March 21 (Friday)

9:00-9:30  Opening Remarks

Moderator: Prof. CHEN Dongxiao

Speakers: Mr. SU Fangqiu       Prof. YANG Jiemian

9:30 Session One: CICA and New Security Concept in Asia

Moderator: CHEN Dongxiao  

Topics for Discussion: 

(1)  How does the New Security Concept for Asia outmatch the old concept of Asian security? What are the major challenges for promoting New Security Concept? How can CICA make contribution to the New Security Concept?

(2)  How does the New Concept reflect Asia’s uniqueness? How to reach a consensus concerning security and promote the New Security Concept through CICA? How to translate Asian countries’ common aspiration for peace and development into core values of the New Security Concept? 

Speakers: 

Prof. Fedor LUKYANOV 

Amb. GAO Yusheng

Prof. Ahmad Reza DANESHKHOU 

Prof. PAN Guang 

Amb. Sohail AMIN 

Prof. SHENG Shiliang 

Prof. Shairbek DZHURAEV 

11:10  Session Two: CICA and Asia’s Security Mechanism

Moderator: Prof. Fedor LUKYANOV 

Topics for Discussion: 

(1)  How to identify CICA members’ common security threats and prioritize them? How to respond to common threats by enhanced coordination? How to strike a balance between commonality and uniqueness of Asian security issues? 

(2)  How should CICA position itself in the security framework of Asia? How to defined CICA’s role in relation to other security institutions in Asia? How to construct and evolve  Asia’s security Mechanism?

Speakers: 

 Prof. Viktor LARIN 

 Prof. NIU Xinchun 

 Prof. Dmytro VYDRIN 

 Prof. XING Guangcheng 

 Prof. Kamer KASIM 

 Prof. FENG Shaolei 

14:00 Session Three: Regional Economic Integration and Economic Cooperation between CICA member states

Moderator: Christophe BAHUET

Topics for Discussion: 

(1)  How to evaluate the trend of economic integration in CICA? How to coordinate regional development and security concerns to meet the requests from developing countries?

(2)  How to promote CICA’s trade and investment facilitation? How could CICA make contribution to the development of regional FTAs?

(3)  What is Shanghai’s unique advantage in promoting CICA members’ economic and trade cooperation?

Speakers:  

 Prof. Denis SUSLOV 

 Prof. LI Xin 

 Prof. Arun MOHANTY 

 Prof. LIU Shuang 

 Prof. Aidar AMREBAYEV 

 Prof. SHI Ze 

 Prof. Vladimir POPOV 

16:00 Session Four: Building the New Silk Road by Joint Efforts

Moderator: Prof.LI Xin 

Topics for Discussion:

(1)  How could the initiative of Silk Road Economic Belt contribute to regional integration? How to promote practical cooperation by jointly building the Silk Road?

(2)  How to help the reconstruction, transformation and development of countries in need through the process of building the Silk Road Economic Belt? How to maximize CICA’s role as a bridge connecting West Asia, Central Asia, and South Asia? What could CICA members do to give development assistance to Afghanistan, and countries in transition in West Asia and North Africa? How to promote regional peace through developmentcooperation? 

Speakers:

Prof. Christophe BAHUET

Prof. YANG Guang 

Prof. Najam RAFIQUE

Prof. YE Hailing 

Prof. Huseyin BAGCI 

Prof. WU Bingbing

Dr. Ruslan IZIMOV 

March 22 (Saturday) 

9:00 Session Five: Prospects for Cultural Cooperation and People-to-People Exchange

Moderator: Amb. GAO Yusheng 

Topics for Discussion: 

(1)  What are the challenges and opportunities for cultural exchange and people-to-people exchange among CICA members?

(2)  How to promote cross-cultural and cross-civilization exchanges?

(3)  How to facilitate cooperation and exchange between East and West Asia?

Speakers: 

Prof. WANG Jian

Prof. Khudoberdi KHOLIKNAZAROV 

Prof. WANG Wei 

Prof. Thembisa FAKUDE 

Prof. ZHU Weilie 

Prof. Winichai CHAEMCHAENG

Prof. FENG Yujun 

11:00 Session Six: Establishing the CICA Council of Think tanks?

Speaker: Prof. YANG Jiemian  

Topics for Discussion

(1)  What are think-tanks’ unique role in people-to-people exchanges?

(2)  CICA Council of think-tanks: its role, direction, and approach.

11:50-12:00  Closing Remarks