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"Faith and the State: The Politics of Religion"
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Garret Creek Ranch, Paradise, Texas, November 2004 (generously supported by The German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Open Society Institute, and the Robert Bosch Siftung.)

Participants:
Macedonio Alanis Professor of Management Information Systems, Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudio Superiores, Monterrey, Mexico
Pauline Bebe, Rabbi, Communaute Juive Liberale Paris, France
Nelly Bekus-Goncharova, free-lance journalist and essayist, Minsk, Belarus
Hassan Bousetta, Research Associate, Department of Sociology, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium
Christoph Brand, Executive Vice-President, Swisscom Fixnet Wholesale Services, Bern, Switzerland
Alain Deletroz, Vice President of Operations of the International Crisis Group, Brussels, Belgium
Barthelemy Faye, Associate Attorney, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamiliton, Paris, France
Florian Gheorghe, Attorney, Bucharest, Romania
Melissa Goldstein, Vice President for Law, Regulation, and Ethics at Faster Cures/The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions, Washington D.C.
Art Hall, City Councilman, San Antonio, Texas
Shpend Imeri, President, Association for Democratic Initiatives, Gostivar, Macedonia.
Aleksander Kaczorowski, deputy editor-in-chief of Forum weekly and regular contributor to Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw, Poland
Azza Mostafa Karam, Special Advisor on Arab and Islamic Affairs and Director of Women's Programs at the World Conference of Religions for Peace, New York
Hasan Ali Karasar, Chair, Central Asian Studies Department, Center for Eurasian Studies in Ankara, and General Secretary, Center of Russian Studies, Bilkent, Turkey
Farhana Khera, Counsel to Senator Russ Feingold, Washington D.C.
Florian Klenk, Political Editor, Vienna weekly newspaper Der Falter, Austria
Ewa Konczal, runs the Polish program of the international NGO Ashoka Innovators for the Public, Warsaw, Poland
Bernadette Kumar,s Project Coordinator and Research Fellow at the Institute for General Practice and Community Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
Dan McSweeney, Captain, US Marine Corps, and Media Officer for Plans, Policies, and Operations, Marine Corps Headquarters, Pentagon, Washington D.C.
Jamie Metzl teaches human rights law at the University of Missouri Law School, Kansas City, Missouri
Wanda Mial, Chief Deputy Commissioner for Program and Planning, City of Philadelphia Department of Human Services, Philadelphia
Pawe? Miller, CEO and General Manager, Nordea Poland Life Insurance Company, Warsaw, Poland
Allison Moore, In-Country Director of the China Rule and Governance Program for the American Bar Association, Beijing, China
Estep Nagy, filmmaker and writer, New York City.
Shervin Neukuee, journalist and sociologist, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Dirk Notheis, Executive Director, Morgan Stanley Bank AGI, Frankfurt, Germany
Eyal Press, contributing writer at The Nation, and a journalist based in New York City
Nils Rosemann, Attorney and consultant to the World Food Organization , German Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection, Food, and Agriculture, Jenna, Germany
Elizabeth Rubin, a journalist, is a Contributing Writer to the New York Times Magazine, New York
Armando Salvatore, Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the Essen Institute, and Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Laila Sheikh, Diplomatic Desk Officer for Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and the Arabian Peninsula at the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Bern, Switzerland
Maxim Shevchenko, Head of the Center of Strategic Research on Religion and Politics in the Modern World, Moscow, Russia
Carl Soderbergh, Director of the Swedish section of Amnesty International in Stockholm, Sweden
Ruslan Stefanov, Program Coordinator, Center for the Study of Democracy, Sofia, Bulgaria
Phoebe L. Yang, Director, International Business Development and Strategy, Discovery Communications, Washington D.C.

"The Future of the West"
Örsundsbro, Sweden, June 2003
(generously supported by the Ford Foundation and The German Marshall Fund of the United States)

