Draft Agenda

 

The First International Conference on Human Rights and Cultures: Cultures in Support of Humanity

 24-26 Nov.2011

 

Opening:Thursday  24 November : 9-10:30

Closing: Saturday: 17:30-  18:30  Closing of the Conference and Handing Over the Certificates to the Participant

 Detail Program: in 2 Panels as Follows.

 

Panel  1

Thursday 24 November 2011

Time  

 Speaker

Topic

9-10 :30

              Opening

 

10:30-11 Break

 

 

 

 

11-12:30

 

 

 

Christopher Harland

 

Protection of Cultural Property in Armed Conflicts

 

Hossein Diba

 

 

 

 

Morality, Culture and humanitarianism

Janet Blake

 

 

Exploring the Relationship between Cultural Heritage and Human Rights

 

12:30-14 Break

 

 

14-15:30

 

 

Amir Saed Vakil

 

International Cooperation in Protection of Humanitarianism in View of Religions

 

 

Kathleen Cavanaugh

 

Constructing the Other

 

Ghasem Zamani

 

 

The Right to Participate in Cultural Life as a Human Right: A New Exception to International Sanctions?

 

15:30-16

 

 

 

Break

16-17:30

 

Reza Eslami

 

 

Tolerance and Cultures: Human Rights Perspective

 

 Branislav Radeljic

 

 

 

Islam  as a Challenge to European Tolerance

 

 

Sanoj Rajon

 

South Asia and its contribution to International Humanitarian Law Synopsis

 

 

 

 

 

 Panel  2

Thursday 24 November 2011 

Time 

 Speaker

Topic

9-10 :30

              Opening

 

10:30-11

 

 

11-12:30

 

 

Saeid Khaluzadeh,

 

Cultural Policies of European Union and the Role of Human Rights

 

 Mohamamad Reza Saeidabadi

 

The Role of Cultural Diversity in Promoting a Culture of Peace

 

 Mostafa A’laye

 

 

Cultural diversity; contribution to peace and humanity, cultural conformity; road to uncertainty and violence

 

12:30-14

 

 

14-15:30

 

 

 Bahman Akbari

 

Humanities in Islamic Discourse

 

 

 Nasrin Mosaffa

 

Facing the poverty: from charity to right to development

 

 

Mykhaylo Yakubovych

 

 

A Cultural Significance of the Modern Islamic Exegetics for the Theory of Religious Tolerance

 

15:30-16

 

 

 

 

16-17:30

 Mehdi Zakeryan

 

Human Rights and Universal  Conscienc

 Pouria Askary

 

 

 

 

Universality and Cultural Diversity in Practice: Reservation to Human Rights Treaties

 

 

Hossein Sartipi

 

 

 

Human Security, Culture and Universal Peace

 

 

 

 

 Panel  1

Friday 25 November 2011

 

Time 

 Speaker

Topic

9-10 :30

 

Michel Veuthey

 

Sources of IHL across civilizations

 

Seyed Mohammad Hashemi

 

Islamic Culture and Human Rights

 

Saeid Mansouri

 

Humanity as Reflected in Islamic Culture

 

10:30-11

 

Break

11-12:30

 

 Seyed Alireza Vasei 

 

Humanitarian Law in Imam Ali’e Tradition

 

 

Muhamamd Munir

 

Violation of Islamic jus in bello and cultural values by the Pakistani Taliban: A Critical Appraisal

 

 

Su-ming Khoo

 

 

Educating within culture and human rights: What can a capabilities approach add?”

 

12:30-14

 

Lunch

14-15:30

 

 

Zia E. MADANI

 

Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations of States and the issue of Cultural Rights

 

Bahram Mostaghimi

 

Cultures: Unites and Divides

 Alireza Delkhosh

 

 

The Right of “Judicial Security” and supportive approach of the General provisions of Human Rights

 

15:30-16

 

 

 

Break

16-17:30

 

Valeyollah Ansari

Abdollah Bagheri

 

The principle of freedom of religion, a comparative study between Islamic law and international law

 

 Azar Safari

 

 

States' Obligation to Protect Against Human Rights Violations by Non-State Actors "

 

Ahmad Moballeghi

 

 

 

Coalition of cultures and its Effects on Promotion of Humanity Concepts

 

 

 

 

 

 Panel  2

Friday 25 November 2011

Time 

 Speaker

Topic

9-10 :30

Chair :

Hajar Azari

 

Abdollah Bagheri

 

 

 

The role of the "intellect" as one of the sources of lawmaking in updating Islamic Laws in order to protection of women victims' rights.

