Print / easy read version

Programme

Monday ¦ Tuesday ¦ Wednesday

8^th International Security Forum

"COPING WITH GLOBAL CHANGE"

Conference Programme

International Conference Centre Geneva (CICG)

Monday, 18 May 2009

Time	Programme and Activities
1130 - 1400	Registration and Welcome Coffee and Tea
1400 - 1600	First Plenary Session: Towards an Unruly World?
	Words of Welcome Theodor H. WINKLER, Director, DCAF Opening Speech Anton THALMANN, Deputy State Secretary and Political Director, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs Courtesy Remarks Sergei ORDZHONIKIDZE, Director-General, United Nations Office at Geneva Courtesy Remarks on behalf of the Canton of Geneva Laurent MOUTINOT, Member of the Council of State Keynote Speeches Martti AHTISAARI, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2008, Helsinki introduced by Daniel WARNER, Director, Centre for International Governance, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Carol A. DUMAINE, Deputy Director for Energy and Environmental Security, Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, United States Department of Energy, Washington DC introduced by Fred TANNER, Director, GCSP Hamadoun I. TOURÉ, Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union, Geneva introduced by Daniel STAUFFACHER, Chairman, ICT4Peace Foundation; President, Geneva Security Forum
1600 - 1700	Press Talks
1600 - 1630	Coffee and Tea Break
1630 - 1800	Parallel Topic Sessions
	Topic 1 Will Democracy Win? Organised by: GCSP Moderator: Fred TANNER, Director, GCSP Speakers: Heraldo MUÑOZ, Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations, New York Assia BENSALAH ALAOUI, Professor, International Law Faculty, Université Mohamed V, Rabat Abdulaziz SAGER, Chairman, Gulf Research Center, Dubai	Topic 2 The End of Capitalism? Organised by: Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Moderator: Daniel WARNER, Director, Centre for International Governance, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Speakers: Ivan PICTET, Senior Managing Partner, Pictet & Cie, Geneva Paul DEMBINSKI, Director, Observatoire de la Finance, Geneva Cédric TILLE, Professor, International Economics, Graduate Institute of International Studies and Development Studies	Topic 3 Globalisation and the Five Dimensions of Global Security Organised by: GCSP Moderator: Nayef AL-RODHAN, Senior Geostrategist and Director, Programme on the Geopolitical Implications of Globalisation and Transnational Security, GCSP Speakers: Steven E. MILLER, Director, International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge Lisa WATANABE, Research Officer, Programme on the Geopolitical Implications of Globalisation and Transnational Security, GCSP Simon DALBY, Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa
1800 - 1845	Reception at the International Conference Centre Geneva (CICG) Courtesy Remarks on behalf of the City of Geneva Pierre MAUDET, Town Councillor
1930 - 2200	Official Dinner at the Grand Hotel Kempinski hosted by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs

Tuesday, 19 May 2009

Time	Programme and Activities
	Parallel Workshop Sessions
0900 - 1030	Strategic Technologies and Global Security	Security for Sale: the Invisible Hand of the Market Reforming the Security Sector?	Democratic Peace Revisited	Evaluating Peace Process Architectures	Energy Infrastructure as a Target: Risks and Implications	Explosive Remnants of War, Human Security and Development
0900 - 1030	Organised by GCSP	Organised by DCAF	Organised by PRIF	Organised by the GIIDS	Organised by CSS	Organised by GICHD
1030 - 1100	Coffee and Tea Break
1100 - 1230	The Geopolitics of Aerospace	Pariahs or Partners? Armed Non-state Actors and Security Governance	Somalia: A Forgotten Nation? A Forgotten People? A Forgotten Peace Process?	Who Makes Peace, Who Builds Peace? National Ownership in Peacebuilding Processes	Resource Supply Security: Whose Responsibility? Whose Business?	Facing the Illicit: Efforts Against Trafficking
1100 - 1230	Organised by GCSP	Organised by DCAF	Organised by CSS	Organised by GPP	Organised by S+F Hamburg	Organised by DCAF
1230 - 1400	Lunch
1400 - 1530	Cyber Security: Threats and Prospects	From Rhetoric to Reality: Local Ownership in Security Sector Reform	After Pax Americana: American Foreign Policy in a New Era	OSCE Future Operations and Leadership	Geostrategic Paradigms for the 21^st Century	Risk Management in International Affairs and Security
1400 - 1530	Organised by GCSP	Organised by DCAF	Organised by CSS	Organised by the GIIDS	Organised by GCSP	Organised by CSS
1530 - 1600	Coffee and Tea Break
1600 - 1730	Through the Cloud of Unknowing: Open Source Information as an Enabler of National Security	What Future for International Humanitarian Law?	The US - Europe - Russia: Redefining the Relations	Setting out a Global Armed Violence Agenda	Security in the Middle East: the Search for Order	Challenges of Education and Training in the Internet Age
1600 - 1730	Organised by CSS/ISN	Organised by GCSP	Organised by GCSP	Organised by the GIIDS	Organised by CSS	Organised by CSS/ISN
1930 - 2200	Optional Dinners hosted by Partner Institutions

Wednesday, 20 May 2009

Time	Programme and Activities
0900 - 1030	Parallel Topic Sessions

	Topic 4 Global Burden of Violence Organised by: ISF and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Moderator: Thomas GREMINGER, Head, Political Affairs Division IV (Human Security), Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs Speakers : Keith KRAUSE, Director, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding; Programme Director, Small Arms Survey, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Sima SAMAR, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Sudan, United Nations; Chair, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission Peter BATCHELOR, Chief, Conflict Prevention and Recovery Team, United Nations Development Programme Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, Geneva replacing Rubem César FERNANDES	Topic 5 Security and Development Organised by: ISF and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation Moderator: Martin DAHINDEN, Director, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation Speakers: Jayantha DHANAPALA, Former Ambassador of Sri Lanka; Former Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations Ndioro NDIAYE, Deputy Director General, International Organisation for Migration, Geneva Robin LUCKHAM, Research Associate, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton	Topic 6 Global and Regional Security Governance: Quo Vadis? Organised by: CSS Moderator: Andreas WENGER, Director, CSS Speakers : Alyson J. K. BAILES, Visiting Professor, University of Iceland, Reykjavík Bates GILL, Director, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Thomas BIERSTEKER, Curt Gasteyger Professor of International Security and Conflict Studies, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies; and Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science and the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, Providence
1030 - 1100	Coffee and Tea Break
1100 - 1300	Second Plenary Session: How to Cope with Change?
	Keynote Speeches Irene Z. KHAN, Secretary General, Amnesty International, London introduced by Barbara HAERING, President, GICHD Stephen P. GROFF, Deputy Director, Development Co-operation Directorate, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris replacing Richard CAREY introduced by Martin DAHINDEN, Director, Swiss Development and Cooperation Agency Mathis WACKERNAGEL, Executive Director, Global Footprint Network, Oakland, CA introduced by Nayef AL-RODHAN, Geostrategist and Director, Programme on the Geopolitical Implications of Globalisation and Transnational Security, GCSP Daniel FUNG, Chairman, Hong Kong Broadcasting Authority introduced by Andreas WENGER, Director, CSS Closing of the Conference Theodor H. WINKLER, Director, DCAF
1300	End of Conference and Individual Departure