COUNCIL OF EUROPE SEMINAR: "YOUTH AND CONFLICTS RESOLUTION - FRESH IDEA FOR PROMOTING PEACE"
Support A1+!Walter Schwimmer, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, expects a seminar beginning next Monday at the European Youth Centre in Strasbourg to provide added impetus and alternative ideas in the area of conflict resolution.
On the Secretary General's initiative, some thirty young people from conflict zones in and around Europe will meet up between 31 March and 2 April to discuss how to find peaceful solutions to major political problems.
The youngsters will draw up proposals aimed at resolving conflicts in regions other than their own.
Under the supervision of Ron Fischer (Canadian Professor of International Relations at the American University in Washington DC), Israelis and Palestinians will therefore discuss the situation in Cyprus together. Similarly, Armenians and Azerbaijanis will jointly tackle the problems in the Middle East (aided by Dr Marianne Heiberg, Senior Research Associate at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs in Oslo) and Greek and Turkish Cypriots will work together on the conflict in Nagorny-Karabakh (watched over by David Lloyd Stern, Caucasus and Central Asia correspondent for the Financial Times in London).
The results of the three groups' discussions will be presented at a Round Table chaired by Mr Schwimmer and attended by Peter Schieder, President of the 44-member Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly. Members of the press are cordially invited to attend the Round Table, which will take place from 3 pm to 6 pm on Wednesday 2 April in Room 3 of the Palais de l'Europe.
