International Conference «For Our Freedom and Yours! For Our Common Future!»
13.00 - “Twenty Years after the End of the Cold War”.
Opening of open-air photo exhibition, showing the activities of movements for freedom in various Central and East European countries
Democratic Initiatives Foundation, Tovarystvo Leva.
Arrival of participants. Registration
16.00 – 17.00 – Official opening ceremony of the Conference
Nadia Diuk, National Endowment for Democracy, USA
Keynote address: Carl Gershman, National Endowment for Democracy, USA
17.00 – 18.30 – Introductory Session. The Culture of Democracy: Central and Eastern Europe’s Unique Contribution
Moderator: Carl Gershman, National Endowment for Democracy, USA
Monday, October 26, 2009
8.30 – 10.30 - Plenary Session: “Wroclaw 1989—Lviv 2009: “Veteran’s Panel” Twenty years of activity: What were our hopes? What did we learn?”
Venue: Assembly Hall of National University “Lvivska Politehnika”
Moderator: Nadia Diuk, National Endowment for Democracy, USA
Venue: Assembly Hall of National University “Lvivska Politehnika”
Moderator: Andrew Nagorski, EastWest Institute, USA
Hotel Dnister
14.30 – 16.30 - Parallel Working Groups
Venues: Hotel Dnister and Assembly Hall of the “Lvivska Politehnika” National University
Each group will discuss and prepare recommendations with a plan of action that will be presented at the summarising plenary sessions. These recommendations will be passed on to the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum of the EU in Brussels on 16-17 November 2009.
1) Governance, Rule of Law, Combating Corruption
Moderator: Maryana Demkova, Centre for Political and Legal Reforms, Ukraine
Moderator: Vahtang Kipiani, DIF, Ukraine
3) Culture and Religion
Moderator: Halyna Usatenko, Europe XXI Foundation, Ukraine
4) Russia and Central and Eastern Europe: Searching for a common Euro-Atlantic vision
Moderator: Andrew Nagorski, EastWest Institute, USA
17.00 – 18.30 – Plenary Session: International Responsibility and Approaches to Resolving Instability in the EU's Neighbourhood (Current situation in the Caucasus and Moldova, Bosnia and Kosovo. The extent and limitations to date of EU, US, NATO diplomacy)
Venue: Conference Hall at the Hotel Dnister
18.30 – 20.00 – Dinner for conference participants
20.00 - 21.00 – Lithuanian Miniature and Ukrainian Fresco on European Mosaics, or Travelling to 1429 and Back. (Documentary by LRT-RUNE MEDIA, Lithuania, 25 min., languages: Lithuanian, Ukrainian). The film talks about Ukraine‘s and Lithuania‘s join contribution to the process of unification of Europe and offers a historical perspective, analysis of the current state of European integration and a forecast for the future of Europe. The documentary received multiple awards in Luthiania, other EU states, Ukraine, and Canada. Unique video, valuable historical insights, professional comments.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
9.00 – 11.00 - Parallel Working Groups
Venue: Hotel Dnister and Assembly Hall of the “Lvivska Politehnika” National University
5) Security Challenges
Moderator: Inna Pidluska, Europe XXI Foundation, Ukraine
Moderator: Iryna Bekeshkina, Democratic Initiatives Foundation, Ukraine
Moderator: Svitlana Franchuk, Freedom House, Ukraine
8) Think Tanks and the Transformation of Society
11.30 – 13.30 – Round Table Discussion: “The State of Democracy in Former Soviet States ”(Central and East European Countries)”. Presentation of research results.
Venue: Hotel Dnister
Moderator: Halyna Usatenko, Europe XXI Foundation, Ukraine
9) Historical Memory, Civic Consciousness, Education, and Identity
Moderator: Marc Schleifer, CIPE, USA
15.00 -17.00 - Plenary Session: Summarizing the work of Working Groups
Venue: Hotel Dnister
17.00 – 18.30 - Final Plenary Session: Toward a Democratic Civilization …
18.30 Dinner
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Departure of participants
- March 24, 2009
A declaration of suicide or a path to a civilized world? (Polemics about an anti-NATO book) - September 15, 2009
An appeal of Ukraine's intellectuals, politicians and civic activists to parliaments, governments and peoples of the world - October 26, 2009
For Our Freedom and Yours! For Our Common Future! - October 26, 2009
V?clav Havel - October 26, 2009
Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski - October 26, 2009
Remarks by Carl Gershman, President of the NED - January 15, 2010
Description of the National Exit Poll 2010 project during the 2010 Presidential Elections in Ukraine - January 15, 2010
The National Exit Poll 2010 Oversight Council has been formed - January 15, 2010
Ukrainian users of social networks will be the first to learn the results of the exit polls - January 15, 2010
Support the National Exit Poll 2010!
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