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Monday 23 January • Ben Ezzine Mustapha, “I Watch” organization co-founder & Treasurer • Khadija Arfaoui, Tunisian Association of Democratic Women; Retired Professor, American Studies, Women’s Studies, English and Human Rights; activist on environmental, human rights and women’s rights issues • Abdelwahab Hafaiedh, University of Tunis; Director, Middle East Research Competition Programme (MERC) • Dinner with SAIS Alumni in Tunisia, Restaurant Dar Bel Hadj, Medina Tanja Faller Patrick Hettinger Edith Laszlo Florian Theus James Weatherill Tuesday 24 January • Mohamed Salah Hedri, Colonel (ret.) l'Armée Tunisienne; President of the Justice and Development Party (PJD) • Moncef Barouni, Attorney; President, Tunisian–American Chamber of Commerce and Friendship • Rachid Ghannouchi, President of the Nahdha Party and Interim Prime Minister of Tunisia, Nhadha Party Headquarters, Montplaisir, Tunis • Sofiene Ben Hmida, Chief of the Information Department, Union Générale des Travailleurs Tunisiens (UGTT), UGTT Offices, Tunis • Mokhtar Trifi, Ligue tunisienne des droits de l’homme Wednesday 25 January • Kamel Ben Younes, Executive Director, International Studies Institute; reporter for BBC World Service 218
• Ahmed Ibrahim, Secretary of the Ettajdid Party; leader of the Modernist Democratic Pole • Visit to Zeitouna Mosque, Tunis Medina • Mohamed Sayah, former student leader and member of the Destourian Party of former President Habib Bourguiba • Hatem Bourial, author, journalist, TV personality, and democracy activist • Oussama Romdhani, former Minister of Communications in the Ben Ali government Thursday 26 January • Ouided Bouchamaoui, President; Tarak Ben Yahmed, Vice President; Ali Nakai, Director, International Relations; and Tarek Yakhlef, International Relations Center, Union Tunisienne de l’Industrie, du Commerce, and de l’Artisinat (UTICA), UTICA Headquarters, Cité El Khadhra, Tunis • Latifa Lakhdar, former vice president of “La Haute instance pour la réalisation des objectifs de la révolution et de la transition démocratique”, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Tunis. • Abderrazak Kilani, Minister for Relations with the Constituent Assembly, Office of the Presidency of the Government, at the Kasbah (Office of the Prime Minister) • Laryssa Chomiak, Director, Centre d’Etudes Maghrébines à Tunis • Radwan Masmoudi, President, Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy Friday 27 January • Alaya Allani, Professor of Contemporary History, Manouba University,Tunis • Omezzine Khélifa, Ettakatol Party • Gordon Gray, U.S. Ambassador-Designate to Tunisia, and staff, US Embassy, Tunis 219
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Johns Hopkins University School for
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Acknowledgements We are most gratef
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List of Acronyms AKP Adalet ve Kalk
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proposed goal (as in the previous e
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democracy is a continual testing pr
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What’s in a Revolution? The timin
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limited to Tunisia, these vivid dep
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political system before any of the
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discontent of so many in Tunisia wh
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eality,” signified by Tunisian pe
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mantra sparked the Kasbah sit-ins r
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in early January of 2011, you would
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independence from the Ottoman Empir
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ack to the 1970s (SAIS Group Meetin
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Two Tunisias: How A Revolution Whic
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continued to cite statistics claimi
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inequality were most severe. Combat
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in government could drop precipitou
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for bold political leadership in Tu
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History of Secularism in Tunisia In
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1) Freedom to form and to join orga
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Source: Stepan, Alfred C. “Religi
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terms of campaigning, the political
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that in practice many people who es
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Short-term • Secular parties must
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Islamism and Laïcité in the Tunis
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girl, a high-achieving student at h
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laws are either supported directly
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and she argues that he, like many s
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during exams, preventing other stud
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Constituent Assembly should keep th
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Women’s Rights in Tunisia: A “N
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dismiss the question as a non-issue
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In immediate post-revolutionary Tun
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Others express concern about the va
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something every Tunisian boy does n
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Mr. Ghannouchi is equally surprised
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Mr. Hedri showed concern over the l
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has occurred in response to politic
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The Post-Transition Constitutional
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Theoretical Literature While there
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Tunisian Case Following Ben Ali’s
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parties. With the internal arrangem
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issues of unemployment, reduced cor
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Recommendations • NCA and politic
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Political Party Development Amy Ham
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experience and expertise, will be k
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with Laryssa Chomiak, SAIS group me
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epresented a complete departure fro
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To some extent, the focus on the qu
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• Enhance the legitimacy and enfo
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Ennahdha and the Salafis Roberta Lu
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The trial against Nabil Karoui, the
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Some Possible Explanations The hesi
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the salafist movement Al-Salafiya A
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violence, to lay the bases for a ne
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Tunisian Civil Society Before and A
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Bourguiba,” Bellin points out,
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nip in the bud any challenges to pa
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“training-of-trainers” (ToT) ev
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The focus of civil society groups i
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economic development in Tunisia. Th
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The Tunisian Youth Fallout: A Look
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that they found voting to be the mo
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head (Dégage, 2011). It should the
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graduates are unemployed (SAIS Grou
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to participate as a citizen in a de
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are rumored to consist only of 3,00
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Medium-term • At some point, the
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Part III: Security, Justice and Eco
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The Role of the Military in Post-Be
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insufficient to prevent the demonst
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disruptions during voting, the tota
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This is in sharp contrast to the mi
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Recommendations While the military
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Internal Security and Reform in Tun
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The Implements of Repression There
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undesirable organizations, stifle d
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evolution, many police, especially
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A Way Forward: Policy Reforms At pr
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Transitional Justice and National R
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Those released therefore included p
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Page 187 and 188: Addressing Unemployment Rebekah Cha
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Page 191 and 192: of its revolution. This has had a c
Page 193 and 194: Boosting the Tourism Sector The tou
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Page 199 and 200: Understanding Unemployment in Tunis
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Page 211 and 212: cultural differences that may inhib
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Page 219 and 220: Conclusion P. Terrence Hopmann The
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Page 227 and 228: List of Interviewees Washington DC,
Page 229: • Salah Bourjini, former division
Page 233 and 234: Bibliography Abouzeid, Rania. 21 Ja
Page 235 and 236: Cook, Steven A. 20 January 2011.
Page 237 and 238: Le Monde. 25 January 2011. “Tunis
Page 239 and 240: Silver, Vernon. 12 December 2011.
Page 241: World Bank. 2004. “Dynamique de L
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