Agenda
All sessions, except for Session 7, are held under the Chatham House Rule
25 November (Wednesday)
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16.00-16.20 |
Welcome remarks Yauheni Preiherman Director, Minsk Dialogue Council on International Relations, Belarus Jakob Wöllenstein Director Country Office Belarus, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Germany
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16.20-16.30 |
Presentation of the Forum report In partnership with PACT Dzianis Melyantsou Programme Coordinator, Minsk Dialogue Council on International Relations, Belarus Siarhei Bohdan Fellow, Friedrich Meinecke Institute of History, Freie Universität Berlin; Expert Council member, Minsk Dialogue Council on International Relations, Germany-Belarus
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16.30-18.00 |
Session 1. The World HandCOV’d: Major state actors and stakeholders in East European security In partnership with the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Thomas Graham Distinguished Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Senior Advisor, Kissinger Associates, USA Nadezhda Arbatova Head, Department for European Political Studies, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Amelie Stelzner Policy Advisor for Armed Forces and Society, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Germany Zhang Xin Associate Professor, School of Advanced International and Area Studies; Deputy Director, Centre for Russian Studies, East China Normal University, China Paul Révay Member of the Board of Trustees, “Friends of Europe” (Belgium), France Zachary Paikin Senior Visiting Fellow, Global Policy Institute (London); Senior editor, Global Brief Magazine, Canada Moderator Jakob Wöllenstein Director Country Office Belarus, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Germany
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18.15-19.45 |
Session 2. The World HandCOV’d: Major multilateral actors and stakeholders in East European security In partnership with the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Andrey Zagorskiy Head of Department of Arms Control and Conflict Resolution Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations; Professor, MGIMO-University, Russia Mona Ali Khalil Director, MAK LAW INTERNATIONAL; Affiliate of the Harvard Law School Programme on in International Law and Armed Conflict; former UN Senior Legal Officer Wolfgang Richter Senior Associate, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Germany Samuel Charap Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation, USA Benno Zogg Senior Researcher, Centre for Security Studies, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Moderator Yulia Nikitina Associate Professor and Research Fellow, Centre for the Post-Soviet Studies at the Moscow State University of International Relations (MGIMO), Russia |
26 November (Thursday)
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15.45-15.55 |
Presentation. Geopolitical orientations in Belarusian public opinion. Andrey Vardamatsky Sociologist, Belarus
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16.00-17.30 |
Session 3. Belarus Crisis: Implications for Belarus-Russia relations In partnership with the MGIMO Institute for International Studies Aleh Makarau Director, Belarusian Institute for Strategic Research, Belarus Elena Kuzmina Head, Section for Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russia Andrey Rusakovich (TBC) Associate Professor, Belarusian State University; Chairman of Board, Centre for Foreign Policy and Security Studies, Belarus Sergey Markedonov Leading Researcher, Euro-Atlantic Security Centre, Institute of International Studies at MGIMO University; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of International Analytics, Russia Pavel Daneiko CEO, IPM Business School, Belarus Igor Okunev Director, Centre for Spatial Analysis in International Relations, MGIMO University, Russia Moderator Andrey Sushentsov Director, Institute of International Studies at MGIMO University; Programme Director, Valdai Discussion Club, Russia
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17.45-19.15 |
Session 4. Belarus Crisis: Implications for Belarus-West relations In partnership with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Eugene Rumer Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, USA Elena Korosteleva Professor of International Politics, Director of the Global Europe Centre, University of Kent, UK Kateryna Bornukova Academic Director, BEROC Economic Research Centre, Belarus Andris Spruds Director, Latvian Institute of International Affairs, Latvia Dzianis Melyantsou Programme Coordinator, Minsk Dialogue Council on International Relations, Belarus Moderator Valeriya Klymenko Programme Coordinator, FES Belarus, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
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27 November (Friday) |
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15.00-16.15 |
Session 5. Belarus Crisis: Implications for regional security in Eastern Europe Vygaudas Ušackas Member of the Board, Avia Solutions Group; former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania; former EU Ambassador to Russia, Lithuania Andrey Sushentsov Director, Institute of International Studies at MGIMO University; Programme Director, Valdai Discussion Club, Russia Anna Maria Dyner Analyst, Polish Institute for International Affairs (PISM), Poland Hanna Shelest Editor-in-Chief, UA: Ukraine Analytica, Ukraine Yauheni Preiherman Founder and Director, Minsk Dialogue Council on International Relations, Belarus Moderator Jakob Wöllenstein Director Country Office Belarus, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Germany
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16.15-17.30 |
Session 6. Belarus Crisis: Implications for regional security in Wider Eurasia In partnership with the GCFR COMPASS project Viktar Shadurski Dean, Faculty of International Relations, Belarusian State University, Belarus Anar Valiyev Dean, School of Public and International Affairs, ADA University, Azerbaijan Cholpon Turdalieva Professor, American University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan Montu Saxena Director, Cambridge Central Asia Forum, University of Cambridge, UK Farrukh Salimov Head, Department of Dipomacy and Foreign Policy, Tajik National University, Tajikistan Ulugbeck Khasanov Chair, International Relations Department, University of World Economics and Diplomacy, Uzbekistan Moderator Elena Korosteleva Professor of International Politics, Director of the Global Europe Centre, University of Kent, UK
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17.45-19.15 |
Session 7. Eastern Europe in 2021: Strategic stability and challenges for regional security In partnership with the European Leadership Network Stefano Stefanini Former Permanent Representative of Italy to NATO; former Diplomatic Advisor to the President of Italy; ELN Executive Board member, Italy Philip Breedlove Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, USA Oksana Antonenko Director, Global Risk Analysis, Control Risks Group; Global Fellow, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Centre for Scholars, UK Moderator Julia Berghofer Policy Fellow, European Leadership Network
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19.15 -19.30 |
Concluding remarks |
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https://minskdialogue.by/en/forum
