The Third Annual Conference of October 6 University
(9 -10 May 2012)“Democracy and the Arab Spring: Opportunities and Challenges”
Under the auspices of
Prof. Dr. Hussein Khaled
Minister of Higher Education
Prof. Dr. Ahmed Attia Seida
President of October 6 University
Chair of the Conference Chair of the Organizing Committee
Prof. Dr. Ahmed Magdy Hegazy Dr. Kheireldin Abdellatif
Vice President for Education and Students Affairs Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees
The Third Conference
Democracy and the Arab Spring: Opportunities and Challenges
Introduction
The revolutions, protests and public uprisings in the halls of the Arab political scene of Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Bahrain and Syria raise a number of questions and problems that relate to the present ruling regimes and the future of citizens in the Arab states. The Arab citizen, as it seems, is every now and then haunted by the sense of anxiety for being denied the right to self-determination.
The Arab spring launched by revolutions of freedom and dignity places the Arab peoples at a defining moment of self-determination. This in turn imposes the necessity of reforming the status quo in the light of the recent changes, improving the citizens’ standard of living and quality of life and exploring the nations’ future. The Arab peoples have to acknowledge the great global, regional and local challenges ahead, in addition to the variables of modernity, the dangers of globalization, the mechanisms of competition and the futer of the Arabic Regional system versus Greater Middle East enterprise. Today’s world has become highly complicated with the changes in perspectives, the diversity of strategies, the modification of theories and thought, and the variety of interests and relations. This indeed necessitates a reconsideration of the dominating patterns of thought, which involve new insights, enlightening thought and analytical understanding. Hence, October 6 University chooses to organizes the third conference
“Democracy and the Arab Spring: Opportunities and Challenges”
Raising the Following Questions
- What type of democracy do the Arab peoples need?
- What is the future direction of the winds of the Arab Spring?
- Is the Arab World capable of achieving real democracy?
- What are the opportunities offered to and the challenges faced by the Arab Spring revolutions?
The Objectives of the Conference
1) Discussing and analyzing the concept of democracy in the world today
2) Displaying samples of the Arab Spring revolutions
3) Displaying the possibility of applying real democracy in the Arab World
4) Studying the challenges of applying democracy following the Arab Spring Revolutions
5) Finding ways of promoting the Arab World
6) A Future perspective : Opportunities and Challenges
The Issues of the Conference
Democratic Systems: Reality
- Globalization and the winds of revolutionary change
- Democracy and the revolution of cyberspace
- Global agenda and democracy in the Arab World
- Theoretical perspectives in the interpretation of contemporary revolutions
The Arab Spring: Selected Models
- The Arab Spring revolutions
- The Arab Spring and the specificity of the situation
- The factors behind the eruption of the Arab Spring revolutions
The Future of the Arab Spring: Opportunities and Challenges
- The Arab Spring post-revolution opportunities
- The Greater Middle East (the various agendas)
- The challenges of the Arab revolutions: Handling the consequences and challenges of the Arab revolutions
- The Arab Spring revolutions: Future scenarios
The Terms and Specifications of the Research Paper
- The paper must tackle one of the basic themes of the conference
- The paper must not exceed 20 pages including the references and appendices
- The paper must be written in “Times New Roman” font face as follows:
• The titles in font size 14
• The body in font size 12
- References and research sources must be in 250 words, A4 page type
- The paper must be submitted with a one page summary in Arabic and in English
- The paper and synopsis as specified above is to be sent to:
[email protected]
- The deadline for sending the required material is 15 March 2012
- For registration, please fill in the form on the university’s website
Participation fees (without submitting a paper)
- 100 EP for residents of the Arab Republic of Egypt
- 250 US Dollars (or its equivalent in any currency) for external applications
Participation fees (if submitting a paper)
- 200 EP for residents of the Arab Republic of Egypt
- 500 US Dollars (or its equivalent in any currency) for external applications
- The fees cover the registration and a two-night stay at a hotel
- For participation, kindly call the university, and after registering, the fees are either paid in cash or in a cheque payable to the Center of Public Service and Continuing Education:
Account number: 408468/02/016
Egypt-Iran Bank, O6U branch
Telephone number: 38369465
Fax number: 38369466
The university’s address: Sixth of October city – The central Axis behind Sixth of October city administration
The Institutions and Researchers Invited for Participation
1) The Egyptian, Arab and foreign universities
2) The Egyptian, Arab and foreign research centers
3) The researchers in the fields of political sciences, social sciences and humanities
4) Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies
5) Specialists in democracy and human rights
6) Center for Arab Unity Studies
7) Center for Middle Eastern Studies
8) National Center for Social and Criminological Research
9) Public figures interested in community affairs
10) Human rights organizations
11) The Supreme Council of Culture
12) The Specialized National Councils
The Third Annual Conference of October 6 University
“Democracy and the Arab Spring: Opportunities and Challenges”
Wednesday 9 May – Thursday 10 May 2012