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Summer Course

Visiones de la paz y del papel de la Unión Europea en un mundo multipolar

03.Jul - 04. Jul, 2025 Cod. G18-25

The Course will reflect on the keys to the success of the peace model built in Europe and analyse what aspects would need to be modified or added to restore peace to the continent. Going beyond Europe, it will also try to bring together visions of peace in different parts of the world.

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One of the core elements of the European integration project is to achieve peace. After two world wars, the peoples of Europe longed for a real, structural peace, not dependent on shifting agreements between the powers, as was made clear at the Congress of Europe (The Hague, May 1948). In line with this public outcry, governments initiated a bold political process that has proved to be a successful peace mechanism. Political and economic integration has banished war among its member states, and has played a leading role in mediating conflicts and supporting transitions to democracy around the world.

Nevertheless, there were border wars in the Balkans in the 1990s, and now there has been another large-scale war in Europe, with Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It seems timely, therefore, to reflect on the keys to the success of the peace model built in Europe, and to analyse what aspects would need to be modified or added to restore peace to the continent.

Going beyond Europe, the course will try to bring together visions of peace in different parts of the world. With this in mind, this Summer Course will invite both European and non-European speakers, with the aim of promoting a debate on how peace is conceived today. At the same time, there will be a critical reflection on what could, or should, be the role of the European Union in building and promoting peace in the current international system.

The idea would therefore be to bring together speakers who can contribute their visions of peace from, for example, India, the Arab world, Africa, Latin America, and also including the two great superpowers: USA and China.

Objectives

Promote a debate in Basque society on peace in the 21st century. Conflicts have been transforming, and therefore the mechanisms of resolution and prevention must adapt to the new realities.

Promote a critical and constructive reflection on the role of the European Union as a peace-building actor in Europe and in a complex and multipolar world.

Hear how peace is perceived in other cultures outside Europe, in order to enrich our vision, and to be able to contrast European concepts with others arising in different contexts and realities.

Analyse the expectations that other powers and regions of the world have of the EU's ability to lead peace-promoting initiatives.

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Students not from university
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Program

03-07-2025

09:30 - 10:00

Institutional Opening session. Speaking order:

Irune Zuluaga Zamalloa | EuroBasque - Presidenta
Bakartxo Tejeria Otermin | Parlamento Vasco - Presidenta
Ander Caballero | Eusko Jaurlaritza / Gobierno vasco - Secretario General de Acción Exterior y Euskadi Global

10:00 - 10:30

“Latin America’s perceptions of peace“

Juca Ferreira | Ex-Minister for Culture of Brasil

10:30 - 11:00

“ Russia’s perceptions of peace“

Pavel K. Baev | Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) - Research Professor

11:00 - 11:30

Pausa-Café

11:30 - 12:00

“West Africa’s perceptions of peace“

Levinia Addae-Mensah | West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) - Executive Director

15:30 - 17:30

Round table: “Reflexiones sobre la paz“

Ponente a determinar

04-07-2025

09:15 - 09:30

Presentation by the Director of the activity

Irune Zuluaga Zamalloa | EuroBasque - Presidenta

09:30 - 10:00

Lecture

Aleksander Chkuaseli | Ambassador of Georgia

10:00 - 10:30

Round table: “India’s perceptions of peace“

Dinesh Patnaik | Ambassador of India

10:30 - 11:00

Pausa-Café

11:00 - 11:30

“Conclusiones“

Irune Zuluaga Zamalloa | EuroBasque - Presidenta

11:00 - 11:30

Lecture

Federica Mogherini

11:30 - 12:00

Conclusiones

12:00 - 12:15

Closing session

Irune Zuluaga Zamalloa | EuroBasque - Presidenta

Directors

Igor Filibi López

Eurobasque, Secretario General

Igor Filibi (Bilbao, 1971) se licenció en Ciencia Política y de la Administración (1995) y en Sociología Política (1997). Su formación de postgrado incluye diplomas en integración europea (1996) y en Derecho Constitucional y Ciencia Política (Madrid, Centro de Estudios Constitucionales, 1997). Cursó el programa de doctorado del Departamento de Derecho Internacional Público y Relaciones Internacionales (avalado con la mención de calidad del Ministerio de Educación) y defendió su Tesis en 2004, obteniendo la máxima calificación (sobresaliente cum laude por unanimidad). El tema de tesis consistía en explorar la influencia del proceso de integración política sobre los conflictos de las naciones sin Estado. A continuación trabajó en el proyecto europeo EUROREG (financiado por la Comisión Europea; contrato FP6 506019) entre septiembre de 2004 y agosto de 2007. Actualmente trabaja como profesor en el Departamento de Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad del País Vasco.

Beatriz Pérez de las Heras

EuroBasque, Vocal de la Junta Directiva

Beatriz Pérez de las Heras is Professor of European Union Law and Jean Monnet Chair on European Integration at the University of Deusto (UD). PhD in Law (UD), she accomplished post-graduate studies at the Centre Européen Universitaire de Nancy (France), where she obtained the DESS and DEA en Droit Communautaire. She was Director of the European Studies Institute at UD from 1996 to 2009 and also served as Vice-Dean for Research and International Relations at Deusto Faculty of Law from 2013 to 2015. She has been a visiting scholar at the Universities of Oregon (2009), Georgetown (2012), Fordham (2013), Boston College (2014), Florida International University (2016) and Canterbury, (New Zealand, 2023). She is currently Editor-in- Chief of Cuadernos Europeos de Deusto Journal (SCOPUS-indexed ) and Main Researcher of the “Integración Europea y Derecho Patrimonial” research team. She is author of several books on European legal issues.

Speakers

Ponente a determinar

Levinia Addae-Mensah

Pavel K. Baev

Aleksander Chkuaseli

Juca Ferreira

Federica Mogherini

Dinesh Patnaik

Irune Zuluaga Zamalloa

Parlamentaria vasca, Presidenta de EuroBasque

Irune Zuluaga es presidenta de EuroBasque, una entidad con más de 70 años de trayectoria en el proyecto de construcción europeo. Licenciada en Psicología por la Universidad de Deusto, es parlamentaria en el Parlamento Vasco desde 2020 (XII Legislatura). Ha sido directora de la Fundación Sabino Arana durante más de 20 años (1999-2020) y representante del Parlamento en el Consejo Vasco de la Cultura en las Legislaturas VIII-XI (2007-2017). También ha sido miembro del Consejo Asesor de BizkaiKOA (2014-2015) y del Patronato de la Fundación Kutxabank (2012-2014). Fundó y regentó la librería Campoy (1986-2004).