How to Assemble Parliamentary Assemblies: Bringing international parliamentary institutions to the next level
How to Assemble Parliamentary Assemblies: Bringing international parliamentary institutions to the next level
Brussels, Belgium
November 27-28 2018
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AGENDA (provisional, subject to change)
Tuesday, 27 November 2018 (9:30– 16:30)
Session 1: Parliamentary Assemblies: The State of the Art
- Setting the Agenda & Welcoming Remarks
- Introduction: Evolution of International Parliamentary Institutions and their categorization, Andrea Cofelice (University of Padua)
Case Studies (Part I)
- Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Isra Sunthornvut (Secretary-General, ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly)
- African Union and the Pan-African Parliament (PAP), Hon. Roger Nkodo Dang (President, PAP) (invited)
Session 2: Getting into the Machinery
- Institutional configurations of IPIs including the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (TBD)
- The European Parliament: a success story to draw upon? Madeleine O. Hosli (Professor, United Nations University – UNU-CRIS)
Panel discussion: IPIs in regional & global governance
Reception at the European Parliament hosted by Jo Leinen, MEP, Germany until 19:30
Wednesday, 28 November 2018 (9:00 – 16:30)
Session 3: Other Regional, Functional, and Global IPIs
Case Studies (Part II)
- Latin America: Parliamento Latino Americano (PARLATINO), Mercosur, Organization of American States (OAS), Fernando Iglesias (Chamber of Deputies, Argentina)
- The Inter-Parliamentary Union (TBD)
Session 4: The way forward for parliamentary assemblies
- The need and potential benefit of new global parliamentary assemblies including at the WTO, the UN, or the IMF, Andreas Bummel (Executive Director, Democracy Without Borders)
Workshop: Laboratory for Parliamentary Assemblies
Simultaneous workshops on regional and functional parliamentary assemblies with the intent of developing high-level objectives and pathway for respective IPIs institutional development. Recommended workshop sessions are:
Regional IPIs:
- Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
- African Union (AU)
- Latin-American Parliament (PARLATINO)
Functional IPIs:
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and conference may select others
Concluding remarks and distribution of certificates
Partial list of distinguished politicians, practitioners and academic speakers:
- Fernando Iglesias (Chamber of Deputies, Argentina)
- Jo Leinen , (MEP, European Parliament)
- Isra Sunthornvut (Secretary-General, ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly)
- Cristina Castagnoli (Head of Unit, Democracy and Election Actions, European Parliament)
- African Union, PAP Representative
- Madeleine O. Hosli (Professor, United Nations University - CRIS)
- Niels Blokker (Professor, Leiden University)
- Chiara Steindler (PhD, James Madison University)
- Andrea Cofelice (PhD, University of Padua)
- Andrew Bradley (Director, Office of International IDEA to the European Union)
- Ken Godfrey (Executive Director, European Partnership for Democracy)
- Andreas Bummel (Executive Director, Democracy Without Borders)
- Shahr-yar Sharei (Executive Director, Center for United Nations Constitutional Research)
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