The conference “Challenges for Democracy: Religion, Law and Dialogue in the CIS and Baltics“, was held 25-27 April 2013 at the Baltic International Academy in Riga, Latvia. The conference brought together some 50 scholars and government leaders from the CIS and Baltics to look at law and religion issues in this region.
The conference was sponsored by the Baltic International Academy; the Academy of Labor and Social Relations (Moscow), the Coordinating Council of CIS and the Baltics on Theoretical and Practical Religious Studies, the Center of Religious Studies Research “ReligioPolis” (Moscow), and the International Center for Law and Religion Studies (ICLRS) at Brigham Young University (USA). The conference organizing committee consisted of Ringolds Balodis, University of Latvia; Elizabeth Clark and Cole Durham, Brigham Young University; Ekaterina…
Additional participants in the panel discussions included (in order of presentations made):
Edvīns Danoviskis, Lecturer in University of Latvia, Faculty of Law
Jautrīte Briede, Senator of Supreme Court of the Republic of Latvia, Associate professor in University of Latvia, Faculty of Law
Olga Zeile, Director Department of Sectoral Policy, Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Latvia
Kristīne Dupate, Assistant Professor of University of Latvia, Faculty of Law
Artūrs Kučs, Advisor of Ombudsman of the Republic of Latvia, Associate professor in University of Latvia, Faculty of Law
Solveiga Kruminia-Konkova, Head Researcher, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Latvia University
Tomáš Bubik, Professor of Theology, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
Henrik Hoffman, Professor, Head of the Institute of the History of Religions Religion, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Sergei Ivanenko, Doctor of Philosophy, Religious Studies
Vita Titarenko, Associate Professor, Researcher at the G.S. Skovorody Department of Religious Studies of the Institute of Philosophy, Ukraine
Roman Lunkin, Institute of Europe, Academy of Sciences, Russia
Olga Sibireva, SOVA Center, Russia
Nikolai Shaburov, Professor, Head of the Center for Religious Studies, State University for the Humanities, Russia
Boris Falikov, Professor, Center for Religious Studies, Russian State University for the Humanities, Russia
Alar Kilp, Faculty of Social Sciences and Education, Institute of Government and Politics, Chair of Comparative Politics, University of Tartu, Estonia
Jolanta Kuznecoviene, epartment of Sociology, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
Edvīns Danoviskis, Lecturer in University of Latvia, Faculty of Law, Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law
Donatas Glodenis, Chief Specialist, Division of Legal Entities and Religious Issues of the Ministry of Justice, Lithuania
Inese Runce, Head Researcher, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Latvia University
Sergei Kuznetsov, Member of the Expert Council on Religious Extremism, Ministry of Justice; Director, Center on the Study of Extremism, Russia
Lyudmila Filipovich, Head of G.S. Skovorody Department of Religion and Religious Studies of the Institute of Practical Philosophy of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Erik Terekhov, Head of the Latvian Buddhist Association
Oleg Goncharov, Member of the Presidential Council for Cooperation with Religious Organizations
Galina Shirokalova, Professor, Head of Department of Philosophy, Sociology and Political Science FGBOU VPO “Nizhny Novgorod Agricultural Academy”
Olga Sgibneva, Professor, Department of Sociology, Volgograd State University
William Schmidt, Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Religious Studies, and Ethno-Culturology, Russian Orthodox University of St. John the Evangelist
Eduard Martynyuk, Associate Professor, Odessa State University, Ukraine
Ruslan Pankratov, Deputy of the Riga Duma, Committee on Culture, Education, and Youth, Latvia
Mikhail Sitnikov, Editor in Chief of Internet Resource “ReligioPolis,” Russia
Illarion Ivanovich Ivanov, Chairman, Old Believers’ Society of Latvia
Vita Titarenko, Associate Professor, Researcher at the G.S. Skovorody Department of Religious Studies of the Institute of Philosophy, Ukraine
Andrei Sebentsov, Deputy Director of the Center for Education Law, Russia
Victor Yelensky, Professor at Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine
Stepan Danielyan, Chairman, Collaboration for Democracy Center, Armenia
Anatoly Kolodny, Professor, Deputy Director, Head of the G.S. Skovorody Department of Religious Philosophy Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, President of the Ukrainian Association of Religious Scholars
Lev Simkin, Professor of Law, Russia
Elena Markova, Research Officer (Assistant) at the Chair of Constitutional and Municipal Law and Head of Master of Law Program Department, Law Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Galina Krylova, Attorney-at-law, Russia
Lyudmila Filipovich, Head of G.S. Skovorody Department of Religion and Religious Studies of the Institute of Practical Philosophy of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Ringo Ringvee, Adviser of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Religious Affairs of Estonia
Boris Falikov, Professor, Center for Religious Studies of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Russia
Eduard Martinyuk, Associate Professor, Odessa State University, Ukraine
Yaroslav Panyutin, Researcher of Sociology and Management of Social Processes, Academy of Labour and Social Affairs, Russia
Nikolai Shaburov, Professor, Head of the Center for Religious Studies, State University for the Humanities, Russia
Elena Miroshnikova, Professor of Applied Ethics, Religious Studies and Theology at the L.N. Tolstoy Tula State Pedagogical University, Russia
Mikhail Zherebyatyev, Associate Professor of the Voronezh Branch of the Modern Humanities Academy
William Schmidt, Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Religious Studies, and Ethno-Culturology, Russian Orthodox University of St. John the Evangelist
Mikhail Sitnikov, Editor in Chief of Internet Resource “ReligioPolis”
Andrei Melnikov, Editor, NG-Religiia
Darya Krasnikova, Analyst for “The Apostle” Center for Political Technologies
Sergei Ivanenko, Doctor of Philosophy, Religious Studies