As Co-Chair of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center (NGIC), Serageldin was Master of Ceremony at the NGIC and Club de Madrid’s II Global Shared Societies Forum “Post 2015 Agenda And Shared Societies”. In a session on “Shared Societies as a Driver in Conflict Resolution”, Serageldin shared his insights and experience of conflict resolution and social integration, with co-panelists: Hikmet Cetin, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey; Emil Constantinescu, Former President of Romania; Boris Tadic, former President of Serbia; and Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Former President Republic of Latvia, Co-chair of the NGIC and President of the Club de Madrid. As facilitator of the closing session of the two day forum, “Moving forward. Proposals and recommendations for the UN to mainstream Social Inclusion in the Post-2015 Process and their implementation at the national level” Serageldin, together with speakers, Ernst von Weizsaecker, Co-President of Club of Rome; Carlos Westendorp, Secretary-General of Club de Madrid; and Vaira Vike-Freiberga, tackled the objective of the panel: to synthesize and strategize on how the conclusions and suggestions of the previous panels could be most effectively presented to the consideration of the Post 2015 Sustainable Development Agenda decision makers.
The NGIC is a cultural, non-profit, non-political organization dedicated to the memory of Azerbaijani poet, Nizami Ganjavi, and to the study and dissemination of his works. The Club de Madrid is an independent non-profit organization composed of more than 90 democratic former Presidents and Prime Ministers from 62 different countries. The cooperation between the NGIC and the Club de Madrid started with the First South Caucasus Forum, where a Memorandum of Understanding was signed by the two organizations to join forces and work together to strengthen the Club de Madrid’s mission of “democracy that delivers”, as well as the NGIC’s mission to build a dialogue and understanding between cultures and peoples for building functional and inclusive societies.