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PUBLIC PROGRAMME
08:30 Arrival (please arrive early due to security check)
09:00 Welcome
MP Mrs. Karen J. Klint, the Social Democratic Party, Chairwoman of the Ecclesiastical Affairs Committee
09:10 Official Opening
Dean Anders Gadegaard, Chairman of the National Council of Churches in Denmark
Imam Abdul Wahid Pedersen, Muslim Council of Denmark
09:20 Interfaith Dialogue as Instrument in Policy Processes Overcoming Religious Extremism
Mr. Peter Mandaville, Senior Advisor on religion and global affairs in the US Department of State
09:50 Engaging Civil Society in Countering Extremism
Danish minister/MP tba
10:00 Preventive action against radicalism in Arab context
Dr. Mohammad al-Sammak, General Secretary of the Christian-Muslim Committee for Dialogue in Lebanon
10:20 Religious freedom and interfaith dialogue
MP Mr. Martin Lidegaard, the Social Liberal Party, former Minister of Foreign Affairs
10:30 Questions
10:45 Coffee Break
11:00 Religious Refutation of Extremism
Sheikh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi, Syrian Islamic Scholar
11:25 Countering Extremism in Denmark – Interfaith Approaches
Bishop Peter Skov-Jakobsen, Diocese of Copenhagen
11:45 Daily Actions Countering Extremism
Mrs. Natasha Al-Hariri, Alumni of Leaders of Interreligious Understanding
12:00 Debate
Dean Anders Gadegaard, Chairman of the National Council of Churches in Denmark
12:40 The Role of Interfaith Dialogue in an Advancing CVE Counter-Narrative
Mr. Maqsoud Kruse, Executive Director of Hedayah, International Center for Countering Violent Extremism,
UAE
12:55 Closing Remarks
Dean Anders Gadegaard, Chairman of the National Council of Churches in Denmark
Registration before 20 May 2016: stine.hoxbroe@danisharabdialogue.org
