ECPD conference programme

EUROPEAN CENTER FOR PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT (ECPD) UNIVERSITY FOR PEACE EST. BY THE UNITED NATIONS XI ECPD International Conference on

FUTURE OF THE WORLD BETWEEN GLOBALIZATION AND REGIONALIZATION Belgrade (City Hall) 24-25 October, 2015

TENTATIVE AGENDA Saturday, October 24, 2015 09:00 09:30

Registration of the participants

09:30-10:30

OPENING CEREMONY

CHAIRMAN’S OPENING ADDRESS Prof. Dr. Akio Kawato, Kawato President of the ECPD Council WELCOME ADDRESS Sir James Mancham, Mancham Founding President of the Republic of Seychelles; President, Global Peace Council KEYNOTE SPEAKER ER Prof. Dr. Erhard Busek, Busek Vice-Chancellor of Austria a.d.

(Ad personam Jean Monnet Chair) 10.30 – 10:45 Discussion 10:45-12:00

FIRST PLENARY SESSION GLOBALIZATION THROUGH POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, CULTURAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT

Chairmen: Speakers:

Prof. Dr. Erhard Busek / Sir James Mancham Prof. Dr. Akio Kawato, Kawato President of the ECPD Council “Salient Salient Trends in the World as seen from Japan” Japan Prof. Dr. Roberto Savio, President Emeritus, IPS, Italy “Global Challenge for our Transition Times” Times Prof. Dr. Horst Mahr, Chairman, Foreign Affairs Association, Munich, Germany “Europe in an increasingly complex World” Prof. Dr. Yoji Koyama, Niigata University Japan “Economic Economic Integration, Competition and Cooperation at the Balkans” Prof. Dr. Jožef Kunič, Slovenian Association for International Relations “Facing Facing Global Challenges through Regionalization” Regionalization Prof. Dr. Marjan Svetličić, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia “Are Economic Integration and Political Disintegration Two Contrary Processes?

Processes “ Prof. Dr Raoul Weiler, Weiler Institute of Climate Change, Belgium “The Nature Integration and Disintegration is One of Basic Principles““ Prof. Dr. Bojana Berić, Long Island University, USA “Connecting the Balkans and the Global Society by Addressing the UN SDGs #17 and #5 Prof. Dr.. Igor Kondrashin, Kondrashin World Philosophical Forum, Greece “Socialization of the Humanity through Uniform Civic Education” Prof. Dr. Christo Kaftandjiev, Kaftandjiev Professor, Sofia University, Bulgaria “Globalization Communicative Bridge. The Future of the World between Globalization and Regionalization (on the basis of Advertising)” Advertising) Discussion

12:00-12:15

Coffee Break

ECPD DANUBIAN CENTER FOR CROSS BORDER COOPERATION (DCCBC)

CITY OF BELGRADE

ECPD INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR LOCAL ECP AN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT (ICLRD) AND

EUROPEAN CENTER FOR PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT (ECPD) UNIVERSITY FOR PEACE EST. BY THE UNITED NATIONS 12:15-14:00

SECOND PLENARY SESSION MACRO REGIONALIZATION IN THE WAY OF GLOBALIZATION AS A WORLD PROCESS

Chairman:

Prof. Dr. Don Wallace / Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wolte

Prof. Dr. Reinhard Priebe, Priebe Professor ECPD UPUN, Former Director for Balkans in DG Enlargement, European Commission “Regionalization within the European Union” Prof. Dr. Pasquale Baldocci, Baldocci Professor of the Faculty for Diplomacy, Gorizia, Italy “Some Some Proposals to Revitalize the European Project Turned into a Sleeping Beauty Nobody Dares to Wake” Wake Prof. Dr. Slavica Đukić Dejanović, President of the Board of Health and Family, Parliament of the Republic of Serbia “Mental Mental Health of Nations as a Linking Factor of World Trends between Globalization and Regionalization” Regionalization Prof. Dr. Miodrag Vuković, President, Committee for International Relations and European Integrations, Parliament of Montenegro “Balkan (Montenegro Montenegro) – The Challenges of Global Terrorism (ISIL)” Prof. Dr. Silvo Devetak, University of Maribor, Slovenia “The Role of OSCE in the Future Processes of Stabilization and Democratic Development in the European Space” Prof. Dr. Nikola Popovski, Popovski Faculty of Economics and Organization of Entrepreneurship, International Slavic University, Macedonia "Is Globalization Swallowing the Regionalism?" ‘ Prof. Dr. Vern Redekop, Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Canada “Creating Conditions for Emergent Blessing in the Western Balkans: New Response to Complex Challenges” Prof. Dr. Jovan Manasijevski, Center for Security Studies, Skopje “Rebalancing Bilateralism and Inter-Regionalism: Inter egionalism: Opportunity for Reframing the EU-Russia EU Relations” Prof. Dr. Nano Ružin, Dean, Faculty of Political Sciences, FON University, Skopje “Balkan Stereotypess” Dr. Nikolay Tomov, Tomov Executive Director Slavyani Foundation “Southeastern Europe: When does does Regionalization Succumb to Globalization” Dr. Myrianne rianne Coen, Coen Counsellor of Swiss Embassy, Italy “Mass Migration as a Symptom: The Roots of Chaos” Dr. Toshko Angela Krastev, President, European Polytechnic University, Sofia “Problems Problems and Possibilities for Cooperation in EuroAzia on Higher Education” Education Discussion 14:00-15:30 Break 15:30 - 17:30 THIRD PLENARY SESSION THE BALKANS AS A EUROPEAN SUBREGION Chairmen: Prof. Dr. Reinhard Priebe / Prof. Dr. Boris Shmelev Speakers: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wolte, Wolte Austrian Society for European Policy “Globalization, Globalization, European Union and the Social Dimension” Dimension Prof. Dr. Arthur Lyon Dahl, Professor, UNEP University of Geneva, Switzerland “The Sustainable Development Goals and their Implications in the Western Balkans” Prof. Dr Dimitar Mirčev, Mirčev Advisor to the President of Macedonia, University “Sts. Cyril and Methodius”, Skopje “Does the Balkans have Capacity for Globalization” Prof. Dr. Nobuhiro buhiro Shiba, Deputy Director of the Josai Institute for Central European Studies “Comparing g the Way of Reconciliation through through History Education in the Western Balkans and East Asia: from the Viewpoint of Human Security Building” Building Prof. Dr. Vjekoslav Domljan, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina erzegovina “What What Encourages Regional Integration - Lessons from Development Corridors” Corridors Speakers:

