Afghanistan under the Taliban: the new Geography and Geopolitics of the Region and Beyond

Third “International and Diplomatic Studies Conference on Afghanistan” - Hybrid Conference in Italian and English

from 29 November 2024 to 30 November 2024

Aula 12 Teaching Hub - Embassy and Mission of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in Rome - In presence and online event

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

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.