Written by Administrator | 15 June 2010

Dr Yiorghos Leventis, Executive Director of International Security Forum, Cyprus and an Allumni Postdoctoral Fellow of the United Nations University (UNU) HQ, Tokyo (2004-06), participated in the 23rd Annual Meeting of The Academic Council on the UN System - ACUNS, held in Vienna, Austria. Debates of the 2010 ACUNS Meeting centred on the theme  of responses to New Security Challenges. 

The 23rd ACUNS Meeting was addressed, inter alia, by Danilo Turk, President of Slovenia; Kandeh Yumkella, Director-General, United Nations Industrial Development Organization; Barbara Prammer, President, Austrian National Council; Mary Robinson, Former UN HC for Human Rights; Manfred Nowak, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; Bertrand Ramcharan, Former UN Deputy HC for Human Rights.

During the three day 2010 ACUNS Meeting in Vienna, Dr Leventis had the opportunity  to expose the work of the International Security Forum, Cyprus to the 350 participants. In this context he held briefings with his opposite number, ACUNS Executive Director Patricia Goff;  Prof. Ramesh Thakur, former UNU Senior Vice Rector and UN Assistant SG, Michael Moller,  Executive Director Kofi Annan Foundation, Geneva (former UN SR in Cyprus 2006-08); Lakhdar Brahimi, former UN Secretary-General Special Adviser. 

Dr Leventis also met with Dr Jeffrey Henderson, Director of Studies, UGSM - Monarch Business School. The University of Graduate Management Studies Monarch is proudly sponsoring the International Security Forum activities.

Written by Administrator | 15 May 2010

International Day Conference, Saturday, 29 May 2010

Palm Beach Hotel (www.palmbeachhotel.com), Larnaka, Cyprus

Marking the first anniversary of its successful operation the International Security Forum organizes a day conference on The Future Architecture of European & Global Security. The topics to be debated focus on nuclear disarmament (new START & NPT Treaties), UN reform, the role of NATO, ESDP, the US, the UK, Greece and Cyprus, the Scandinavian countries and Russia in building European and global security.

9:00: Welcoming Address: Dr Yiorghos Leventis,  Ex. Director, International Security Forum

9:10 – 11:00 am: Panel I: Global Security: UN Reform and Nuclear Disarmament

Mr. Shahriar Mahmoud Sharei (Shareholder Synergix International LLC, Dubai; Vice President of Democratic World Federalists (DWF), San Francisco, California, USA; Council Member, World Federalist Movement (WFM), New York, USA & Den Haag, Netherlands; Executive Committee Member, World Alliance to Transform UN (WATUN) Guadalajara, Mexico; Campaign for United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA), Berlin, Germany):

The 2010 NPT Review Conference - A Synopsis

Dr. Yiorghos Leventis (Director, International Security Forum, Lefkosia, Cyprus): In Search of Comprehensive Security: Five Reasons Why 2010 is Crucial Turning Point

Mr. Shahriar Mahmoud Sharei: The Challenge of Nuclear Disarmament: Dis-invent the Bomb or Re-invent the UN?

Written by Administrator | 19 January 2010

Dr Yiorghos Leventis, Director of International Security Forum Cyprus, accepted an invitation extended by Dr Hidemitsu Kuroki, Director of the Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies (JaCMES) to participate in an International Workshop on the Future of Iraq: Social, Economic and Political Issues in Question. The workshop which took place at Crowne Plaza Hotel, Beirut, forms part of a couple of series of seminars under the themes Conflict, Collapsed State and Social Movements in the Contemporary sponsored by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and Searching for New Notion of Area and Coexistence: Bridging Middle East and Asia, Needs-based Programme for Area Studies, sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan. Both programmes are under the direction of Professor Keiko Sakai, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS).

The programme of the international workshop can be found at:

http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/fsc/meis/WS_Beirut100116_e.pdf.

In the margins of the Iraq international workshop held during the weekend of 16-17 January 2010, Dr Leventis was afforded the opportunity to exchange views on world affairs and the role of Japan in particular, with Dr Hidemitsu Kuroki and other panelists and participants. He returned to Lefkosia on Sunday 17 January. 

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Written by Administrator | 23 December 2009

Dr Yiorghos Leventis, Director of International Security Forum Cyprus, participapted in his capacity as a member of the British International Studies Association (BISA)  in the 34^th BISA Annual Conference, held at Leicester University, UK, 14-16 December 2009. At the conference, approximately 350 participants from various parts of the world presented papers and engaged in debates on British, European and World Affairs.

Subsequently, Dr Leventis paid a visit to London 16-19 December, where he engaged in discussions with ISF-CY Research Associates Dr Rafael Leal-Arcas,  Senior Lecturer in International Economic Law & European Union Law, Queen Mary University of London and Mr. Zoran Ristic, Freelance Analyst, (M.A. in Mediterranean Studies, King's College, University of London) regarding the organization's 2010 expansion of activities. He returned to Lefkosia on 20 December 2009.

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