“Canaries in the Coal Mine or why autocrats are going to increasing lenghts to try and silence journalists and human rights defenders” – Tuesday, June 8, 2021, at 12.00

Invitation to an online lecture

«Canaries in the Coal Mine or why autocrats are going to increasing lenghts to try and silence journalists and human rights defenders»

Tuesday, 8 June 2021 at 12.00
(online at the link: https://authgr.zoom.us/j/98987728687?pwd=bm9ScXhuc1pBTUsrSk9DZExPaitUZz09)

The Jean Monnet Chair “The Fundamentals of European Integration: Democracy, Institutions and Policies” of the Department of Political Sciences of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki invites you to the lecture by

Mr. Andrew Anderson

Executive Director of Front Line Defenders

entitled

«Canaries in the Coal Mine or why autocrats are going to increasing lenghts to try and silence journalists and human rights defenders»

The lecture will take place on Tuesday, 8 June 2021, at 12.00

online through the platform zoom

https://authgr.zoom.us/j/98987728687?pwd=bm9ScXhuc1pBTUsrSk9DZExPaitUZz09 Meeting ID: 989 8772 8687 and password 749328

Andrew Anderson was appointed Executive Director of Front Line Defenders (https://www.frontlinedefenders.org) in November 2016.  He previously served as Deputy Director since March 2003. Front Line Defenders was founded in Dublin in 2001 with the specific aim of protecting human rights defenders at risk (HRDs), people who work, non-violently, for any or all of the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Front Line Defenders addresses the protection needs identified by HRDs themselves and was awarded the UN Prize for Human Rights in 2018. Prior to joining Front Line Defenders, Andrew worked at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International as Director of the Campaigning and Crisis Response Programme and then Director of the Africa Programme. He was a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York, the Board of Trustees of the Tactical Technology Collective and the Board of Trustees of the Sudan Social Development Organisation UK. He represents Front Line Defenders on the Board of the EU Human Rights Defenders Mechanism.

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“The international role of small states: the role of Norway in international relations and conflict resolution” – Wednesday, June 2, 2021, at 10.00

Invitation to an online lecture

«The international role of small states: the role of Norway in international relations and conflict resolution»

Wednesday, 2 June 2021 at 10.00
(online at the link: https://authgr.zoom.us/j/98987728687?pwd=bm9ScXhuc1pBTUsrSk9DZExPaitUZz09)

The Jean Monnet Chair “The Fundamentals of European Integration: Democracy, Institutions and Policies” of the Department of Political Sciences of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki invites you to the lecture by

Mr. Andreas Gaarder

Norwegian Diplomat

entitled

«The international role of small states: the role of Norway in international relations and conflict resolution»

The lecture will take place on Wednesday, 2 June 2021, at 10.00

online through the platform zoom

https://authgr.zoom.us/j/98987728687?pwd=bm9ScXhuc1pBTUsrSk9DZExPaitUZz09 Meeting ID: 989 8772 8687 and password 749328

Andreas Gaarder is a Norwegian diplomat. He is currently Director general at the Department of Financial and Human Resources the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has studied economics at the university of Oslo, where he also received an MA in economics, and holds an MSc in political economy from the LSE. He joined the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1990. He has served as a Norwegian diplomat in various positions in Cairo, Geneva, Paris and Stockholm, as a Deputy Head of Mission at the Norwegian Embassy to Berlin (2004 – 2008) and as Ambassador to Ethiopia and the African Union (2014 – 2018).

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“Europe as a soft power: advantages and disadvantages of the EU’s international action” – Monday, 17 May 2021 at 18.00

Invitation to an online lecture

«Europe as a soft power: advantages and disadvantages of the EU’s international action»

Monday, 17 May 2021 at 18.00
(online at the link: https://authgr.zoom.us/j/98987728687?pwd=bm9ScXhuc1pBTUsrSk9DZExPaitUZz09)

The Jean Monnet Chairs “The Fundamentals of European Integration: Democracy, Institutions and Policies” of the Department of Political Sciences and “European Constitutional Law and Constitutional Culture” of the Law School in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki invite you to the lecture by

Mr. Christos Stylianides

Professor and advisor of Commission Vice-President M. Schoinas

entitled

«Europe as a soft power: advantages and disadvantages of the EU’s international action»

The lecture will take place on Monday 17 May at 18.00 as a hybrid event:

in room 319 of the Law School building for a limited number of guests and online through the platform zoom

https://authgr.zoom.us/j/98987728687?pwd=bm9ScXhuc1pBTUsrSk9DZExPaitUZz09 (Meeting ID: 989 8772 8687 and password 749328)

Mr. Christos Stylianides has served as European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management (2014-19) and was also the EU Ebola Coordinator. From these positions he made a significant contribution to strengthening the EU’s role as a global ‘soft power’.

Today he is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Health Policy at the London School of Economics (LSE), an academic member at the Medical School of the University of Nicosia-Cyprus and a Visiting Professor at the Ruhr Universität Bochum (RUB) Research School in Germany. He is also an advisor of Commission Vice-President M. Schoinas on training in crisis areas, as well as on migration and integration.

He was elected as a MEP in the May 2014 European elections. He was twice appointed Government spokesperson of Cyprus (2013-2014 and 1998-1999). Between 2006 and 2013 he served as a member of the Cyprus House of Representatives (elected in 2006 and 2011). Between 2006 and 2011 he was a member of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and a member of its Bureau in 2012. He has been declared “Global Champion for Education in Emergencies” by the international organization Education Cannot Wait (ECW) and “Political Champion for Education in Emergencies” by the Malala Foundation for its dedication and contribution to education in crisis areas.

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