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Lecture Program
DAY ONE: Saturday, 20 October 2007
| 9.30-10.00 |
Welcoming Address / Opening Remarks
Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA, Jerusalem |
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| 10.00-11.30 |
Palestinian Security Sector: Overview - Structures, agencies, actors, legal framework, control, oversight & accountability
Firas Milhem, Faculty of Law and Public Administration, Birzeit University |
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| 11.45-13.15 |
Palestinian Security Sector:
Needs, principles, challenges and mechanisms for effective reform
Firas Milhem |
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| 14.30-16.00 |
The Rule of Law: Exploring the Concept (various aspects of rule of law promotion: constitutional development, code reform, legal drafting, judicial reform)
Dr. Herta Däubler-Gmelin, Member of the German Parliament (SPD) and Head of its Committee for Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid. |
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DAY TWO: Sunday, 21 October 2007
| 9.15-10.45 |
Transitional Justice: Interaction between Democracy, Human Rights and the Rule of Law (accountability for past abuses, fighting corruption, democratic policing, use of local customary practice)
Dr. Herta Däubler-Gmelin and Eduard Hoffmann |
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| 11.00-12.15 |
Leadership Styles
(leadership types, various personalities, convincing others, leaving an impression, understanding what makes a leader. Motivating others, leadership in cultural and situational contexts, leadership ethics)
Dr. Mahmoud Baidoun, Senior Trainer and Clinical Supervisor, Birzeit University |
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| 13.30-15.30 |
Leadership Styles, contd.
Dr. Mahmoud Baidoun |
DAY THREE: Monday, 22 October 2007
| 9.15-10.45 |
Palestinian Security Sector: Specific and generic threats (incl. internal, transnational, social and economic threats)
Ziad Hab Ar-Rieh, Head of Preventive Security in West Bank and Gaza |
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| 11.00-12.30 |
Methodologies in the Promotion of the Rule of Law: Lessons from Reform Projects in New or Restored Democracies (Case Studies)
Claudia Fenz, EUPOL COPPS
Download: Presentation file |
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| 13.30-15.30 |
Problem Areas and Needs Relating to the Rule of Law in Palestine and Reform Efforts to Date (Accountability/Fighting Impunity and Corruption)
Ghassan Faramand, Institute of Law, Birzeit University |
DAY Four: Tuesday, 23 October 2007
| 9.15-10.45 |
Rule of Law and Local Informal Practices in Palestine (alternative methods of crisis management / conflict resolution)
Jihad Harb, Researcher, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR), Ramallah |
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| 11.00-12.30 |
Formulation and elements of a security policy and strategy (institutions, roles and responsibilities; role of the security sector in politics; White Paper in progress)
Firas Milhem |
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| 13.30-15.30 |
Establishment and institutionalization of transparent and accountable security organizations
Jihad Harb |
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DAY FIVE: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
| 9.15-10.30 |
Principles and Practice of Democratic Civil Governance of the Security Sector
Dr. George Giacaman, Director of Muwatin, Ramallah |
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| 10.45-12.00 |
Society-Security Relations
Dr. Ali Jirbawi, Professor of Political Science, Birzeit University |
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| 14.00-15.00 |
Wrap up and final discussion |
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