Debatmøde: Tunesiens overgang til demokrati

TIME: Friday, 25 May, 10.30 – 12.00 (Please note that doors will be closed at 10.30 sharp)

VENUE: Nye KUA, Njalsgade, building 22, room 011 (entrance from Emil Holms Kanal/Njalsgade), 2300 Copenhagen S.

TIME: Friday, 25 May, 10.30 – 12.00 (Please note that doors will be closed at 10.30 sharp)

VENUE: Nye KUA, Njalsgade, building 22, room 011 (entrance from Emil Holms Kanal/Njalsgade), 2300 Copenhagen S.

Since the popular uprising in December 2010 Tunisia has undergone dramatic political changes. After the first ever free and fair elections in October 2011, a coalition government headed by the Ennahda party was formed and is currently responsible for addressing some of Tunisia’s many political and economic challenges and potentials.

The seminar will explore the nature and current status of the potentials and challenges that Tunisia faces in its transition to democracy – as well as the ways and means by which foreign actors such as Denmark and the European Union can address and support the transition process.

The seminar will be in English.

Please register at [email protected] no later than Wednesday May 23 at noon by writing “Tunisia” in the subject line + name and institution.

Programme:

9.45 – 10.30: Arrival and Coffee

10.30 – 10.35: Welcome; Ph.D. Fellow Rikke Hostrup Haugbølle (KUA)

10.35 – 10.55: Tunisia’s Transition to Democracy: current status, challenges and potentials; Mr. Rafik Ben Abdessalem; Member of the Ennahda party and Tunisian Minister for Foreign Affairs

10.55 – 11.15: Changes in the North Africa and Middle East: impressions one year after; Mr. Christian Friis Bach, Member of the Radical Left party and Danish Minister for Development

11.15 – 12.00: Questions from the audience

Moderator: Ph.D. and Project Researcher Julie Pruzan-Jørgensen (DIIS)