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Council of Europe 2008 Exchange on the religious dimension of intercultural dialogue
(Strasbourg, 8 April 2008)
List of participants
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Representatives of religious communities:
Catholic
Reverend Dr Ferenc JANKA
Vice-Secretary General of the Conference of Bishop’s Conferences of Europe
Reverend Father Jean-Marie Laurent MAZAS
Pontifical Council for Culture
Ms Oona STANNARD
Chief Executive and Director of the Catholic Education Service for England and Wales (CES)
Protestant
Reverend James BARNETT
Representative of the Anglican Church
Accompanied by:
Mr Richard FISCHER
Ms Carla MAURER
Executive Secretary of the Conference of European Churches (CEC)
Pastor Thomas WIPF
President of the Swiss Council of Religions (SCR)
Orthodox
Archpriest Vsevolod CHAPLIN
Vice-chairman of the Department for Church external relations,
Moscow Patriarchate
Accompanied by:
Higoumène Philaret Bulekov
Vasile IORGULESCU
Priest, Romanian Orthodox Church
Dr Gary VACHICOURAS
Orthodox Centre of the Ecumenical Patriarchate
Other Christian Churches
Archbishop Yeznick PETROSSIAN
General Secretary for Inter-Church Relations of Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin
Catholicossate of All Armenians
Jewish
Chief Rabbi Marc-Raphaël GUEDJ
President of the Fondation « Racines et Sources »
Chief Rabbi René GUTMAN
Permanent Representative of the Conference of European Rabbis (GNO)
Rabbi Haïm NISENBAUM
Secretary General – Spokesman of Beth Loubavitch
Vice President of the Paris Consistory
Accompanied by:
Rabbi Mendel SAMAMA
Muslim
Doctor Sadek SELLAM
Islamologist and Head of studies within the European Islamic Conference
Accompanied by:
Mr Michel DAVID
Mr Bülent ŞENAY
Associate Professor
Counsellor for Religious Affairs at the Presidency of Religious Affairs of Turkey
Imam Abdelhamid YOUYOU
Director of Cultural Affairs
Great Mosque of Strasbourg
NGOs / INGOs:
Mr Charles CONTE
International League for Child and Adult Education (LIEECP)
Mr Gaston DE LA HAYE
Education International (EI)
Mr Veysel FILIZ
COJEP International
Excused: Ms Intissar KHERIGI
Forum of European Muslim Youth and Student Organisations (FEMYSO)
Ms Brigitte LE GOUIS
European Union of Women (EUW)
Mr Georg PLATZ
Catholic International Education Office (OIEC)
Accompanied by:
Mr Israël MENSAH
Mr Robert SINGER
World ORT (Organisation for Educational Resources and Technological Training)
Accompanied by:
Mr Armand ABECASSIS
Mr Richard ABOAF
Mr Michel BENOILID
Mr Gérard BERNHEIM
Mr Claude SABBAH
Experts / representatives of the media:
Mr Ioan BUDURA
European Broadcasting Union
Prof. PhDr. Tomáš HALÍK Th.D.
Professor of sociology, University Charles, Prague
Mr Robert JACKSON PhD, DLitt
Professor of Education, University of Warwick
Mr Recep KAYMAKCAN
Professor of Religious Education, Sakarya University, Adapazarı, Turkey
Dr. Marianna SHAKHNOVICH
Professor, Doctor in Philosophy, Head of the Department of Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies at the State University of Saint-Petersburg, member of the Council on relations with religious associations to the President of the Russian Federation
Mr Peter SCHREINER
General Secretary of the Coordinating Group for religious Education in Europe (CoGREE) and President of the InterEuropean Commission on Church and School (ICCS)
Professor Jean-Paul WILLAIME
Director of Studies at the "Ecole pratique des hautes études"
Religious sciences section, Sorbonne, Paris
Other participants:
Member and observer states
ALBANIA
Ms M. Gega
Mr M. Meminaj
ANDORRA
Ms F. Aleix
ARMENIA
Mr C. Ter Stepanian
Ms O. Davtian
AUSTRIA
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AZERBAIJAN
Mr H. Nasibov
BELGIUM
Mr J. Devadder
Mr F. Bontemps
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Ms M. Dimitrijevic
BULGARIA
