Paper 1: Hans Günter Brauch, Free University of Berlin, Berlin and AFES-PRESS, Mosbach (Germany): Reconceptualising of Security: Stages and Goals (Abstract)

Paper 2: Hans Günter Brauch, Free University of Berlin, Berlin and AFES-PRESS, Mosbach (Germany): Concepts of Security Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks (UNU-EHS report) (Abstract)

Paper 3: Ursula Oswald Spring, UNAM/CRIM, Cuernavaca (Mexico): Environmental Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks in Latin America: A Case Study on Mexico (Abstract)

Discussant: P.H. Liotta, Pell Center for International Studies and Public Policy, Newport, R.I. (USA):

10.30-11.00: Coffee Break

11.00-12.30: Panel 2: Military and Political Security Threats in the Euro-Mediterranean Region

Chair: Béchir Chourou, University of Carthage, Tunis (Tunisia)

Paper 4: Fausto Pedrazzini, Programme Director, Chemistry/ Biology/ Physics, Collaborative Programmes Section, NATO Public Diplomacy Divi-sion (Italy): NATO's Non-traditional Approach to Security Concepts in the Mediterranean Region: Scientific Cooperation on Desertification, Seismic Events and Environmental Issues (Abstract)

Paper 5: Mohamad Selim, University of Kuwait (Egypt): Hard and Soft Security Threats in the Arab World (Abstract)

Discussant: P.H. Liotta, Pell Center for International Studies and Public Policy, Newport, R.I. (USA)

12.30-14.00: Lunch Break

14.00-15.30: Panel 3: Climate Change as Environmental and Human Security Challenges and Vulnerabilities

Chair: Ursula Oswald Spring, UNAM/CRIM, Cuernavaca (Mexico)

Paper 6: Mohammed El Raey, University of Alexandria, Alexandria (Egypt): Mapping Areas Affected by Sea-level Rise due to Climate Change in the Nile Delta until 2100 (Abstract)

Paper 7: Yannis Kinnas, AFES-PRESS Advisory Board, Athens (Greece): Human Security, Climate Change and Small Islands (Abstract), Presentation

Discussant: Hans Günter Brauch, Free University of Berlin, Berlin and AFES-PRESS, Mosbach (Germany)

15.30-16.00: Coffee Break

16.00-17.30: Panel 4: Mapping Environmental Security Challenges

Chair: Yannis Kinnas, AFES-PRESS Advisory Board, Athens (Greece)

Paper 8: José; Luis Rubio, Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación (CIDE), Valencia (Spain): Assessing Environmental Security Challenges Caused by Desertification Processes in Spain (Abstract)

Paper 9: Prof. Ismail Abd El Galil Hussein, Director of the Desert Research Center, Cairo (Egypt): Mapping Areas Affected by Soil Erosion and Desertification in Egypt (Abstract)

Paper 10: Mohamed Sabir, Ecole Nationale Forestière d'ingénieurs, Chairman of ISCO 2006 with Mohamed Qarro, Mohamed Rochdi, Mohamed Badraoui (Morocco): Mapping Deforestation, Soil Erosion and Desertification in Morocco (Abstract), Presentation

Discussant: Jörn Birkmann, UNU-EHS, Bonn (Germany)

Prof. Rubio (Valencia, Spain) and Prof. Sabir (Rabat, Morocco)

17.45-18.30: Plenary Lecture

18.30-20.00: Reception

Joint dinner in the streets of Istanbul

Friday, 26 August 2005

9.00-10.30: Panel 5: Social Science Concepts of Security Vulnerability and Risks

Chair: Hans Günter Brauch, Free University of Berlin, Berlin and AFES-PRESS, Mosbach (Germany)

Paper 11: P.H. Liotta, Pell Center for International Studies and Public Policy, Newport, R.I. (USA): Democracy as Vulnerability, Risk and Opportunity: Implications for Security (Abstract)

Paper 12: Jörn Birkmann, UNU-EHS, Bonn (Germany): Vulnerability Indicators (Abstract)

Paper 13: Fabien Nathan, Institute for Development Studies, Geneva (France): Vulnerabilities to natural hazard: the example of landslide risks in La Paz (Abstract), Presentation

Discussant: Mohamad Selim, University of Kuwait (Egypt)

10.30-11.00: Coffee Break

11.00-12.30: Panel 6: Environmental and Water Security Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks in the Middle East and North African (MENA) Region

Chair: Mohamad Selim, University of Kuwait (Egypt)

Paper 14: Czeslaw Mesjasz, Cracow Economic University (Poland): Prediction and Risk in Security Theory (Abstract)

Paper 15: Béchir Chourou, University of Carthage, Tunis (Tunisia): Environmental Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks in North Africa (Abstract)

Paper 16: Bassam Hayek, Environmental Research Center, Royal Scientific Society, Amman (Jordan): Water Degradation as Challenges and Vulnerabilities to Human and Health Security in Jordan (Abstract)

