Workshop 2: Society-Security Relations

Workshop 2: Society-Security Relations

20 September 2006, PASSIA, Ramallah

Participant(s): Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Chairman of PASSIA; Knut Dethlefsen, Director of FES, Jerusalem; Dr. Asem Khalil, Acting Director of Research, Institute of Law, Birzeit University; Dr. Azmi Shuai’bi, General Coordinator for Transparency Palestine; Ahmad Issa, Intelligence & International Affairs Department, Ministry of Interior, Gaza; Colonel Ziad Hab Ar-Rih, Head of Preventive Security, West Bank & Gaza; Bernt Berger, Research Associate, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy, Hamburg University; Roland Friedrich, Fellow DCAF; Katja Franke; FES; Royce Kuzwayo, Deputy Representative, South African Representative Office, Ramallah; Oham Brakash, Indian Representative, Ramallah; Ghazaleh Arar, Member, GUPT; Fadwa Shaer, Ministry of Interior;

Program

10:00-10:30        Opening Address              

Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Chairman of PASSIA

Mr. Knut Dethlefsen, Director of FES, Jerusalem

10:30-10:45        Session I: Society-Security Relations – Legal Aspects 

Dr. Asem Khalil, Lecturer, Birzeit Law Institute 

10.45-11:30        Session II: Society-Security Relations – Citizens’ Perspectives

                              Dr. Azmi Shuai’bi, General Coordinator for Transparency Palestine

11;30-12:00        Open Discussion

12:00-12:30        Society-Security Relations – Security Perspectives

Colonel Ziad Hab Ar-Rih, Head of Preventive Security, West Bank & Gaza

Mr. Ahmad Issa, Intelligence & International Affairs Department, Ministry of Interior, Gaza

12:30-13:00        Open Discussion

13:00-13:30        Session III: Society-Security Relations - Learning from the Lessons and Best Practices of Others

Bernt Berger, Research Associate, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy, Hamburg University

13:30-14:15        Open and Final Discussion

14:15-15:00        Lunch (at the Best Eastern Hotel, Ramallah)