DEMOCRACY AND GLOBAL ISLAM

April 22, 2005
Lipmann Room, Eighth Floor, Barrows Hall

U.C. Berkeley’s Center on Institutions and Governance, with the collaboration of Professor Olivier Roy of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, presents a major conference on Democracy and Global Islam, involving the participation of academics, experts, government officials, and political activists. Panels will include Globalization and its Impact on Muslim Practices, Globalization and its Impact on Islamic Doctrine, Islam and the Values of Democracy, and Islam and Conflict.

Participants:
Nezar AlSayyad, U.C. Berkeley; Olivier Roy, CNRS Paris; Farhad Khosrokhavar, EHESS Paris; Mustafa Ceric, Grand Mufti of Bosnia-Herzegovina; Saba Mahmood, U.C. Berkeley; Steven Fish, U.C. Berkeley; Marc Sageman, University of Pennsylvania; Abdoulaye Kane, University of Florida; Jocelyne Cesari, Harvard University; Khaled Abou El Fadl, UCLA; Tariq Ramadan, University of Fribourg, Switzerland; Dale Eickelman, Dartmouth College; John Lie, U.C. Berkeley; Bruce Cain, U.C. Berkeley; Robert Malley, International Crisis Group; Steven Cook, Council on Foreign Relations; Cheryl Bernard, Rand Corporation; Nadia Yassin, al-Adl wal-Ihsan Islamist Movement ; Quintan Wiktorowiczq, Rhodes College; Gunter Mulack, Ambassador at the German Foreign Office, Berlin; Justo Lacunza Balda, Pontifical Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies

Co-sponsored by the Institute of European Studies and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.