Friday, 29 November 2024
UNIBO, Forlì Campus
10:30 Institutional Opening
- Francesco Niccolò Moro, Director of the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna
- Arrigo Pallotti, UOS delegate, Forlì Campus
11:00-13:30 Session I – The new Geography and Geopolitics of the Region and Beyond
Chair: Michela Ceccorulli, University of Bologna
- Tomas Niklasson, EU Special Envoy for Afghanistan, The European External Action Service (EEAS), EU’s Role in, and Relations with, Afghanistan
- Lorenzo Zambernardi, University of Bologna, The International Community and the Future of Afghanistan: Power as 'the ability to afford not to learn’
- Michele Brunelli, University of Bergamo, The Taliban’s Foreign Policy
- H.E. Ambassador Khaled A. Zekriya, The Geography of Talibanization
Lunch break
14:30-16:00 Session I – (Continuation)
Session II – The legal approach: What is left of the 2004 Afghan Constitution?
Chair: Giorgia Pavani, University of Bologna
- Bashir Mobasher, American University of Afghanistan, American University (DC), and New York University (online), Constitutional Law and the Politics of Ethnic Accommodation
- Ghizal Haress, Visiting Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada (online), From Past to the Future: Lessons from the 2004 Afghan Constitution for Shaping Future Constitutional Frameworks
- Lutfurahman Saeed, former Vice President of the Independent Commission for Overseeing the Implementation of 2004 Afghan Constitution, Visiting Scholar and Assistant Professor of Islamic Law at BYU Law School in Provo, Utah (online), Gender Justice in Islamic Sharia and in the 2004 Afghan Constitution
Coffee break
16:30-18:30 Session II – International Cooperation and Human Rights
Chair: Silvia Bagni, University of Bologna
- Huma Saeed, Senior Researcher, KU Leuven, Gender Justice and the Struggle of Afghan Women;
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- Alice Tusarelli, IOM, The Role of the IOM to Support Afghans in Afghanistan and in Neighboring Countries.
- Fatima Alrachid, refugee from Syria, Humanitarian Corridors: a testimony
Saturday, 30 November 2024
Embassy and Mission of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in Rome, Italy
10:30-13:00 Session IV – Women Rights: how to combat gender apartheid at international level?
Chair: Massimo Papa, University of Roma Tor Vergata
- Paolo Bargiacchi, University Enna Kore, Bringing Gender Persecution to the ICJ under the CEDAW: Australia et al. vs Afghanistan
- Deborah Scolart, University Orientale di Napoli, Vice and virtue as paradigms for limiting individual rights in Afghanistan
- Senator Cinzia Pellegrino, Senator of the Italian Republic, Gender Apartheid under the Taliban in Afghanistan
- Mathew Robinson, Director of Euro-Gulf Information Centre (EGIC) in Rome, How to Assist Afghan Women under the Taliban Regime in Afghanistan
Coffee break
13.30-14.00 Conclusion
Conclusion for the first day of the conference presented by Silvia Bagni and for the second day by Ambassador Khaled A. Zekriya
14.00-15.30
Afghan Lunch Buffet served at the Embassy and Mission of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.