ANNUAL REPORT 2017 BUILDING KNOWLEDGE FOR POLICY ANNUAL BUILDING REPORT KNOWLEDGE FOR 2017 POLICY Message from the Director General 2017 has been another year of considerable fluidity and high unpredictability for global and European affairs and of substantial instability in Greece’s extended neighborhood. Our research focused on several areas, including Greece’s role in a changing EU (and NATO), the huge migration challenge for both Greece and Europe, Greece’s foreign policy, with an emphasis on Turkey and its northern neighbors (in the latter there is some mobility in conflict resolution efforts), European integration and religious freedom. In this context, we continued to be quite active in the context of various networks, such as EuroMeSCo and the Mercator European Dialogue and projects, such as FEUTURE and New Pact for Europe. ELIAMEP received an Academy of Athens Award for the publication of its White Book on Greek Foreign Policy, Defence and Security but also for its overall contribution to the Greek and European public dialogue on foreign and European affairs. That honor convinced us that we need to focus more on strategic policy recommendations. Hence two documents are in preparation: an English language updated and revised edition of the White Book and the Greece 2021 National Strategy. 2018, our 30th anniversary, will find us older and wiser. It will be a good time for re-thinking and re-assessing our objectives and research methods and priorities. We are planning a number of initiatives, such as a large EU Simulation exercise for high school students from all over Greece and various conferences. We will be submitting several applications for projects, including a major proposal in the area of conflict prevention, management and resolution, where ELIAMEP has a long tradition and considerable experience, with its Halki International Seminars and the USIP training seminars. Finally, we will be completing our digital infrastructure upgrade and the re-construction of our offices, which will provide us with a larger, state of the art, multi-purpose meeting room. And, as always, we will be trying to identify and attract promising young scholars. Thanos Dokos ANNUAL BUILDING REPORT KNOWLEDGE FOR 2017 POLICY Milestones Academy of Athens gives award to ELIAMEP Following the publication of ELIAMEP White Book on Greek Foreign Policy, Defence and Security, the Academy of Athens gave an award to the Foundation. President of ELIAMEP, Professor Loukas Tsoukalis received the prize on 21 December 2017. Professor Loukas Tsoukalis said after the ceremony: ‘This prize is a great honor and recognition of ELIAMEP’s work in the last 30 years. Congratulations to all his members, associates and friends’. ANNUAL BUILDING REPORT KNOWLEDGE FOR 2017 POLICY RESEARCH European Integration The ‘A. G. Leventis Foundation Research Chair’ is a new research programme focusing on European political economy issues of Greek interest. The Chair is funded by the A.G. Leventis Foundation and has been in operation since October 2017. The New Pact for Europe Greek National Report is available here. Migration The “Mapping the training needs of beneficiaries of international protection and the existing mechanisms for training provision in five EU Member States (with focus on women)” National project report published. ELIAMEP participates in H2020 funded project “CEASEVAL - Evaluation of the Common European Asylum System under Pressure and Recommendations for Further Development”. Security and Regional Developments The publications of the project “Public Debate: Let’s Talk About Security” are now available. ELIAMEP is among the first research institutes to host a project funded by Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions- Individual Fellowships- Horizon 2020 Programme- in Social Sciences and Humanities. ANNUAL BUILDING REPORT KNOWLEDGE FOR 2017 POLICY Research Projects – European Integration Directions in Religious Pluralism in Europe: Examining Grassroots Mobilisations in the Shadow of European Court of Human Rights Religious Freedom Jurisprudence (GRASSROOTSMOBILISE) During 2017, Grassrootsmobilise’s fourth and penultimate year, the team’s focus was on drawing all fieldwork to a close, filling any remaining gaps in the data required for our analyses on the individual country cases, across the four cases, and within certain preselected themes, and moving into the main phase of dissemination of our research results. Effie Fokas also began a second round of interviews in the context of her research on ‘grasstops mobilizations’. Project Duration: 2014-2018 Funding agency: European Commission, European Research Council (ERC) Events 10-11 February, 2017 - Athens, Greece Grassrootsmobilise team’s 8th Research Meeting. 