 

 Ratna Kapur

 

Un-Veiling Equality: Disciplining the “Other” Woman through Human Rights Discourse

 

Reza Musazadeh:

Interaction Between Law and Culture in the Field of Human Rights

 

10:30-11

 

Break

11-12:30

 

Masoumeh Solgi

 

Gholamreza Zakizadeh

 

Human Rights in Imam Ali’s Government    

 

Soumitra Subinaya

 

Conceptualizing A Human-Rights-Friendly and more Humanitarian “Freedom” and “Justice” from a Woman, Tribal and Transgender Perspective: Empowering the marginalized through Legal Literacy

 

Nadaraja A/L Kannan

 

Myanmar : The struggle for the return to democracy rule

 

12:30-14

 

Lunch

14-15:30

 

 

Mehdi Shabannia Mansour

 

Mohammad Javad Shabannia Mansour

 

 

Freedom of speech for non-Malaysian citizens under Federal Constitution of Malaysia and Universal Declaration Human Rights: A comparative study

 

 Daniel Aguirre

 

 

 

Development and Community Rights: A Human Rights Based Approach

 

 

Riaz Ahmad

 

 

 

Minority Rights as an Instrument of a Dignified Human Existence: India’s Response to Diversity

 

15:30-16

 

 

 

Break

16-17:30

 

Seyed Ebrahim Hosseini

 

 

Observance of Human Rights in Islam

 

 

Mesbah Ansari

 

Intercultural Cognition and Human Rights

 

Hasan Savari

 

 

The Protection of Historic and Cultural Property in Light of Prohibition of Superfluous Injury

 

 

 

 

 

 Panel  1

Saturday 26 November 2011

Time 

 Speaker

Topic

9-10 :30

Chair :

Anna Müller-Funk

What part should duty play in moral motivation?A discussion of Kant’s Categorical Imperative

 

 

 Louis Edward Wolcher

 

 

The Problem of Unity and Diversity in International Human Rights

 

Mohammad Hasan Zeyaeifar

 

Challenges Facing Synergy and Concomitance of Culture and Human Rights in the Contemporary World- The Iranian Experience

 

10:30-11

 

Break

11-12:30

 

Hossein Sharifi Tarazkuhi

 

The Cultural Common Teachings, Human Rights' Fundamental Norms and Global Citizenship

 

 

Nghia Hoang

 

Dignity and Tolerance: Core, Transcendent and  Cross Cultural Values  of Human Rights

 

Mohd. Azizuddin bin Mohd Sani

 

 

Human Dignity as an  Alternative to Human Rights : Malaysia’s Argument to Protect Communitarianism

 

12:30-14

 

Lunch

14-15:30

 

 

Seyed Bagher Mirabbasi

 

 

The Right to Development and Human Rights Law

 

Alireza Hojjatzadeh

 

 

The Role of Internet in the Development of Teaching Human Rights

 

Mohammad Ali Shahbazi :

 

 

 

Cultural Diversity and Armed Conflicts: Exploring the cultural factor in breaching humanitarian law from protection of civilians point of view

 

15:30-16

 

 

 

Break

16-17:30

Mohammad-Javad Javid

 

Esmat Shahmoradi

 

 

Natural Challenges of Cultures in Support of Humanity

 

Edel Hughes

 

Freedom of religion, expression, information and communication in times of peace and war

 

‘Crosses to Bear: Symbolism and Secularism at the European Court of Human Rights’

 

Kirtiraj Dadarao Champatrao

 

Plight of North Indian Migrants: A Case of Human Rights Violation in Pune City in Maharashtra

 

 

 

 

 

Panel  2

Saturday 26 November 2011 

Time 

 Speaker

Topic

9-10 :30

 

1- Linda Briskman

 

Never the twain shall meet: Border security, human security and human rights

 

Kamran Hashemi

 

Islam and Intra- Muslim Regional Human Rights Mechanisms

 

Mohsen Mohebbi

 

Cultural Diversity in Int'l Civil Society : A Way to Secure Human Rights

 

10:30-11

 

Break

11-12:30

 

1- Mahya Saffarinia

 

 

Parents’ right to choose the kind of their children’s education; the role of culture in human development

 

Dinesh Kumar

Protection of Cultural Rights under the Indian Constitution: An Analysis

 

Tahereh  Jalili

3-

An enquiry into evolution of humanitarians interventions in to responsibility to protect (Dose this evolution work?)

 

 

12:30-14

 

Lunch

14-15:30

 

 

 Aramesh Shahbazi

 

 

Cultural Diversity and Substantial Unity in international Law of Humanity: Contradiction or Interaction

 

 Branislav Radeljic

 

 

 

Islam  as a Challenge to European Tolerance

 

Seyyed  Mehdi Parsae &

Jafar Yaghoubi

 

 

 

 

 

Challenges to Operationalizing the R2P  in Libya by UNSC and NATO

 

15:30-16

 

 

 

Break

16-17:30

1- William O. Beeman

 

 

Artists, Human Rights, Freedom of Expression and the Advancement of Human Understanding

 

2- Ahad Sadikov

 

A historical Survey in the viewof human rights

 

Samira Ahmadi

Faraz Firouzimandi

 

Securing Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in light of a Social Market Economy: The Case of Right to Social Security