Friday, 11 February, 2000
10:00 – 10:45 Opening Address
Hon. Professor Guido De Marco -
President of Malta
SESSION ONE: LANGUAGE AND DIPLOMACY
Chair – Professor Dietrich Kappeler – Former Director of Diplomatic Studies Program, Graduate
Institute of Diplomatic Studies, Geneva
11:15 – 12:00 Language and Negotiation: A Middle East Lexicon
Professor Raymond Cohen - Department of International Relations, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem
12:00 – 12:45 Language and Diplomacy
Ambassador Stanko Nick - Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
14:00 – 14:45 Interpretation of International Human Rights Instruments
Professor Vojin Dimitrijevic - Director of Belgrade Center for Human Rights
14:45 – 15:30 Historical Rhetoric and Diplomacy: An Uneasy Cohabitation
Drazen Pehar - Media Analyst, Office of the High Representative to Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Sarajevo
15:45 – 16:30 Deconstruction and the Undoing of Diplomacy: A Case Study
Involving the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations
Dr. Ivan Callus and Ruben Borg - University of Malta
16.30 – 17:15 Problems of Translation in Diplomacy
Dr. Vicki Cremona and Helena
Mallia, University of Malta
Saturday, 12 February
SESSION TWO: INTERNATIONAL
ORGANISATIONS AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
Chair - Dr. John Harper – Director
of Studies, Malta Chamber of Commerce
9:30 – 10:15 International Organisations and Knowledge Management
Dr. Daniele Archibugi - CNR - Italian
National Research Council
10:15 – 11:00 Knowledge Management
Developments at the OECD
Guido Maccari - Head of Information Technology and Network Services,
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
11:30 – 12:15 From Implicit Skills to Knowledge
Giampaolo Montaletti - Head of Research and Development, Regional
Association of the Chambers of Commerce of Emilia-Romagna
Chair – Dr. Jennifer Cassigena Harper- International Relations Officer,
Malta Council on Science and Technology
14:00 – 14:45 Knowledge Related Projects of the European Union
Dr. Gregorio Medrano – Directorate General Research – EU Comission
14:45 – 15:15 The Commonwealth Knowledge Network: A Commonwealth Science
and Technology Initiative
Henry Alamango – Executive Director, Commonwealth Network of IT for
Development
15:45 – 16:30 Internet as a Tool for Networking the International Security
Community
Stephan Libiszewski – Project Coordinator, International
Relations and
Security Network (ISN)
Sunday, 13 February, 2000
SESSION THREE: DOCUMENTS OF DIPLOMACY
Chair - Professor Felix Meier – Director of the Mediterranean Academy of
Diplomatic Studies
9:00 – 9:45 Documenting Diplomacy, Evaluating Documents: The Case of the CSCE
Dr. Keith Hamilton - Senior Editor, Documents on British Policy Overseas,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London
9:45 – 10:30 Diplomatic Documents: New Approaches to an Old Question
Dr. Alex Sceberras Trigona - Former Maltese Minister of Foreign Affairs
11:00 – 11:45 International Legal Documents: Use of New Tools
Professor Dietrich Kappeler - former Director of Diplomatic Studies
Programme, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva
12:15 – 12:45 Conclusion of the Conference