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A World Civilisation or a Clash of Civilisations Conference: Speakers and sessions

Speakers

Conference speakers will include:  

• Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London
• Daniel Pipes, Director Middle East Forum
  
  
• David Aaronovitch, Times columnist and author
• Tariq Ali, Writer
• Anita Anand, BBC radio presenter
• Dr. Abdul Bari, Secretary General, Muslim Council of Britain
• Martin Bright, Political Editor, New Statesman
• Milena Buyum, National Assembly Against Racism
• Alastair Crooke, Director, Conflicts Forum
• Doudou Diène, UN Special Rapporteur on Racism and Xenophobia
• Professor Danny Dorling, specialist in Human Geography
• Gavin Esler, BBC’s Newsnight Presenter
• Denis Fernando, Lesbian and Gay Coalition Against Racism
• Jonathan Freedland, Journalist
• Professor Conor Gearty, Rausing Director, Centre for the Study of Human Rights
• Soumaya Ghannoushi, Research Director IslamExpo
• Richard Hermer, Barrister, Doughty Street Chambers
• Kirsten Hearne, REGARD
• Andrés Izarra, Venezuela's TeleSur TV
• Doug Jewell, Liberty
• Oliver Kamm, Times columnist and author
• Mejindarpal Kaur, Director, United Sikhs
• Bruce Kent, Peace Campaigner
• Antony Lerman, Executive Director, Institute for Jewish Policy Research
• Maleiha Malik, Kings College London
• Douglas Murray
• Karma Nabulsi, Fellow and Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Oxford University
• Susan Nathan, Writer
• Cristina Odone, Columnist
• Alasdair Palmer, Telegraph
• Agnès Poirier, political and cultural commentator
• Karmvir Singh, Human rights campaigner
• Professor Tariq Ramadan, Senior Research fellow at St Antony's College (Oxford)
• Nilam Vyas, Hindu Council UK
• Councillor Salma Yaqoob

Conference sessions

To include:

• Is Britain becoming more segregated?
• Can there be progressive colonialism?
• Multicultural London – does it work?
• The media in the age of global communications
• Anti-Semitism: the prototype for other racisms
• Defending freedom of thought, conscience and religion
• Is there an Islamic threat?
• Enlightenment values and modern society
• Civil liberties - counter terrorism and torture
• Democratic solutions for the Middle East

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