Overview
Seville, Spain, 2-3 December 2014
OPENING SESSION
Mr. Manuel Gracia Navarro, President, Parliament of Andalusia
Mr. Diego Valderas Sosa, Vice-president, Junta of Andalusia
Mr. Ignacio Caraballo, President, Andalusian Fund of Municipalities for International Solidarity
Mr. Zahir Tanin, Vice-Chair, Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights
of the Palestinian People (English)
Mr. Claude Nicolet, Regional councillor, Nord Pas de Calais, President, Network for Decentralized Cooperation for Palestine, Representative of United Cities and Local Governments
Mr. Musa Amer Odeh, Representative of the State of Palestine, Ambassador to Spain
Key note presentation by:
Mr. Majed Bamya, First Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, State of Palestine
SESSION I: “Decentralized cooperation: local cooperation for development, humanitarian assistance and political actions”
Moderator:?Mr. Antonio Zurita, Director General, Andalusian Fund of Municipalities for International Solidarity (FAMSI)
Feedback from the International Conference of local authorities in solidarity with the Palestinian People:
Mr. Claude Nicolet, Regional councillor, Nord Pas de Calais, President, Network for Decentralized Cooperation for Palestine, Dunkerque
Initiatives of local authorities in solidarity with Palestine:
Mr. Othman Dawoud, Mayor of Qalqilya, State of Palestine
Mr. Francisco José Toajas Mellado, Working group of Local Development, United Cities and Local Governments
Boycott and divestment initiatives by local governments:
Mr. Joseph Schechla, Coordinator, Housing and Land Rights Network, Habitat International Coalition
Giza (PowerPoint)
Discussant:?Mr. Flavio Lotti, Director, Enti Locale per la pace
SESSION II: “Breaking the cycle of impunity”
Moderator:?Mr. Frank Barat, President, Palestine Legal Action Network, Brussels?
International law, human rights and the effects of prolonged occupation, including the situation in the Gaza Strip:
Mr. John Reynolds, Lecturer in international law, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Follow up to the Russell Tribunal on Palestine:
Mr. Pierre Galand, General Coordinator, Russell Tribunal on Palestine and President, European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine, Brussels
European Union mechanisms to establish accountability and end impunity:
Ms. Katarzyna Lemanska, Researcher on EU-Israel relations, Brussels?(English, PowerPoint)
Corporate responsibility: the case of businesses and companies profiting from the Israeli occupation
Ms. Lou Pingeot, Policy Advisor, Global Policy Forum, Doctoral candidate, McGill University, Montréal (PowerPoint)
Discussant:?Ms. Zulaiha Ismail, Executive Director, Perdana Global Peace Foundation, Kuala Lumpur
SESSION III: Campaigning for peace and justice for the Palestinian people
Moderator:?Ms. Felicia Eaves, Steering Committee Chair, US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, Washington, D.C.
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS Movement) and its economic impact:
Ms. Anna Baltzer, National Organizer, US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, St. Louis, Missouri (English, Spanish)
Mr. Mahmoud Nawajaa, General Coordinator, Palestinian BDS National Committee, Ramallah
Mr. Shir Hever, Economic researcher, Alternative Information Centre, G?ttingen (English)
Advancing the question of Palestine on campuses:
Mr. Rahim Kurwa, Member, Students for Justice in Palestine, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles (English)
Ms. Magali Thill, Coordinator, Red Solidaria contra la Ocupación de Palestina, Madrid
Mr. Suleiman Rashid, Coordinator, Asociacion Europea de Cooperacion con Palestina, Malaga
Mr. Gavan Kelly, Coordinator of Advocacy Unit, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Ramallah (English)
Discussant:?Mr. Pedro Ferraracio Charbel, Member, Front in Defense of the Palestinian People, S?o Paulo
SESSION IV: The plight of Palestinian political prisoners and detainees including women and children
Moderator:?Mr. Simone Giovetti, Project Officer, Cités Unies France, Paris
Mr. Majed Bamya, Free Marwan Barghouti and all Palestinian Political Prisoners Campaign, First Secretary, in-charge of the Palestinian prisoners’ portfolio, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, State of Palestine, Ramallah?
SESSION V: Palestine and the media
Moderator:?Mr. Simone Giovetti, Project Officer, Cités Unies France, Paris
Dealing with traditional media: challenges and opportunities:
Ms. Carmen Rengel, Freelance journalist, Cadena Ser
The social media battle in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the use of infographics and creative visuals
Mr. Ramzi Jaber, Co-founder, Visualizing Impact, Montréal
Influencing Israeli and Palestinian public opinion:
Mr. Mohammad Barakeh, Member of the Knesset
Mr. Daoud Talhami, Author, Nazareth
Discussant:?Ms. Aneta Jerska, Coordinator, European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine, Brussels?