Palazzo Vecchio
8:00 – 9:30 | Registration, Cortile del Michelozzo
8:00 – 18:00 | Coffee point, Cortile della Dogana
Dario Nardella, Mayor of Florence
Enrico Rossi, President, Tuscany Region
Leonardo Bassilichi, President, Camera di Commercio di Firenze
Jean-Émile Gombert, President of the EUI High Council
J.H.H. Weiler, President, European University Institute
Ruth Rubio Marín, Professor of Constitutional and Public Comparative Law, EUI
Women and Conflict
Women have played, and continue to play, a variety of roles in contemporary armed conflict. They have also been disproportionately impacted by conflict, whether through sexual violence and other war crimes, forced displacement, the denial of basic services, or the breakdown in communal solidarity. This panel will discuss both how women are being affected by contemporary conflict, and how women might make a greater contribution to conflict resolution and peacebuilding. In so doing, it will discuss the impact of Security Council Resolution 1325, passed in the year 2000, which was the first to link women’s experiences of conflict to the international peace and security agenda. It will also reflect on the progress made in elevating women to strategic leadership roles in international and regional peace and security organisations.
Chair:
Jennifer Welsh, Professor in International Relations, EUI
Speakers:
Valerie Amos, former Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
Monica Maggioni, President of RAI
Patricia Sellers, Special Advisor for prosecution strategies to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
Andrey Fursenko, former Minister of Education and Science; Aide to the President of the Russian Federation
Discussion:
Andrey Fursenko, former Minister of Education and Science; Aide to the President of the Russian Federation
J.H.H. Weiler, President of the EUI
12:45 – 14:30 | Tasting of local specialties, Cortile della Dogana
Religion, Marginalisation and Radicalisation
Chair:
Olivier Roy, Joint Chair RSCAS, Chair in Mediterranean Studies, EUI
Speakers:
Rainer Hermann, Editor at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Roula Khalaf, Deputy Editor, Financial Times
Moncef Marzouki, former President of Tunisia
Christiane Taubira, former French Minister of Justice
16:00 – 16:15 | Break
Women in Leadership
Leadership has been an elusive but ubiquitous phenomenon throughout human history in all societies. For much of global history, women were not present in formal leadership. In the 20th century, two waves of feminism, in the early part of the century and later from the 1960s onwards, challenged the absence of women from traditional arenas of male leadership. Women began to emerge as leaders in politics, business and other fields. However, the number of women in senior leadership positions remains small in relation to the population of women.
Chair:
Brigid Laffan, Director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and Director of the Global Governance Programme, EUI
Speakers:
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, French Minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research; Presidency of the EUI High Council
Stefania Giannini, Italian Minister of Education, Universities and Research
Maria Luís Albuquerque, former Minister of State and Finance of Portugal
Marta Cartabia, Vice President, Italian Constitutional Court
Sylvie Kauffmann, Editorial Director, Le Monde
17:45 – 18:00 | Break
Keynote speech:
Joseph Muscat, Prime Minister of Malta
Discussants:
Tony Barber, Europe Editor, Financial Times
J.H.H. Weiler, President of the EUI
Keynote speech:
Matteo Renzi, Prime Minister of Italy