“The Challenge of Stabilization and Reconstruction: How to Improve International Cooperation”

Details

Monday, 16th October 2006

19.00Opening Dinner

Keynote speaker:

Dr Jamie Shea, Head of Policy Planning, Private Office of the Secretary General, NATO Hq

Tuesday, 17th October

8.30 – 9.00Registration of Participants

9.00 - 9.15Welcome remarks by Dr. Peter R. Weilemann, Director of the Brussels Office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, and

Jean Fournet, Assistant Secretary General, Public Diplomacy Division, NATO Hq

Morning Panel:

Afghanistan - Multinational Cooperation in State-Building

Moderator: Jean Fournet, Assistant Secretary General, Public Diplomacy Division, NATO Hq

9.15 – 10.30Part I: Institutional Viewpoints

Terence Jagger, The Political Adviser to the Commander of ISAF IX, NATO International Security Assistance Force, Afghanistan

Dr Sari Kouvo, Rule of Law, Human Rights and Gender Adviser, Office of the EU Special Representative for Afghanistan, Kabul

Mr Richard Ponzio, Strategic Planning Advisor, UNDP Country Office Afghanistan

10.30 – 11.00Coffee break

11.00 – 12:30 Part II: NGO Perspectives: Responses and Open Discussion

Ms. Anja de Beer, Director of the Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief

Diederik de Boer, Central Asia Senior Programme Officer, CORDAID, Caritas in the Netherlands

12.45 – 14.15Hosted buffet luncheon

Afternoon Panel: Pakistan - Civil-Military Cooperation in Natural Disaster

Moderator: Ambassador Maurits Jochems, Deputy Assistant Secretary General, Operations Division, NATO Hq

14.30 – 15.30Part I: Institutional Viewpoints

Air Commodore Andy Walton, Former Commander of the NATO Disaster Relief Mission to Pakistan

Dr Jan Vandemoortele, UN Relief Coordinator for Pakistan

Ms Ahmad Humaira, Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA)

15:30 – 15:45Coffee break

15:45 – 16:30 Part II: NGO Perspectives: Responses and Open Discussion

Dr Samina Ahmed, South Asia Project Director, International Crisis Group

Richard Luff, Humanitarian Department, Oxfam

Wrap-up Panel: Views on the Way Ahead

Moderator:Dr Jamie Shea, Head of Policy Planning, Private Office of the Secretary General, NATO Hq

16.30-17.30: Addressed by: Ambassador Alessandro Minuto Rizzo, NATO Deputy Secretary General

With the participation of Jan Top Christensen, Head of Department for Humanitarian Assistance and NGO cooperation, Ambassador Friedrich Däuble, Commissioner for Civilian Crisis Prevention, Conflict Resolution and Post-Conflict Peace-Building and Chris Cooter, Canadian Deputy Permanent Representative to NATO, former Director of the Policy Planning Division at the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs