Tiesioginės transliacijos pradžia rugsėjo 14 d. 15.30 val.
Vilniaus demokratijos forumas – Rytų Europos studijų centro, Tarptautinių santykių ir politikos mokslų instituto, JAV Hudsono instituto, „Freedom House“ ir „National Endowment for Democracy“ rengiamoje konferencijoje apie pasikeitusią saugumo aplinką po Rusijos agresijos Ukrainoje. Daugiau informacijos apie konferenciją rasite čia.
Konferencijos programa:
Rugsėjo 14 d.
15:30 – 15.45 Welcome Address
Laurynas Kasčiūnas, Acting Director, Eastern Europe Studies Center, Lithuania
Message from H.E. Dalia Grybauskaitė, President of the Republic of
Lithuania
15.45 – 16.00 Keynote Address
Karen Dawisha, Walter E. Havighurst Professor of Political Science, Miami University, United States
16.00 – 16.15 Addresses by:
Elizabeth Bauer, Head of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Baltic States
H.E. Tinatin Khidasheli, Minister of Defence of Georgia
16.15 – 18.00 Working Session No. 1: HOW NON-DEMOCRATIC REGIMES/ KLEPTOCRACIES WORK?
Moderator: Charles Davidson, Executive Director of the Kleptocracy Initiative, Hudson Institute & Publisher & CEO of The American Interest LLC, United States
Panellists:
Gabrielius Landsbergis, Member of the European Parliament, Lithuania
Jerzy Pomianowski, Director, European Endowment for Democracy, Belgium
James S. Denton, Editor-in-Chief, World Affairs Journal, United States
Karen Dawisha, Walter E. Havighurst Professor of Political Science, Miami University, United States
Marius Laurinavičius, Senior Policy Analyst, Eastern Europe Studies Centre, Lithuania &Fellow-in-Residence, Center for European Policy Analysis, United States
Anke Schmidt-Felzmann, Research Fellow, Europe Programme, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Sweden
Discussion
Rugsėjo 15 d.
9.00 – 11.00 Working Session No. 2: HOW TO DEAL WITH NON-DEMOCRATIC REGIMES?
Moderator: Ramūnas Vilpišauskas, Director, Institute for International Relations and Political Sciences, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Panellists:
David J. Kramer, Senior Director for Human Rights and Democracy, McCain Institute, United States
Andrei Illarionov, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute, United States. Former Chief Advisor to the President of Russia Vladimir Putin
Jeffrey Gedmin, Senior Fellow, Georgetown University, United States & Senior Fellow, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, United Kingdom
Walter Russell Mead, James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities, Bard College & Professor of American Foreign Policy, Yale University & Editor-at-Large, The American Interest & Non-Resident Scholar, Hudson Institute
Neringa Klumbytė, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Walter E. Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, Miami University
Discussion
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 – 13.30 Working Session No. 3: “RENEWING THE TRANSATLANTIC COMMITMENT TO DEMOCRACY”
Moderator: Žygimantas Pavilionis, Ambassador-at-Large for Europe's East (Eastern Partnership), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania
Panellists:
Benediktas Juodka, Member & Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania
Maria Leissner, Secretary General, Community of Democracies
Jason Donovan, Director, Office of Multilateral and Global Affairs, Bureau of Democracy, Rights and Labor, United States
Christopher Walker, Executive Director, International Forum for Democratic Studies, National Endowment for Democracy, United States
Stephen B. Nix, Regional Program Director for Eurasia, International Republican Institute, United States
Laura Jewett, Regional Director for Eurasia, National Democratic Institute, United States
Discussion
13.30 – 14.00 Presentation of the Vilnius Experts Group Memorandum
14.00 – 14.15 Closing of the Forum
H.E. Loreta Graužinienė, Speaker of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania
Introduced by Laurynas Kasčiūnas, Acting Director, Eastern Europe Studies Center, Lithuania