Future of the Balkans: Lessons Learnt and Not Learnt
24 November 2004, Budapest
09.00 Opening words by Gen. Dr. József Holló,
Welcome: Hungarian Minister of Defense
09.15-11.00 First panel: keynote speeches
· Opening speech: Jamie Shea, Deputy Assistant Secretary General of NATO: NATO Operations in the Balkans: Struggling with the History of the Region and of NATO
· H.E. Vlado Buchkovski, MoD, Macedonia: How the Republic of Macedonia Learnt to Live with its History and How it Will Overcome it?
· Dr. Milan Pajevic, Director of G-17 Institute: How Can Serbia Overcome its Historical Legacy?
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-13.00 Second panel, The past: the roots of the conflicts
· Professor István Czigány, War History Institute, Hungary: Roots of the Militarization of the Balkan's Societies
· Colonel István Magyar, Hungarian Military Intelligence Bureau: Chronology and Stages of the Disintegration Process
· Dr. Mihály Szacsky, Technical University of Budapest: The Nature of Individual and Collective Aggression
· Comments and Questions
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14.30-16.00 Third panel, The future: lessons learnt or not learnt
· Professor József Juhász, University of Sciences Budapest: Lessons Learnt and Provisional Way Ahead
· Professor Mladen Stanicic, Director of Institute for International Relations, Zagreb, Croatia: the European Integration of Croatia: Is History Help or Problem?
· Gen. Zoltán Szenes, CHOD: Hungarian Vision on the Peace Keepers' Future
· Comments and Questions
Closing remarks by Ambassador István Gyarmati, Chairman of CEID