Mrs L. Draganova
Expert:
M Zhasmina Donkova
Chief specialist, Religious Affaires Department, Council of Ministers
CROATIA
Mr D. Bučan
Mrs P. Leppee Fraize
CYPRUS
Mr M. Stavrinos
Mr D. Samuel
Mr G. Ioannides
CZECH REPUBLIC
Mr P. Svoboda
Mr O. Abrhám
DENMARK
Mr C. Oldenburg
ESTONIA
Mr I. Siil
FINLAND
Ms A.-C. Krank
FRANCE
Mr B. Gain
Ms C. Larene
GEORGIA
Ms I. Mamuchishvili
GERMANY
Mr E. Kölsch
Ms C. Althauser
GREECE
Mr A. Dendoulis
Ms V. Yiannakaki
HUNGARY
Mr B. Horváth
ICELAND
Ms L. Arnlaugsdóttir
IRELAND
Ms M. Connery
Mr N. Sheerin
ITALY
Mr P. Lonardo
Mr A. Verde
Expert:
Mr Francesco Spano
Youth Consultative bofy for
Interreligious and Intercultural
Dialogue
LATVIA
Mr P. Elferts
Mrs I. Freimane-Deksne
LIECHTENSTEIN
Mr D. Ospelt
LITHUANIA
Ms J. Juodagalvienė
LUXEMBOURG
Mr R. Mayer
MALTA
Mr M. Pace
MOLDOVA
Mr A. Neguta
Mrs M. Balitchi
MONACO
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MONTENEGRO
Mr I. Ivanišević
Expert:
Mr Danilo Brajovic,
Councillor, Ministry of Foreign Affaires
NETHERLANDS
Mr J. van der Velden
Ms M. Ouwens
NORWAY
Mr T. Frøysnes
POLAND
Mr P. Świtalski
Mr K. Piórkowski
PORTUGAL
Mr A. Madeira Bárbara
Mr J. Patricio
ROMANIA
Mr S. Stoian
Ms O. Rogoveanu
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Mr I. Kapyrin
Mr V. Egorov
Mr V. Ermakov
Mr A. Tarasov
Mr I. Subbotin
Mr K. Kosorukov
Experts: Mr Alexandre Orlov
Director for relations with the
institutions, the parliament and
ONGs
Mr Eduard Pyzhkin,
First secretary of the European
Co-operation Department, Ministry
for Foreign Affairs
SAN MARINO
Mr F. Stolfi, Chair
Ms M.L. Pedini,
Director General, Ministry for
Foreign Affairs
Mr G. Bellatti Ceccoli
Mr C. Carattoni,
Protocol, Ministry for Foreign
Affairs
Mr D. Beleffi
Ms S. Berti,
Ministry for Foreign Affairs
SERBIA
Ms S. Prica
Ms K. Lalic Smajevic
Mr A. Tomic
SLOVAK REPUBLIC
Ms S. Danová
SLOVENIA
Ms M. Bole
Mr J. Brenčič
SPAIN
Mr A. Navarro de Zuvillaga
SWEDEN
Mr P. Sjögren,
Mr B. Häggmark
SWITZERLAND
Mr P. Widmer
“THE FORMER
YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC
OF MACEDONIA”
Ms E. Petrova-Mitevska
TURKEY
Mr D. Batibay
Mr T. Oral
UKRAINE
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UNITED KINGDOM
Ms E. Fuller
Ms V. Morley
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CANADA
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HOLY SEE
Rev. F. Kolfhaus
JAPAN
Mr T. Kawada
Ms A. Namba
MEXICO
Ms A.R. Arizmendi
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Institutional partners within the Council of Europe
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Mr André SCHNEIDER
Vice-Chairperson of the Delegation of France to the Parliamentary Assembly
European Court of Human Rights
Mr Riza TÜRMEN
Turkish Judge, representing the President of the Court
Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe
Ms Dubravka ŠUICA
Mayor of the city of Dubrovnik
Commissioner for Human Rights
Mr Marc SCHEUER
Director of the Office of the Commissioner
Council of Europe's INGO Conference
Mrs Annelise OESCHGER
President of the INGO Conference
Mr Gabriel NISSIM
President of the Grouping on Human Rights
(The World Catholic Association for Communication (SIGNIS))
Mr Alain MOUCHOUX
President of the Grouping on Education and Culture
("Comité syndical européen de l'Education")
Mr Andrew COPSON
Director of the British Humanist Association
(European Humanist Federation)
Accompanied by:
Mr Georges LIENARD
European Commission
Mrs Luisella PAVAN-WOOLFE
OSCE
Professor Silvio FERRARI
Advisory Council on Freedom of Religion or Belief, ODIHR
Ms Simona SANTORO
Adviser, ODIHR
Alliance of Civilizations
Excused
Secretariat of the Council of Europe
Ms Maud de BOER--BUQUICCHIO
Deputy Secretary General
Ms Gabriella BATTAINI-DRAGONI
Director General of DGIV and Co-ordinator for Intercultural Dialogue
Ms Francine ARNOLD-PAULI
Administrator Committee of Ministers