14.00 Martin Griffiths, Special Envoy of the Secretary General for Yemen, UN * cet Yezid Sayigh, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Middle East Center Moderator: Gregg Carlstrom, Middle East Correspondent, The Economist *

PANEL | RETHINKING SECURITY MARE OMNIUM: A SHARED APPROACH TO MEDITERRANEAN SECURITY

OPENING REMARKS Marina Sereni, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy SESSION I | BUILDING PEACE Marwa Daoudy, Associate Professor, Georgetown University; Author “The Origin of the Syrian Conflict, Climate Change and Human Security” Geir O. Pedersen, Special Envoy for Syria, United Nations Mohamed Taher Syala, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Libya* Stephanie Williams, Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya, United Nations 14.30 Moderators: - Monica Maggioni, Rai 16.30 cet Ian Lesser, Vice President, German Marshall Fund

SESSION II | STABILIZING THE REGION , Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cyprus Claudio Graziano, Chairman, Military Committee, European Union Ján Kubiš, Special Coordinator for Lebanon, United Nations Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, United Nations Olivér Varhélyi, Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, European Commission Matthew A. Palmer, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State * Moderators: James McGann, University of Pennsylvania Riccardo Chartroux, Rai

DIALOGUE Ahmed Omar Maiteeq, Vice Chairman of the Presidential Council (PC), 17.00 Government of National Accord (GNA), Libya - In dialogue with 17.30 cet Mary Fitzgerald, Freelance Journalist Arturo Varvelli, Director, Rome Office, ECFR

A NIGHT WITH 18.00 Aeham Amad, Syrian Pianist - Interviewed by 19.00 cet Maria Cuffaro,TG3 Rai opening/closings sessionss a night withs wednesday forums forum by invitation onlys 2 december panelss report presentationss

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PANEL THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA IN 2030: TRENDS AND FORESIGHTS organized in occasion of the joint report published by ISPI and RIAC Andrey Kortunov, 10.00 Director, RIAC - Paolo Magri, Executive Vice President, ISPI 11.00 Elham Fakhro, Senior Analyst, Gulf States, International Crisis Group cet Tarik Yousef, Director, Brookings Doha Center Chair: Florence Gaub, Deputy Director, European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

PANEL | RETHINKING SECURITY FROM PUBLIC TO CRIME GOVERNANCE: HOW CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS CHALLENGE THE STATE IN THE TIME OF PANDEMIC Alessandro Barbera, Brigadier General and Commander, Central Investigation Service 11.30 on Organised Crime, Guardia di Finanza * - Alfredo Durante Mangoni, Coordinator for Anticorruption, Chair G20 Anti-Corruption 12.30 Working Group (ACWG), Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation cet Marco Hannappel, President and Managing Director, Philip Morris Italia Angela Me, Chief of the Research and Trend Analysis Branch, UNODC

DIALOGUE 14.00 Ayman Safadi, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Jordan - In dialogue with 14.30 Ugo Tramballi, Senior Advisor, ISPI cet Margherita Stancati, Wall Street Journal

PANEL | RETHINKING SECURITY A TALE OF TWO SHORES: ENVISIONING A NEW SECURITY ARCHITECTURE IN THE GULF Sayyid Badr Bin Hamad Bin Hamood Al Busaidi, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Oman Mohammad Al-Hadhrami, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yemen Nayef Falah Mubarak Al Hajraf, Secretary General, Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) 15.00 Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al Sabah, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kuwait - Abdullatif Bin Rashid Al Zayani, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bahrain 16.30 Rafael Grossi, Director General, The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) cet Fuad Hussein, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iraq Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Secretary General of the Arab League * Moderators: Julien Barnes-Dacey, Director, Middle East & North Africa programme, ECFR Maria Gianniti, Rai 1 opening/closings sessionss a night withs wednesday forums forum by invitation onlys 2 december panelss report presentationss

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CONVERSATION Claudio Descalzi, CEO, ENI 17.00 - In conversation with 17.30 Bassam Fattouh, Director, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies cet

CONVERSATION Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, Secretary General, Origanization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) 18.00 - In conversation with 18.30 Meghan L. O’Sullivan, Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs; cet Director of the Geopolitics of Energy Project, Harvard University’s Kennedy School, USA opening/closings sessionss a night withs thursday forums forum by invitation onlys 3 december panelss report presentationss

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PANEL | RETHINKING SECURITY PEOPLE FIRST: THE HUMAN SECURITY PARADIGM IN A TIME OF PANDEMIC Ahmed Al-Mandhari, Director, Regional Office for Eastern Mediterranean, World Health Organization (WHO) Baiba Braze, Assistant Secretary General, NATO Qu Dongyu, Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) 10.00 - Washio Eiichiro, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Japan 11.30 Serwan Esmaeil, Secretary General, Council of Representatives, Iraq * cet Wu Hongbo, Special Representative of the Chinese Government on European Affairs, China Nasser Kamel, Secretary General, Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) Moderators: Dlawer Ala’aldeen, President, Middle East Research Institute (MERI) Enrica Toninelli, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, RaiNews

FORUM PARLIAMENTARY | by invitation only 10.00 COVID-19, NOTHING WILL BE THE SAME AS BEFORE: - THE ROLE OF PARLIAMENTS IN REBUILDING DEVELOPMENT 12.00 AND SECURITY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN cet

DIALOGUE 12.00 Mohammad Javad Zarif, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Iran - In dialogue with 12.30 cet Paolo Magri, Executive Vice President, ISPI

