In Conversation With International Public Policy Makers: Can Film Contribute To Peace Promotion?
Presented by Global Council for Tolerance and Peace
TIME
Saturday, August 13th, 2022
14:30 – 15:30 (CET)
LOCATION
Hotel Europe Atrium
If art and culture bring public benefits, create social bonds, and express communal meaning, how can we harness the power of film to promote peace? Acknowledging the importance of public policies in the arts and culture, we have gathered international public policy-makers to share their experience. Together, we will look at different approaches to developing impactful cultural public policies, fostering film to become a catalyst for a more sustainable and innovative future.
Speakers
- H.E Ahmed Aljarwan - President of the Global Council for Tolerance and Peace (GCTP) / AE
- Mr. Amer Kapetanović - Head of Political department, Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) / BA
- Ms. Bedrana Ribo - Member of Parliament of Austria / AT
- Mr. Ralf Melzer - Director, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Dialogue Southeast Europe / DE
- H.E. Ranko Krivokapić - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro / ME
Moderated by
- Mr. Harun Karčić - Executive Producer / BA
H.E AHMED ALJARWAN
H.E AHMED ALJARWAN is the founder and the president of the Global Council for Tolerance and Peace, and the President of the Arab Expert Union. He was a member of the Feder National Council of the United Arab Emirates, and a President of the Arab Parliament for two consecutive rounds. The Arab Parliament is the legislative body of the Arab League created at the Arab League Summit of 2001-Amman. He was a diplomat of the UAE in Great Britain and the United States of America for several years. H.E Aljarwan was a Member of the Board of Directors of the Sharjah Chamber of Commerce & Industry from 2008-2013. H.E Aljarwan holds a master’s degree in aerospace engineering and a master’s degree in political science. With nearly 40 years of experience to his credit, Mr. Al Jarwan excels as the president of the Arab Experts Union and the Global Council for Tolerance and Peace, which aims to promote the value of tolerance and a culture of peace, to fight against discrimination, religious sectarianism, and ethnocentrism, to develop the norms of international law, and to strengthen the principles of tolerance for achieving peace. Established in 2017, the organization is headquartered in Malta.
RANKO KRIVOKAPIĆ
RANKO KRIVOKAPIĆ is a Montenegrin politician serving as the minister of foreign affairs since 28 April 2022. He is a former long-term President of the Parliament of Montenegro from 2003 to 2016 and the President of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) from 2002 until his resignation in 2017. He is currently the honorary president of the SDP. He is the longest-serving President of the Parliament of Montenegro in the country's history. He was elected 12th President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE PA which is the greatest international post any Montenegrin has been elected until now. Also, Krivokapić is the first Slavic person elected to this post. He is the founder of the regional initiative Cetinje Parliamentary Forum. He has been awarded the Romanian national order, the medal of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church as well as many other awards.
BEDRANA RIBO
BEDRANA RIBO is an Austrian politician from the Green Party. She has been a member of the National Council since October 23, 2019. She attended elementary school in her native town of Travnik in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1992 she came to Austria. After secondary school in Graz, she graduated from the commercial academy in Monsbergergasse, where she graduated from high school in 2003. She then began studying business administration at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz, which she completed in 2011 as a Bachelor of Science. She completed a subsequent master's degree in Global Studies in 2015 as a Master of Arts. From 2012 to 2013, Ribo was a district councilor in the Jakomini district of Graz and from 2012 to 2015 a member of the city party board of the Grünen Graz, from 2013 as finance officer. In 2015 she became a member of the municipal council of the city of Graz. In the Green Parliament Club, she is the spokeswoman for senior citizens and care.
RALF MELZER
RALF MELZER, born in 1967, is a German historian and journalist and since 2004 staff member of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), a non-profit political foundation close to the German social democratic party SPD. Among a variety of responsibilities in Germany and abroad he served as the foundation’s resident director in Tunisia, as the head of the foundation’s working unit on combatting right-wing extremism and as the head of the FES office in Munich. Since 2020, he has been the director of the FES regional office Dialogue Southeast Europe based in Sarajevo. He intensively published on the German history in the 20th century, on anti-Semitism and on the political far right as well as on the Western Balkans. He holds a Ph.D. in Modern History from the Freie Universität Berlin.
AMER KAPETANOVIĆ
AMER KAPETANOVIĆ has been working as a diplomat for two decades. Before moving to the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC), where he is currently serving as Head of the Political Department, Kapetanovic was Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of BiH, MFA BiH spokesman, Head of MFA BiH EU Department, Minister-Counsellor in BH Embassy in FR Germany, reporter, and columnist. He was the President of Trustees of BH Film Fund, helping the BH Film industry get closer to EU funds, thus paving the way for membership in specially designed EU programs. He graduated in political science at the University of Sarajevo and attended a fellowship program at the Queen Mary University of London. He is author and co-author of dozens of publications, books, and research. Married to Tatjana Kapetanović and has two daughters, Lana and Juli.