European Leadership Conference: “Europe and Russia – Partners in a Globalized World”
October 12th and 13th, 2012, Vienna International Centre (U.N. Building) &  NH Danube Hotel

The Universal Peace Federation (UPF) in cooperation with the Women’s Federation for World Peace and the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) Vienna cordially invite you to attend our European Leadership Conference  “Europe and Russia – Partners in a Globalized World” on Friday October 12th and Saturday 13th 2012.

Sessions will cover a number of topics:

Russia and the European Dream

Values, Visions, Identity - Mobility and Cultural Plurality in Europe and Russia

Towards a Culture of Peace – Europe and Russia after WWII
Women in Leadership Roles in the 21st Century

The Future of Europe and Russia – a Youth Perspective

Education for Global Leadership and Sustainable Peace

The conference is part of a series of European Leadership Conferences on issues of pressing concern for Europe and the world, held at the United Nations in Geneva and Vienna, UNESCO in Paris, National Parliaments in the United Kingdom and Norway, and in the Presidential Palace in Malta. We expect participants from all over Europe and have invited a delegation of politicians, academics, NGO and youth representatives from Russia and former Soviet Union nations in response to their kind invitation to Moscow in April of this year for a conference entitled, “Russia-Europe Dialogue - Peace and Security in Multicultural Societies at a Time of Global Crisis”. (A full report can be read at this link )


Thursday, 11th October

Afternoon and Evening:  Arrivals and Registration

Friday, 12th October - Vienna International Centre (U.N. Building)

07:30           Breakfast at the hotel

09:00           Check in at the Vienna International Centre

09:30           SESSION I: Europe and Russia - Partners in a Globalized World
H.E. Sergey Nechaev, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Austria
Dr. Yong Cheon Song, Chairman, UPF Europe
Dr. Thomas Walsh, President of UPF International    
Dr. Hannes Swoboda, Chair of Socialists and Social Democrats - European Parliament
H.E. Dr. Anwar Azimov, Ambassador at Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

10:30           Break

11:00              SESSION II: Russia and the European Dream
Dr. Walter Schwimmer, former Secretary General of the Council of Europe (TBC)
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Mangott , University of Innsbruck
Dr. Henri Malosse, President Employers' Group, European Economic and Social Council
Mr. Nikolai Komarov, Director of “Moscow House of Nationalities”, a Member of Expert Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

12:30           Lunch break

14:30           SESSION IV: Towards a Culture of Peace - Europe and Russia after WWII
Dr. Werner Fasslabend, Minister of Defence Austria (1990-2000)
Dr. Svetlana Karepova , Vice Director of the Institute of Socio-Political Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Dr. Jan Csarnogursky, Prime Minister of Slovakia (1991–1992)
Dr. Marcel de Haas, Senior Research Associate, Netherlands Inst. of Internat. Relations ‘Clingendael’
Mr. Sergey Kuchinsky, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Council of the Assembly of the Peoples of Russia

16:00           Break

16:30           SESSION III: Values, Visions, Identity and Cultural Plurality

Dr. Erhard Busek, Vice Chancellor of the Republic of Austria (1991-1995)
Christian Rathner, Austrian National TV, Religion department
Dr. Willem Van Eekelen, former WEU Secretary General and Defence Minister of the Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Irina Orlova, Head, Department of Sociology and Comparative Researches, Institute of Socio-Political Researches of Russian Academy of Sciences     

18:00           Dinner for international hotel guests

Saturday 13th October - NH Danube City

07:30           Breakfast and Check-out

09:30           SESSION V: Women in Leadership Roles in the 21st Century
Mrs. Carolyn Handschin-Moser - President WFWP Int. – Europe
Dr. Zhannat Kosmukhamedova, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Mrs. Magdalena Vasaryova, Member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia 2005-2006.
Dr. Lyudmila Fomicheva, President of the St. Petersburg Union of Journalists, President of the Council of the North-West Branch of the Russian Association of Public Relations
Dr. Anna Gudyma, research associate of the Russian Academy of Sciences

11:00           Coffee Break

11:30           SESSION VI: The Future of Europe and Russia - a Youth Perspective
Mr. Bogdan Pammer, Chair Youth UPF Europe
Ms. Evgeniya Beginina, the Head of Analytical Department of “Youth Commonwealth (Molodezhnoye Sodruzhestvo)”
Ms. Nargiz Ismailova, Moscow Academy of Economics and Law
Dr. Philipp Depisch, President of the Middleeuropean Initiative

13:00           Lunch in the hotel for all conference guests

14:30           SESSION VII:  Education for Global Citizenship and Sustainable Peace
Dr. Walther Lichem, Former Head of Dept. for International Organizations, Austrian Foreign Ministry
Dr. E. Krasinets, Head of the Laboratory for Migration Studies of the Institute of Social and Economic Studies of Population of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Dr. Tatiana Shevtsova, Institute of Social and Economic Studies of Population of the Russian Academy of Sciences   
Mr. Timothy  Miller, Vice-Chair UPF Europe

Comments and questions

16:00           Coffee Break

16:30           SESSION VIII:  Closing Session - Updates and Overview
Ms. Carolyn Handschin-Moser - President WFWP Int. – Europe
Dr. Thomas Walsh, President of UPF International                
Mr. Mark Brann, Secretary General UPF Europe
Reflections and Ambassador for Peace Awards

18:30           Dinner for international hotel guests

Sunday 14th October

07:30           Breakfast and Check-out
09:30           Sightseeing for Russian delegation
13:00           Lunch and departures

Mark Brann, Secretary General UPF Europe; Christian Rathner, Austrian National TV, Religion department; Dr. Thomas Walsh, President of UPF International; Dr. Yong Cheon Song, Chairman of UPF Europe; Ms. Hai Ok Song Lee of UPF Europe; Dr. Werner Fasslabend, former Minister of Defence Austria; Dr. Erhard Busek, former Vice Chancellor of the Republic of Austria; Mr. Peter Haider President of UPF Austria; Dr. Willem Van Eekelen, former WEU Secretary General and Defence Minister of the Netherlands

H.E. Sergey Nechaev, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Austria and Peter Haider, President of UPF Austria

IDEA Society Chairman Dr. Stefan Stoev and Hon. Dr. Henri Malosse, President of the Employers Group, Economic and Social Committee of the European Union

Dr. Svetlana Karepova , Vice Director of the Institute of Socio-Political Studies of the Russian Academy of Science

Photographs by Peter Zoehrer, journalist and president of FAMFED Austria