DIALOGUE Charbel Wehbé, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants, Lebanon * 14.00 - In dialogue with 14.30 Maria Cuffaro,Rai cet Matthew Karnitschnig, Europe Correspondent, Politico

FORUM WOMEN COVID-19 AND HUMAN SECURITY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION

OPENING REMARKS Elisabetta Belloni, Secretary General, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy

SESSION I 15.00 BUILDING BACK BETTER: - WOMEN’S ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT DURING COVID-!9 AND BEYOND 17.00 cet Ilaria Capua, Director, One Health Center of Excellence, University of Florida, USA Ranieri Guerra, Assistant Director-General, WHO Andreas Schaal, Director Global Relations, OECD Nadia Shahin, General Manager, Kawar Group, Jordan Chair: Marta Dassù, Senior Advisor European Affairs and Editor-in-chief of Aspenia, Aspen Institute Italia; President, Women Empower the World - WE, Italy opening/closings sessionss a night withs thursday forums forum by invitation onlys 3 december panelss report presentationss

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DEBATE

SESSION II CONFLICTS, MIGRATION AND COVID-19 IN THE MENA REGION: WHAT ROLE FOR WOMEN IN PEACEBUILDING? Stephanie Williams, Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General (ASRSG) for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya * Ouided Bouchamaoui, Nobel Peace Prize 2015 (co-laureate); Past President, Utica, Tunisia Carmela Godeau, Regional Director, MENA Region, IOM Cairo 15.00 Begoña Lasagabaster, Country Representative in Tunisia and Libya, UN Women - Chair: 17.00 cet Gianluca Alberini Principal Director for the United Nations and Human Rights, Directorate General for Political Affairs and Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy

DEBATE

CLOSING REMARKS Marina Sereni, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy

PANEL AIMING AHEAD: NEW SECURITY TRENDS AND THE FUTURE OF THE DEFENCE INDUSTRY OPENING REMARKS 17.00 Lorenzo Guerini, Minister of Defence, Italy - 18.00 John R. Allen, President, Brookings Institution cet Alessandro Profumo, CEO, Leonardo Chair: Giampiero Massolo, President, ISPI

REPORT PRESENTATION THE POLITICS OF PANDEMICS: EVOLVING REGIME-OPPOSITION DYNAMICS IN THE MENA REGION organized in occasion of the joint report published by ISPI and ATLANTIC COUNCIL

Chris Murphy, US Senator from Connecticut * 18.00 Ghassan Salamé, UN Former Special Representative for Libya - Abbas Khadim, 19.00 Senior Fellow & Iraq Initiative Director, Atlantic Council cet Kristina Kausch, Senior Fellow, German Marshall Fund Dalia Ghanem, Resident Scholar, Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center * Chair: Karim Mezran, Resident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council opening/closings sessionss a night withs friday forums forum by invitation onlys 4 december panelss report presentationss

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DIALOGUE 9.00 Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Minister of Foreign Affairs, India - In dialogue with 9.30 Ugo Tramballi, Senior Advisor, ISPI cet Françoise Nicolas, IFRI

DIALOGUE 9.30 Charles Michel, President, European Council * - In dialogue with 10.00 cet Paolo Magri, Executive Vice President, ISPI

DIALOGUE 10.00 Paolo Gentiloni, Commissioner for Economy, European Commission - In dialogue with 10.30 Guntram Wolff, Director, Bruegel cet Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli, Milan Correspondent, Financial Times

DIALOGUE 10.30 Othman Jerandi, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Migration and Tunisians Abroad, Tunisia - In dialogue with 11.00 cet Stefano Polli, Deputy Director, ANSA

DIALOGUE Fontelles, High Representative For Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, European Union In dialogue with 11.30 Robert Malley, President and CEO, International Crisis Group (ICG) * - Daniela Schwarzer, Director, DGAP * 12.00 cet Maha Yahya, Director, Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center * Chair: Paolo Magri, Executive Vice President, ISPI

PANEL LOOKING SOUTH: THE EU AND THE MEDITERRANEAN Luigi Di Maio, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy Arancha Gonzalez Laya, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Spain * 12.00 Jean Yves Le Drian, Minister of Foreign Affairs, France - 13.00 , Minister of Foreign Affairs, Germany * cet , Minister of Foreign Affairs, Poland * In dialogue with Matthew Karnitschnig, Europe Correspondent, Politico Giampiero Massolo, President, ISPI opening/closings sessionss a night withs friday forums forum by invitation onlys 4 december panelss report presentationss

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DIALOGUE 14.30 Sabri Boukadoum, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Algeria * - In dialogue with 15.00 Canan Atilgan, KAS cet Maria Cuffaro,Rai

DIALOGUE 15.00 Nasser Bourita, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Kingdom of Morocco - In dialogue with 15.30 Pol Morillas, Director, Cidob cet Viviana Mazza, Corriere della Sera

DIALOGUE 16.00 Sergey Vitorich Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation - In dialogue with 16.30 Thomas Gomart, Director, IFRI cet Maurizio Caprara, Corriere della Sera

DIALOGUE Prince Faisal Bin Farhan Al Saud, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 16.30 In dialogue with - 17.00 William F. Wechsler, Director, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East cet and Middle East Programs, Atlantic Council Lucia Annunziata, Rai 3

CLOSING SESSION 17.00 Giampiero Massolo, President, Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), Italy - Luigi Di Maio, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy 18.00 cet Giuseppe Conte, President of the Council of Ministers, Italy