Ethical Norms in A Political World: NGO’s Human Rights and the Arab-Israeli Conflict…June 14, 2006- Begin Heritage Center, Jerusalem

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Ethical Norms in a Political World: NGOs, Human Rights
and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

June 14, 2006 – Begin Heritage Center, Jerusalem

Keynote Speaker Natan Sharansky, M.K.

9.30 Registration

10:00 Welcome: Harry Hurwitz, Begin Center

Prof. Gerald Steinberg, Director, Program on Conflict Management and Negotiation Bar Ilan University, Editor NGO Monitor: The Durban Strategy, NGOs and Human Rights

10:30- 12:00 NGOs, Human Rights and Political Power

12:00- 13:30 NGOs and the Media – Is There a Halo Effect?

14:30- 16:00 Government Funding for NGOs and the “Hamas Dilemma”

16:15- 17:45 NGOs, Human Rights, and International Law

18:00 Keynote Address:Natan Sharansky, M.K.

Democracy, Dictatorship, and Human Rights NGOs

Speakers include:

Harel Ben-Ari, Former Legal Counsel to Israeli Embassy, The Hague

Dr Gershon Baskin, Israel/Palestine Center for research and information (IPCRI)

Dr. Avi Bell, Bar-Ilan University

John Bell, Search for Common Ground

Dan Diker, Israel Channel 1, English News

Uri Dromi, Israel Democracy Institute

Dr. Michael Ehrlich, Bar-Ilan University, formerly Amnesty International-Israel

Orli Gil, Head of NGO Unit, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Isi LeiblerIsrael Diaspora Committee of the Jerusalem Council for Public Affairs.

Sarah Mandel, NGO Monitor

Ambassador Gideon Meir, Media and Public Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Daniel Meron, International Organizations & Human Rights Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Hillel C. Neuer, UN Watch

Benjamin Pogrund, Yakar

Prof. Michla Pomerance, Hebrew University

Danny Rubinstein, Ha’aretz

Dr. Olli Ruohomäki, Representative Office of Finland

Daniel Seideman, Ir Amim

Colonel Shlomi Am Shalom, Deputy I.D.F Spokesperson

Saul Singer, Jerusalem Post

Simon Wilson, BBC Bureau Chief

The program will be presented in English

Please register to ensure your place conference2006@ngo-monitor.org

For more information see www.ngo-monitor.org

Ethical Norms in A Political World: NGO’s Human Rights and the Arab-Israeli Conflict…June 14, 2006- Begin Heritage Center, Jerusalem

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