Seychelles ‘ideal as human security study centre’ |14 May 2010
Mr Mancham said reconciliation and tolerance are pre-conditions for achieving the human security goal of “freedom from fear”. The conference will also consider the impact of the global crisis on achieving the other important human security goal of “freedom from want”, he added.
The round table is being organised by the European Centre for Peace Development (ECPD) of the University for Peace established by the United Nations in cooperation with the Conrad-Adenauer Foundation.
It will be chaired by Professor Takehiro Togo, president of the ECPD council, who is a professor at Tokai University, Tokyo, and a former Japanese ambassador to the Russian Federation, Singapore and the Republic of Turkey; by the Most Rev Hocevar Stanislav, Archbishop of Belgrade and Metropolitan; by Albert Maeas, EU ambassador and professor of the University of Namour, Belgium; Negoslav Ostojik, executive director of the ECPD; Christine Samandari-Hakim, Baha’i Association of Women for Development, Peace and Unity, New Delhi, India; Ambassador Darko Tanaskovic, professor of the University of Belgrade, Serbia; Azem Vllasi, former president of the Province of Kosovo and Ambassador Wolfgang Wolte of the Austrian Society for European Politics, Vienna.
After this conference Mr Mancham will move on to Berlin, where he will be among a group of distinguished people who have accepted the invitation of the German Institute for Cultural Diplomacy to speak at the International Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy 2010.
With the theme Culture, globalisation and international relations over the next two decades, it will be held from May 27-30.
Other key speakers include Ansar Burney, Pakistan’s former federal Minister for Human Rights; Philip Murphy, the United States ambassador to Germany; Kalonzo Musyoka, Vice-President of Kenya; Francesco Rutelli, former Deputy Prime Minister of Italy; Guido de Marco, former President of Malta and former President of the UN General Assembly; Joaquim Chissano, former President of Mozambique; and Kjell Magne Bondevik, former Prime Minister of Norway.
Mr Mancham, who will be accompanied by his wife Catherine, recently delivered a keynote address at Columbia University in New York on: US soft power and foreign policy seen from the perspective of a global citizen.