Discussant: Ursula Oswald Spring, UNAM/CRIM, Cuernavaca (Mexico)

12.30-14.00: Lunch Break

14.00-15.30: Panel 7: Environmental Security Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks in the Near and Middle East

Chair: Bassam Hayek, Environmental Research Center, Royal Scientific Society, Amman (Jordan)

Paper 17: Mohammad Said Al Hmaidi, former director general of the Palestinian Ministry of the Environment (Palestine): Toxic Waste Management as Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks for Environmental Security in Palestine (Abstract)

Paper 18 Uriel Safriel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem (Israel): Desertification and Drought as Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks for Environmental Security (Abstract), Presentation, CV

Paper 19: Marwad Haddad, An-Najah National University in Nablus (Palestine): Water Scarcity and Degradation in Palestine as Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks for Environmental Security (Abstract)

Discussant: Ursula Oswald Spring, UNAM/CRIM, Cuernavaca (Mexico)

15.30-16.00: Coffee Break

16.00-17.30: Panel 8: Military, Political and Economic Security Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks in the Near and Middle East and in China

Chair: P.H. Liotta, Pell Center for International Studies and Public Policy, Newport, R.I. (USA)

Paper 20: David Newman, Ben Gurion University, Beersheva (Israel), Editor of Geopolitics: Perception of Military, Political, and Economic Security Challenges in Israel (Abstract)

Paper 21: Mohamed Dajani, Al Quds University, Jerusalem (Palestine): Perception of Military, Political, and Economic Security Challenges in Palestine (Abstract)

Paper 22: Pablo Pareja-Alcaraz, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain): Old and New Security Challenges in the XXI Century: Could China's New Security Challenges Undermine it's Consolidation as a Global Power? (Abstract)

Discussant: Czeslaw Mesjasz, Cracow Economic Economic University (Poland)

18.00 Reception by the Foreign Minister of Turkey

Saturday, 27 August 2005

9.00-10.30: Panel 9: Water Security Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks

Chair: Yasemin Biro, Columbia University, New York (Turkey)

Paper 23: Bastien Affeltranger, UNU-EHS, Bonn (France): Are River Basin Organisations Sustainable Institutions? Case Study of the Mekong (Abstract), Presentation

Paper 24: Martin Kipping, Bonn (Germany): Can "Integrated Water Resources Management" Silence Neo-Malthusian Concerns? The Case of Kyrgyzstan Presentation (Abstract), CV

Paper 25: Hans Günter Brauch, Free University of Berlin and AFES-PRESS (Germany):: Wrapping up: From Istanbul to Bonn: Goals of the Third Book on Reconceptualising Security (Abstract)

Discussant: Bassam Hayek, Environmental Research Center, Royal Scientific Society, Amman (Jordan)

10.30-11.00: Coffee Break

11.00-12.30: Panel 10: From Conflict to Environmental Peacemaking in the Middle East: A Roundtable

Chair: Ursula Oswald Spring, UNAM/CRIM, Cuernavaca, Former Minister of Environment, Morelos, Mexico, Former President of IPRA; Secretary General of CLAIP (Mexico) (Abstract)

Paper 26: Mohammed Dajani, Al Quds University, Jerusalem (Palestine): Developing the Small Hopes, (90 MB), (Abstract)

Paper 27: David Newman, Ben Gurion University, Beersheva (Israel): Overcoming the Non-debate on Environmental Security in Israel and Palestine (Abstract)

Paper 28: Hans Günter Brauch, Free University of Berlin and AFES.-PRESS (Germany): Learning from Mitrany, Marshall, Monnet, Gorbachev: 60 Years of Peace in Europe (Abstract)

Paper 29: P.H. Liotta, Pell Center for International Studies and Public Policy, Newport, R.I. (USA): Towards Environmental Peacemaking in the Middle East (Abstract)

Paper 30: Uriel Safriel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem (Israel): Cooperation in Combating Desertification (Abstract)

Paper 31: Marwad Haddad, An-Najah National University in Nablus (Palestine): Cooperation on Water Issues (Abstract)

Afternoon and evening of 27 August

Farewell Dinner for Speakers of AFES-PRESS and MENA Group
Bosphorus Cruise with Dinner

Prof. Hussein (Cairo, Egypt) listening to life music during the boat trip on the Bosphorous with a palace of the Sultan in the background

Dr. Hayek (Amman, Jordan); Prof. Dajani, East Jerusalem, Palestine

Prof. Chourou (Tunis, Tunisia) Mr Nathan (Geneva), Mr. Kipping (Bonn, Germany)

Prof. Selim (Cairo, Egypt); Prof. Mesjasz (Krakow, Poland), Mr. Nathan (Geneva)

The photos have been taken by Prof. Oswald Spring (Mexico), Prof. Haddad (Nablus, palestine) and prof. Sabir (Rabat, Morocco)