United Nations First Alliance of Civilizations Forum Participant List Opening Plenary Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned Chair, Qatar 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 Europe France Shirin Ebadi Nobel Laureate Ambassador Wonil Cho Iran Executive Director, Asia-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 United Arab Emirates 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 Al Jazeera 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 Saudi Arabia 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 Ghana/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 Africa 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,