One day ISSI (CAMEA) – FES International Conference

One day ISSI (CAMEA) – FES International Conference
“Pakistan in the Emerging Geopolitical Landscape”
24 April, 2024
1030 hrs – 1730 hrs
Inaugural Session
1030 hrs – 1130 hrs
● Welcome Remarks by Amina Khan, Director CAMEA
● Remarks by Ambassador Sohail Mahmood, Director General ISSI
● Remarks by Dr. Almut Wieland-Karimi, Country Director FES Pakistan
● Remarks by Chief Guest: Ambassador Asif Durrani, Pakistan’s Special
Representative on Afghanistan
Working Session I
Unraveling Afghanistan’s Shifting Landscape
1200 hrs- 1300 hrs
● Moderator: Amina Khan, Director CAMEA
● Rangina Hamidi, Former Minister of Education of Afghanistan
● Prof. Victoria C. Fontan, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs,
American University of Afghanistan, Qatar
● Ambassador Mohammad Sadiq, Pakistan’s former Special Representative for
Afghanistan
● Dr. Ye Hailin, Professor and Vice Dean of the National Institute of International
Strategy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (NIIS, CASS)
● Dr. Foad Izadi, Associate Professor. Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran
● Q & A Session
Lunch in ISSI Lawn 1300-1400 hrsWorking Session II
From Dependency to Diversity: The Evolution of the Middle East
1400 hrs – 1500 hrs
● Moderator: Dr. Shabana Fayyaz, Chairperson and Associate Professor,
Department of Defence and Strategic Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad
● Dr. Ali Bakir, Assistant Professor Ibn Khaldon Center for Humanities and Social
Sciences at Qatar University
● Dr. Jahangir Karami, Member of the Scientific Council of IRAS and professor at the
University of Tehran
● Dr. Hanan AlHajeri, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University
of Kuwait
● Ambassador Riffat Masood, Pakistan’s former Ambassador to Iran
● Dr. Moatamer Amin, Assistant Professor at The British University in Egypt
● Adam Weinstein, Deputy Director Middle East Program Quincy Institute for
Responsible Statecraft
Q & A Session
Working Session III
Rising Non-Conventional Security Threats in Afghanistan, Central Asia, and the
Middle East
1530 hrs – 1630 hrs
● Moderator: Dr. Simbal Khan, Conflict Prevention and Stabilization Expert at
UNDP Pakistan
● Ambassador Hamid Bayat, Senior Researcher Institute for Political and
International Studies (IPIS), Iran
● Dr. Alexander Kornilov, Prof. Dr. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod
● Dr. Mona Kanwal Sheikh, Head of the Global Security And Worldviews Unit,
Danish Institute for International Studies, (DIIS)
● Dr. Hu Shisheng, Senior Research Fellow and the Director of the Institute for South
Asian Studies at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR)● Dr. Flavius CABA-MARIA, President and Director of the Political Department,
Middle East Political and Economic Institute (MEPEI), Romania
● Dr. Islomkhon Gafarov, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Afghanistan and
South Asian Studies, Institute for Advanced International Studies
● Ali Latifi, Staff Reporter and Commissioning Editor, Asia, The New Humanitarian
Q & A Session
Concluding Session
1630 hrs – 1730 hrs
● Reflections by Ambassador Khalid Mahmood, Chairman ISSI
● Remarks by Hamayun Khan, Programme Advisor, FES Pakistan