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Programme

Development Policy and the Armed Forces

Tuesday, 14 September 2004
 
9.00 a.m.

Opening Session:

The new security challenges: the need for conceptual adjustment in security and development policy

Welcome:

Arna Hartmann
Director
Development Policy Forum
InWEnt - Capacity Building International
Germany

Keynotes: Ibrahim Gambari
Under-Secretary-General
Special Adviser on Africa
United Nations
New York
  The transition from peace support missions to sustainable development - complementary and/or diverging objectives in the context of peace-building?
Erich Stather
State Secretary
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
German
y
  What are the development policy responses to new security policy challenges?
10.00 a.m.

Photo Session and Coffee Break

10.30 a.m.

Session I:

Reconstruction and peace building as an integral part of NATO-led out-of-area operations: the interplay between security and development policy in the Balkans

  • Jointly or just together? Developing strategies for peace in the Balkans between security and development policy imperatives
  • Joint responsibility, separate responsibilities? Division of tasks and understanding of roles between development policy and military actors
  • Specific features of NATO-led peace missions and their significance in the relationship between civil and military mandates

Chair:

Arna Hartmann
Director
Development Policy Forum
InWEnt - Capacity Building International
Germany
Input: Susan Woodward
Professor of Political Sciences
The Graduate Center
City University of New York
USA
Presentations: Enver Hasani
Director
Kosovo Government Office for International Cooperation and Regional Dialogue
Kosovo
Rory O'Sullivan
Former Country Manager for Serbia-Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, former Director of the Joint World Bank-EU Office for Southeast Europe
Consultant
The World Bank
Washington
Rainer Goerdeler
Deputy Director-General
Asia, South-Eastern Europe and Afghanistan
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Germany
12.30 p.m.

Lunch

1.30 p.m.

Session II:

United Nations peacekeeping and peace-building in Africa

  • Africa as the main continent for UN peace missions: How much is the international community able to become involved?
  • Factors in the (lack of) success of UN peace missions in Africa
  • Military peacekeeping and development policy peace-building - between multilateral responsibility, international acceptance and national interests
Chair: Rudolf Adam
President
Federal College for Security Studies (BAKS)
Germany
Input: Paul Collier
Professor of Economics
and Director
Center for the Study of African Economies (CSAE)
Oxford University
United Kingdom
Presentations: Manfred Eisele
General (ret.)
Former Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General for Africa

United Nations
New York
Gudrun Grosse Wiesmann
Deputy Director-General
Africa and the Middle East
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Germany
  Léonard She Okitundu
Ambassador at-large of the Head of State
Democratic Republic of the Congo
3.30 p.m. Coffee Break
4.00 p.m.

Session III:

Crisis prevention and peacekeeping under African responsibility - regional peace missions in Africa

  • Between own responsibility and external support - the conditions of civil reconstruction in the framework of African peace missions
  • Military and civil capabilities in crisis prevention - is the weighting set correctly?
  • Development of and external assistance for African peace capacities
Chair: Winrich Kühne
Director and Manager
Centre for International Peace Operations (ZIF)
Germany
Presentations: Jean-Claude Boidin
Head of Unit
Pan African and horizontal geographical issues
DG Development
European Commission (EC)
Brussels
Abdoulaye Fall
Force Commander
United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI)
Côte d'Ivoire
Sam Ibok
Director
Peace and Security Department
African Union(AU)
Addis Ababa
Discussion
5.30 p.m. End of Session
5.30 p.m. Bus transfer to the boat with a short stop at the hotel
6.30 p.m. Embarkment onto the boat
Dinner and sightseeing - boat cruise on the river Spree
. Dinner Keynote: Ursula Schäfer-Preuss
Director-General
Cooperation with Countries and Regions, Peace-Building and the United Nations
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Germany
10.00 p.m. Return by bus to the hotel

Wednesday, 15 September 2004

9:00 a.m.

Session IV:

Multilateral peacekeeping and reconstruction under a UN mandate: The example of Afghanistan

  • Enduring Freedom, ISAF and UNAMA - The conditions of peacekeeping and reconstruction in the field of tension created by differing goals
  • Impact of the mandate on the performance of civil tasks
  • Joint responsibility, separate responsibilities - regional reconstruction teams as a test case for the behaviour of civil and military actors in reconstruction processes? Best practice and lessons learnt
  • Joint strategic planning of peace missions and reconstruction processes - challenge or fiction?
Chair: Hans-Joachim Daerr
Director-General
Global Issues, the United Nations, Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid
Federal Foreign Office (AA)
Germany
Presentations: Duncan Francis
Former Commander
Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Mazar-e-Sharif
Afghanistan

Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff J7
Permanent Joint Headquarters (PJHQ)
United Kingdom
Jon Greenwald
Vice President
International Crisis Group (ICG)
Brussels
Hans-Joachim Preuß
Secretary General
German Agro Action (DWHH)
Germany
Ursula Schäfer-Preuss
Director-General
Cooperation with Countries and Regions, Peace-Building and the United Nations
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Germany
Discussion
10.30 a.m. Coffee Break
11.00 a.m. Session V:

Integrated Peace Planning (IPP)

  • How can a coherent approach be ensured, beginning with military peacekeeping and continuing through to sustainable development?
  • What examples exist of successful transitions from peacekeeping/ peace enforcement operations to sustainable development and reconstruction strategies?
  • How can complementary cooperation in the UN (DPKO, UNDP, GS, etc) be improved? How can Germany contribute to this area?
  • How are the demands placed on international and regional actors, e.g. the UN, EU, AU, ECOWAS, IFIs, changing with regard to the planning and financing of peace support missions?
  • Which international codes of conduct exist for development policy-military cooperation?
  • How should bilateral contributions to IPP be coordinated?
Chair: Adolf Kloke-Lesch
Deputy Director-General
Peace and Democracy, Human Rights, United Nations
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Germany
Presentations: Eckehard Fricke
Managing Director
EIRENE International Christian Service for Peace
Civil Peace Service (ZFD)
Germany
  Ibrahim Gambari
Under-Secretary-General
Special Adviser on Africa
United Nations
New York
Ron Keller
Director-General
DG International Co-operation (DGIS)
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Netherlands
Pierre-Richard Kohn
Deputy Director for Military Cooperation
Military and Defence Cooperation Directorate
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
France
Michael Matthiessen
Director
Civilian Crisis Management
External Relations
Council of the European Union
Brussels
Discussion
1.00 p.m. Closing: Adolf Kloke-Lesch
Deputy Director-General
Peace and Democracy, Human Rights, United Nations
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Germany
1.15 p.m. Arna Hartmann
Director
Development Policy Forum
InWEnt - Capacity Building International
Germany
Lunch
Adjourn

 
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