What is “organized crime” today?
Conference on perceptions and strategies for fighting organised crime

Programme Draft

Part I, April 21 (Thursday), 2005, 6.00–10.00 p.m.

Panel Discussion and Film Screening
Misha Glenny, journalist and researcher, UK: “McMafia: Seriously Organized Crime”- presentation of a book-in-progress

Ivaylo Ditchev, researcher, Sofia University: “Humour and cultural artefacts about organized crime – 1995 v/s 2005”

Screening of the B-92 interview with Beba Popovic “Who Killed Zoran Djindjic?” (original version in Serbian)

Moderator: Dessy Gavrilova, The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, Sofia

Part II, April 22 (Friday), 10.00 a.m.–2.00 p.m.

Public Perceptions of organised crime (10.00–11.00 a.m.)
Boriana Dimitrova, Alpha Research, Sofia: “Public perceptions of organized crime”

Srdjan Bogosavljevic, Strategic Marketing Research Institute, Belgrade : “Results from public perception survey”

Moderator: Ivanka Ivanova, Open Society Institute, Sofia

Public Institutions (11.30–12.30 a.m.)
Daniel Smilov, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia: “Competing for Organized Crime: Discoveries from a Task Force”

Vladimir Shopov, Institute for Regional and International Studies: “Countering Organized Crime: Justice and Home Affairs”

Introduction and moderation: Todd Foglesong, Vera Institute of Justice, NY

Public Conversations (13.00 – 14.00)
Stefan Popov, Open Society Institute, Sofia: “Organized crime: norm and concept”

Ivan Krastev, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia: “Do NGOs have a role to play in fighting organised crime?”

Introduction and moderation: Ivan Vejvoda, Balkan Trust for Democracy, Belgrade

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April 21-22, 2005,
The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate “Andrey Nikolov”, Red hall
15, Ljuben Karavelov St.
Entrance day I: 3/2 BGN
Entrance day II: Invitations only

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