21 February, 2017 - Hellenic Observatory, London School of Economics (LSE), London Presentation by Effie Fokas and Margarita Markoviti on religious pluralism and education in Greece. 14 March, 2017 - Department of Sociology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Margarita Markoviti presented her recent research on ‘The Limits of Religious Diversity in the Public Sphere: Freedom of Religious Expression and Worship in the city of Athens’. 12 April, 2017 - Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES), University Institute of Lisbon Alberta Giorgi was invited to present her research on ‘The political impact of the European Court of Human Rights – religious movements’ grassroots mobilizations’. 4 May, 2017 - Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) World Convention, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York Margarita Markoviti and Ceren Ozgul presented aspects of their research relating to religious minorities and the ECtHR, with presentations on ‘The ECtHR as a venue for Greco-Turkish relations: The Treaty of Lausanne and the Muslim Minority in Western Thrace’ and ‘Religious Minorities without Legal Status: The Lausanne Treaty and the Right to Property Cases against Turkey in the ECtHR’ respectively. 7 May, 2017 - ‘The Kokkinakis Papers: Taking Stock of 25 years of ECHR Jurisprudence on Freedom of Religion or Belief‘ Conference, Central European University, Budapest Effie Fokas presented her Grassrootsmobilise-based research on ‘Kokkinakis at the Grassroots Level’. 9 May, 2017 - Institute for East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin Mihai Popa shared aspects of his research in a presentation entitled ‘Towards a Pro- Family Constitution: Dynamics of State-Religion Relations and Citizen Mobilization in Present-day Romania’. ANNUAL BUILDING REPORT KNOWLEDGE FOR 2017 POLICY 9-10 June 2017 - Workshop on ‘Religious freedom and the varieties of religious establishment’, Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen Effie Fokas presented a paper on ‘Religion and national identity on trial: the impact of the ECtHR on religious freedom at the grassroots level’. 5-7 July 2017 - International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) Annual Meeting, University of Copenhagen Grassrootsmobilise Panel on ‘The European Court of Human Rights at the Grassroots Level: Exploring the Court’s Role in Governing Religious Pluralism on the Ground’. 20 July, 2017 - Centre for Citizenship, Social Pluralism and Religious Diversity, University of Potsdam Mihai Popa discussed aspects of his Grassrootsmobilise research in his presentation entitled ‘Battlefield Romania: Activist Struggles for the Meaning of “Family” at the Interface between Legal Pluralism and Social Diversity’. 29 August – 1 September, 2017 - European Sociological Association (ESA) Conference, Panteion University of Social and Political Science and Harokopio University, Athens, Greece Alberta Giorgi shared her research on ‘Constraints and opportunities of ‘judicialization’: religious organizations’ mobilizations and the European Court of Human Rights’. 31 August – 3 September, 2017 - American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, San Francisco Grassrootsmobilise Panel on ‘Measuring Legitimacy at the Grassroots: Mobilizations in the Shadow of the ECtHR’. Grassrootsmobilise independent session with a number of distinguished academics also participating in the APSA conference and working on or around related issues. 24 September, 2017 - Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki Margarita Markoviti presented aspects of her research as part of the panel on ‘Religious Pluralism Now: Politics, Challenges, Success Stories’. Publications Religious Pluralism and Education in Greece’, Effie Fokas and Margarita Markoviti (LSE Hellenic Observatory blog, 1 March 2017) ‘Kokkinakis at the Grassroots Level’, Effie Fokas (Religion & Human Rights, 2017, 12(2-3), 210-222)) ‘God’s advocates: The multiple fronts of the war on blasphemy in Greece’, Effie Fokas (In eds. J.Temperman and A.Koltay, Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression: Comparative, Theoretical and Historical Reflections after the Charlie Hebdo Massacre, 2017) Journal Special Issue: The European Court of Human Rights and Minority Religions (Religion, State and Society, 2017, 45(3-4)): ‘The European Court of Human Rights and minority religions: messages generated and messages received’, Effie Fokas & James T. Richardson ‘The European Court of Human Rights at the Grassroots Level: who knows what about religion at the ECtHR, and to what effects?’, Effie Fokas ‘The ‘filtering effects’ of ECtHR case law on religious freedoms: legal recognition and places of worship for religious minorities in Greece’, Margarita Markoviti ‘‘Genuine’ religions and their arena of legitimation in Italy – the role of the ECtHR’, Alberta Giorgi & Pasquale