Participants:
Amy Bach, lawyer and freelance journalist, New York
Alexandra Barahona de Brito, Professor at Moderna University and Senior Associate Researcher at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Lisbon, Portugual
Erica J. Barks-Ruggles, Deputy Head of the Political-Economic Section, U.S. Embassy in Oslo, Norway
Kim Barry, Special Advisor to the Chief of Staff and Deputy to the President, New York University
Jirí Bárta, Executive Director, VIA Foundation for a Civil Society in Prague, (Nadace VIA), Prague, Czech Republic
Marcus Bleinroth, Diplomat, EU desk of the German Foreign Office, Berlin
Zoltán Budai, Budai & Barta Consulting Company, Budapest, Hungary
Tina Choi, White House Fellow and Special Advisor, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, Washington D.C.
Robert Chote, Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, U.K.
Richard Danbury, television journalist, BBC, London, U.K.
Bruno Erhard-Steiner, Chief-of-Staff to Claude Bébéar, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Group AXA, Paris, France
Robert Fry, Chief of Staff to the Deputy Prime Minister, Canada
Pieter Hilhorst, essayist and playwright, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Karen Horn, economic policy editor, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt, Germany
Christopher B. Howard, CEO and founder of the IYL Foundation and distinguished graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Aleksander Kaczorowski, Deputy editor-in-chief, Polish edition of Newsweek, Warsaw, Poland
Tomás P. Klvana, Spokesman to the President of the Czech Republic, Prague
Ivan Krastev, Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia, Bulgaria
Marina Mogilner, Editor, Ab Imperio, Kazan, Russia
Rich Morales, Major, United States Army and Mahan Scholar at the U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island
Cecile Moulard, Director, "Sixičme Continent", Paris, France Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., Ph.D., Clinical Fellow in Internal Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School
Lisette Nieves, Chief of Staff for New York City's Department of Youth and Community Development
Wendy L. Patten, U.S. Advocacy Director, Human Rights Watch, Washington D.C.
Ihor Popov, Chairman, Committee of Voters of Ukraine (CVU), Kiev, Ukraine
Guy Raz, correspondent for National Public Radio, based in London, U.K.
Thomas A. Saenz, Vice-President of Litigation, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), Los Angeles
Renata Salecl, Researcher, Institute of Criminology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Centennial Professor, London School of Economics, U.K.
Mikael Schultz, cultural policy advisor, Swedish Institute, Stockholm
Carl Söderberg, Director, Swedish section of Amnesty International, Stockholm
Virpi Suutari, documentary filmmaker and journalist, Helsinki, Finland
Reynaldo Anaya Valencia, Professor of Law and Founder and Director of the Center for Latina/Latino Legal Studies, St. Mary’s University School of Law, San Antonio, Texas
Kenneth R. Weinstein, Vice President and Director, Hudson Institute, Washington D.C.
Phoebe L. Yang, consultant in international project finance and corporate law, Washington D.C.
Ulla Zumente-Steele, Director, Continuing Legal Education Program, Riga Graduate School of Law, Latvia

"Responsibility and its Discontents"
Wye Woods, Maryland, March 2002
(generously supported by the Ford Foundation and German Marshall Fund of the United States)

Participants:
Erica J. Barks-Ruggles, Deputy Head of the Political-Economic Section, U.S. Embassy in Oslo, Norway
Jirí Bárta ,Executive Director, VIA Foundation for Local Initiatives (Nadace VIA), Prague, Czech Republic
Miroslav Beblavý, Advisor to the Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Slovakia, Slovak Republic
Esther Benjamin, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the International Youth Foundation, Baltimore, Maryland
Alexandra Barahona de Brito, Professor at Moderna University and Senior Associate Researcher at the Institute for Strategic and International Studies, Lisbon, Portugal
Ali Buzurukov, United Nations Fund for Population Activities in Geneva, Switzerland
Gillian B. Caldwell, Director, WITNESS, a project of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, New York
Cécile Fabre, Lecturer in political theory, London School of Economics, England
Caroline Fourest-Guillemot, President of ProChoix-France, Paris, France
Carla Harris, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, New York
Peter Jukes, playwright, director and writer, London, England
Chris Keulemans, Freelance writer, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Cyril Kormos, Senior Director for Program Management, Conservation International (CI), Washington, D.C.
Ivan Krastev, Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia, Bulgaria
Teresa Leger de Fernandez, Partner, Nordhaus, Haltom, Taylor, Taradash and Frye Law Firm, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Malini Mehra, Founder and Director of the Centre for Social Markets, London, England
Albert Musliu, President of the Advisory Board, Association for Democratic Initiatives, Gostivar, Macedonia
Nadia Y. Rendak, Legal Department, International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C.
Antonio Riley, Wisconsin State Representative, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Cüneyt Sezgin, Chief Risk and Internal Control Officer, Garanti Bank, Istanbul, Turkey
Lukasz Sommer, Ph.D candidate, Warsaw University , Poland
Constanze Stelzenmüller, editor and writer for the political section, Die Zeit, Hamburg, Germany
Reynaldo Anaya Valencia, Professor of Law and Founder and Director of the Center for Latina/Latino Legal Studies, St. Mary's University School of Law, San Antonio, Texas
Romana Vlahutin, Head of the Department for Political Analysis and Planning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Zagreb, Croatia
Gesine Weinmiller, architect and Professor for Architecture at the Hochschule für bildende Künste, Berlin, Germany
Lance Everett Wyatt, M.D., resident in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Harvard University, Massachusetts

"Boundaries, Frontiers and Identity: present dilemmas, future prospects"
Eze, France, May, 2000
(generously supported by the German Marshall Fund of the United States)