ECPD DANUBIAN CENTER FOR CROSS BORDER COOPERATION (DCCBC)

CITY OF BELGRADE

ECPD INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR LOCAL ECP AN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT (ICLRD) AND

EUROPEAN CENTER FOR PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT (ECPD) UNIVERSITY FOR PEACE EST. BY THE UNITED NATIONS Prof. Dr. Ezio Benedetti, Benedetti University of Trieste, Italy “European European Union Conditionality on Human Rights and Enlargement Process of the EU to the Western Balkans” Balkans Prof. Dr Jove Kekenovski, Kekenovski University "St.Kliment Ohridski" - Ohrid FRY Macedonia “Macedonia against gainst the Refugee Crisis and the Lack of Coordination, Lack of Principles and the Unpreparedness of the European Union” Prof. Dr. Alexander A. Kornilov, Kornilov Institute of International Relations and World History Studies “Regionalization and Civilization Rifts in Contemporary World: Tests and new Solutions” Discussion 17:30 - 17:45

Coffee Break

17:45 - 19:00

FORTH PLENARY SESSION COMPARISONS IN THE SOCIAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS BETWEEN ASEAN AND THE BALKAN REGIONS Prof. Dr. Akio Kawato / Academician Prof. Dr. Vlado Kambovski Prof. Dr. Akio Kawato, Kawato President ECPD Council “ASEAN’s Case - Loose Unity in Economy and Politics” Politics Dr. Naohiro Kitano, Deputy Director, JICA Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan “ASEAN Economic Integration and JICA’s Role in it” Prof. Dr. Mie Oba, Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan “Experiences Experiences of the ASEAN Countries in the Reconciliation and Development” Development Mr. Toshio Abe,, Resident Representative, JICA Balkan Office “JICA JICA Activities in the Balkans” Balkans Prof. Dr Ljubomir Kekenovski, Kekenovski St. Cyril and Methodius University, FRY Macedonia “Macedonia as Region between the Ottoman and EU Supra Structure-Economic Economic Logic and National Confrontations” Prof. Dr. Tatyana Issyk, Issy Almaty Management University, Kazakhstan “Tolerance Tolerance as a Way for Development of a Country Count (Kazakhstan)” Prof. Dr. Irina Chudoska, Chudoska FON University, Skopje “The Global Mergers and Acquisition Market” Discussion

Chairmen: Speakers:

19:00-19:30

Promotion of the book “Seychelles - The Saga of a Small Nation Navigating the CrossCross Currents of a Big World” by Sir James Mancham

Speakers:

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wolte / Prof. Dr. Dr Pasquale Baldocci

19:30 – 21:00 RECEPTION hosted by Prof. Dr. Akio Kawato, President of the ECPD Council Prof. Dr. Don Wallace, President of the ECPD Academic Council Prof. Dr. Negoslav Ostojić, ECPD Executive Director Concert by Ensemble RENAISSANCE Sunday, October 25, 2015 09:00 - 10:30 FIFTH PLENARY SESSION CONCLUDING SPEECH Prof. Dr. Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Director General UNESCO a.d.

A VIEW TO THE FUTURE AND RECOMMENDATIONS Chairman’s Conclusions 11:00

OPENING OF THE THIRD ECPD INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FORUM

Speeches: are limited to 10 minutes, additional topics for discussions 3 to 5 minutes Working language: English and Serbian Serb - simultaneous translation provided

ECPD DANUBIAN CENTER FOR CROSS BORDER COOPERATION (DCCBC)

CITY OF BELGRADE

ECPD INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR LOCAL ECP AN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT (ICLRD) AND