Specialist conference
Details
09:30 hrs
Registration and welcome coffee
10:00 hrs
Opening remarks:
Dr. Peter R. Weilemann, Director, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, European Office Brussels
Welcome remarks:
Wilhelm Staudacher, Secretary General, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Berlin
10:15 hrs
Keynote speech:
Domenico Rosa Member of Cabinet of the Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, European Commission
10:30 hrs
Panel 1:
Strengthening democratic institutions: post-election support for the national and provincial parliaments
Moderator:
Frank Spengler, Deputy Head of the Department for International Cooperation, Head of Unit Africa and Near East Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Berlin
Introduction:
Daniel Stroux, UNDP, Programme pour l’appui aux institutions de transition, DRC
10:45 hrs
Statements:
Christian Brotcorne, Senator, Chairman of the CDH group at the Belgian Senate, Member of the Commission for Foreign Affairs of the Senate
Hon Joseph Mbenza Thubi, President of the provisional Office of the Congolese National Assembly
Elisabeth Tison, Head of Unit, Region of Central Africa and the Great Lakes, DG Development, European Commission
Dr Charles Yaovi Djrekpo, Principal Technical Adviser National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) in the DRC
11:30 hrs
Coffee Break
11:45 hrs
Discussion
12:15 hrs
Panel 2:
Consolidating a fragmented party system
Moderator:
Andrea E. Ostheimer, Resident Representative, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Democratic Republic of Congo
Introduction :
Prof Dr Ferdinand Mushi Mugumo, Facultés Catholiques de Kinshasa, DRC
12:30 hrs
Statements:
Jürgen Schröder MEP, Member of the European Parliament
Hon Dr Florentin Mokonda Bonza, Presidential candidate for the “Convention Démocrate Chrétienne” (CDC), DRC
Hon Dr Adolphe Onusumba MP, Member of Parliament, Former Minister of Defense, DRC
N.N., Representatives of PPRD and MLC in Europe (invited)
13.00 hrs
Discussion
13.30 hrs
Lunch Break
14:45 hrs
Panel 3:
Security sector reform and the challenge to establish security in Eastern Congo
Moderator:
Alexandre de Bordelius, Wing Commander CRP/COP Branch, Operations & Exercises Division, European Military Staff, Council of the European Union
Introduction:
Colonel Barry Barnwell, EUSEC Mission, DRC
15:00 hrs
Statements:
Hon Dr Adolphe Onusumba MP, Member of Parliament, Former Minister of Defense, DRC
Meike De Goede, Scientist, Research about the Warlord structures in Eastern Congo, DRC
Olivier Ghirardi, Chargé de Mission at the Delegation for Strategic Affairs (DAS), Ministry of Defense, France
Oliver Blake, Senior Governance Adviser
DFID Department for International Development, DRC
15:30 hrs
Discussion
16.00 hrs
Coffee Break
16:15 hrs
Summary and Recommendations:
Andrea E. Ostheimer, Resident Representative, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Democratic Republic of Congo
16:45 hrs
Closing Remarks:
Frank Spengler, Deputy Head of the Department for International Cooperation, Head of Unit Africa and Near East
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Berlin
17:00 hrs
End of Conference