| Date/Time | 28 January 2007 (Sun.) 10:30-20:30 (Doors open 10:00-) |
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| Venue | Tokyo Green Palace, Nibancho 2, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0084 Access Map |
| Organizers | “Advanced Studies for Building Peace” Project (supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, coordinator: Hidemitsu Kuroki(ILCAA)) The Research and Educational Project for Middle East and Islamic Studies at TUFS |
| With the Cooperation of | NIHU Program: Islamic Area Studies -Unit of the University of Tokyo Comparative Studies on Transnational socio-political movements in contemporary Asia and Africa (Grand-in-Aid for Scientific Research(A), JSPS: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies） |
| Admission free/ No registration required/ Simultaneous Interpretation provided |
| 10:00- | Doors Open |
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| 10:30-10:45 | Hidemitsu Kuroki (Professor, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Welcome Remarks and Preamble |
| 1. Session of Cyprus and Lebanon Chair : Makoto Kobayashi (Professor, Yokohama City University) |
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| 10:45-11:15 | Andreas Theophanous (Professor, Intercollege, Cyprus) “Revisiting the Cyprus Question: The Challenge and the Promise” |
| 11:15-11:30 | Discussion |
| 11:30-12:00 | Lokman Slim (Director, Umam Documentation and Research, Lebanon) “Democracy Divided: Unlearned Lessons from Lebanon” |
| 12:00-12:15 | Discussion |
| 12:15-13:30 | Lunch Break & Coffee Break |
| 2. Session of Former Yugoslavia Chair : Yuji Ishida (Professor, University of Tokyo) | |
| 13:30-14:00 | Tetsuya Sahara (Associate Professor, Meiji University) “Yugoslav Wars of Succession: Chaotic Nationalism or Nationalization of Chaos?” |
| 14:00-14:30 | Hidajet Repovac (Professor, Sarajevo University, Bosnia and Herzegovina) “Ethnic Conflicts on the Balkans – Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina” |
| 14:30-14:50 | Discussion |
| 14:50-15:05 | Coffee Break |
| 3. Session of Iraq and Israel/Palestine Chair : Keiko Sakai (Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) | |
| 15:05-15:35 | Hala Fattah (Former Director, American Academic Research Institute in Iraq, Jordan) “Ethnicity, Sectarianism and the Nation in Iraq : A Very Personal Point of View” |
| 15:35-15:50 | Discussion |
| 15:50-16:20 | Ahmad Sa’di (Professor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) “Advocating “Transfer” : The Liberman Epiphenomenon” |
| 16:20-16:35 | Discussion |
| 16:35-16:50 | Coffee Break |
| 4. Session of Comments and Discussion Chair : Jun Furuya (Professor, Hokkaido University) |
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| 16:50-17:20 | Comment1 : Taro Tsukimura (Professor, Kobe University) |
| 17:20-17:40 | Comment2 : Hiroyuki Tosa (Professor, Kobe University) |
| 17:40-18:30 | Discussion |
| 18:30-20:30 | Reception |
