Den 20 oktober arrangerar Socialdemokraterna och Palmecentret årets Anna Lindhseminarium. De teman som diskuteras är religionens roll i politiken, globaliseringen och sammanvävningen av inrikes- och utrikespolitik.

Från socialdemokraterna medverkar bland andra partiordförande Mona Sahlin, Wanja-Lundby Wedin, Jan Eliasson, Göran Färm och Carin Jämtin. Flera internationella och svenska gäster deltar också, bland annat Maximo Cajal från Alliance of Civilizations, Yadava Reddy från indiska Kongresspartiet och Ilyas Mohsin från Pakistan Peoples Party.

Program of the Anna Lindh seminar at the 70th anniversary of Bommersvik, Stockholm 20 October 2007

10.00 Speech by Mona Sahlin, party leader of the Social Democratic Party
 
10:30  The role of religion in politics
Session 1: Has the role of religion in world politics increased? Is there a greater difference within than between religions? What about the so called clash of civilizations?
Moderator: Peter Weiderud, President of Social Democratic Religious branch
Panellists:
Jan Eliasson, UN envoy to Sudan
Maximo Cajal, Representative of the Spanish Prime Minister in the Alliance of Civilisations.
K-G Hammar, fm Archbishop of Sweden

11.30 Session 2: In some political hot-spots in the world religion has and will continue to play a decisive role. What can the rest of the world learn from those experiences?
Moderator: Laila Naraghi, vice-president of ECOSY
Panelists:
Paul Murphy, Member of Parliament and fm Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, UK.
Abu Baker, Al Fatah, Palestine 
Mercedes Rico, Director General for Religious Affairs, Ministry of Justice, Spain. 

12.30 Summary panel, all panellists from session 1 and 2

13.00 Lunch

14:00  The world is at home!
Session 3: Domestic and international work is now intertwined, how do we take this into account in the political work.
Moderator: Ann Linde, International Secretary.
Panelists:
Luis Ayala, political perspective, Secretary General, Socialist International
Wanja Lundby-Wedin, trade union perspective, President of LO and ETUC
Zita Gurmai, women perspective, President of PES-Women
Yadava Reddy, Indian perspective, MP Andre Pradesh, Congress party, India, 

15.00 Session 4: How has globalization changed the political work?
Moderator: Monica Andersson, fm political adviser to Anna Lindh
Panelists:
Carin Jämtin, local level, opposition mayor of Stockholm, fm Minster of Development co-operation
Veronica Palm, national level, MP, member of Foreign Affairs Committee
Göran Färm, European level, MEP, member of Budget Committee in European Parliament
Jan Eliasson, global level, fm president of UN General Assembly

16:00    Summary panel, all panellists in session 3 and 4

17.00 End