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| International seminar: Ombudsmanship: Prospects and Challenges for the Twenty First Century
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 On September 12 - 16, 2001, an international seminar
Ombudsmanship: Prospects and Challenges for the Twenty First
Century was held in Nicosia to celebrate the decenarium of the
Office of the Commissioner for Administration (Ombudsman) of
Cyprus.
The seminar was aimed at enabling a discussion forum
on topics as the recent developments, current trends and
prospective challenges in the field of Ombudsmanship and to
facilitate participants to address issues relating the role of the
Ombudsman in the twenty first century.
 The seminar featured a distinguished group of
speakers including: Mr. Jacob Soderman, the European Ombudsman; Ms.
Eliana Nicolaou, Commissioner for Administration of Cyprus; the
UK Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration Mr. Michael
Buckley, Mr. Pierre-Yves Monette, Federal Ombudsman of Belgium;
Dr. Peter Kostelka, Member of the Austrian Ombudsman Board;
Finland's Parliamentary Ombudsman Mr. Lauri Lehtimaja, Ms.
Kerstin Andre, Parliamentary Ombudsman of Sweden, Prof. Oleg
Mironov, Commissioner of Human Rights in the Russian Federation
andthe Greek Ombudsman Prof. Nikiforos Diamandouros; Ms. Nana
Devdariani, Public Defender of Georgia, etc.
The seminar focused on a number of significant
issues concerning the development of the ombudsman institution in
the different countries. The major topics included:
- Ombudsmanship: Prospects and Challenges for the
Twenty First Century
- The Effectiveness of the Ombudsman in the Oversight
of the Administrative Conduct of Public Bodies
- Democracy, Accountability and the Office of the
Ombudsman
- Moving from Adversarial to Non-adversarial
Approaches - a Contemporary Approach in Ombudsmanship
- The Proactive, Preventive and Educative Role of the
Ombudsman
- The Role of the Ombudsman in Balancing the Exercise
of Governmental Power and its Accountability
 The Center for the Study of Democracy was
represented by the Head of the Law Program Dr. Maria
Yordanova and the Executive Secretary of Coalition 2000
Ms. Valeria Bouhlarska.
During the seminar a number of useful contacts were
established with ombudsmen both from countries with long traditions
in developing ombudsman institutions and from countries with
recently established ones. The participants underlined the
importance of the ombudsman instituion for the building of the
civil society and expressed their readiness for further cooperation
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