Participants:
Neven Andjelic, freelance journalist from Sarajevo, London, England
Peter Beinart, Senior Editor, The New Republic, Washington D.C.
Nadir Bekirov, Secretary to the Council of Representatives of the Crimean Tartar People, Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine
Mark F. Brzezinski, Director of the Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian section of the National Security Council at the White House, Washington D.C.
Astrid von Busekist, Professor at the University of Nice and at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris
Martin Cauchon, Canadian Minister of National Revenue, Ottawa
Michal Cichy , Journalist, Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw, Poland
Krzysztof Czyzewski, President, Borderland Foundation, Sejny, Poland
Amy Falls, Director of Emerging Markets Research, Morgan Stanley Dean Witer, New York
Ellene A. Felder, Program Director, International, Greater Philadelphia First
Kimberly A. Hamilton, Senior Program Officer, Alcoa Foundation, Pittsburgh
Gordana Igric, Senior Balkan Editor, Institute for War and Peace Reporting (WPR), London, England
Peter Jukes, playwright, director and writer, London, England
Andre A. Kamenshikov, Director, Newly Independent States (NIS) division of Non-Violence International, Moscow
Chris Keulemans, Freelance writer, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Noémi Korányi, Staff Director of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Hungarian Parliament, Budapest
Teresa Leger de Fernandez, Partner, Nordhaus, Haltom, Taylor, Taradash and Frye Law Firm, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Philippe Manière, editor-in-chief, Le Point, Paris
Peter Miller, Professor, Department of History, University of Maryland at College Park
Albert Musliu, President of the Advisory Board, Association for Democratic Initiatives,  Gostivar, Macedonia
Martin O’Brien, Executive Director Committee on the Administration of Justice, Belfast, North Ireland
Felicitas von Peter, Media Department, Bertelsman Foundation, Gütersloh, Germany
Samantha Power, Executive Director, CARR Center for Human Rights Policy
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge
Garrett Price, Partner and Managing Director, Fluid Ventures LLC, New York
Jeffrey M Prieto, Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Washington D.C.
Nadia Y. Rendak, Legal Department, International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC
Domenico Scarpa, Freelance essayist and English/Italian translator, Naples, Italy
Mikael Schultz, Swedish National Council for Cultural Affairs, Stockholm
Charles E. Tauber, Associate in the Global Structured Trade and Finance Group, Citigroup, New York
Valentyna V. Telychenko, Executive Director, Ukrainian Foundationin Support of Reform, Kiev
Cecilia Thompson, Human Rights Officer, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva
Mihai-Rãzvan Ungureanu, Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bucharest, Romania
Romana Vlahutin, First Secretary for Political Affairs, Embassy of the Republic of Croatia to the US, Washington D.C.
Kevin Werbach, Managing Editor of Release 1.0, Esther Dyson’s technology newsletter, at EDventure Holdings, New York

"Cultural Policy and the Politics of Culture"
White Oak Plantation, Jacksonville, Florida, November 1998
(generously supported by the Howard Gilman Foundation and the German Marshall Fund of the United States)

Participants:
Amy Adler, School of Law, New York University
Eszter Babarczy, writer, Hungary and Department of History, NYU
Gigi Bradford, Executive Director, Center for Arts & Culture, Washington D.C.
Michal Cichy , Journalist, Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw, Poland
Krzysztof Czyzewski, President, Borderland Foundation, Sejny, Poland
Ellene A. Felder, Program Director, International, Greater Philadelphia First
Louis Grachos, Director, S.I.T.E. Santa Fe
Raoul Grünstein, Image Publishing Ltd., Helsinki, Finland
Sanjay Gupta, Chief Neurosurgical Resident, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor
Erik Hitters, Assistant Professor, Department of Leisure Studies, The Netherlands
Peter Jukes, playwright, director and writer, London, England
Rachel MacRory, architectural historian, Heritage Policy Division,
Department of Arts and Heritage, Dublin
Philippe Manière, editor-in-chief, Le Point, Paris
Martin O’Brien, Executive Director Committee on the Administration of Justice, Belfast, North Ireland
Francie Ostrower, Department of Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge
Felicitas von Peter, Media Department, Bertelsman Foundation, Gütersloh, Germany
Mary E. Sarotte, International Security Research Fellow, Harvard University,Cambridge
Patricia Schramm, Cultural Attaché, Consulate General of Switzerland, New York
Mikael Schultz, Swedish National Council for Cultural Affairs, Stockholm
Martin Simecka, Executive Director, Milan Simecka Foundation, Bratislava, Slovakia
Lidia Varbanova, Professor of Cultural Economics at the University of National and World Economy, and Director, Arts Management Program, Balkan Arts Foundation,  Sofia, Bulgaria
Alfonso Vegara, architect planner and President, Taller des Ideas, Madrid
Glenn Wallach, Deputy Director, Center for Arts and Culture, Washington D.C.
Isabel Wilkerson, journalist, The New York Times, Chicago
Grigori Zaslavskiy, Head, Culture Department at and theatre critic for
Nezavisimaya Gazeta,  Moscow