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Global Briefing 2011 Agenda

Day 1: Monday, October 24th, 2011

08:30–09:00	Registration
09:00–09:10	Welcome and Overview By Thomas Pickering (Board Member)
09:10–10:30	Stability, Justice, and Peace: An Achievable Trinity? (Plenary) An interactive discussion, introducing many of the themes which will feature in subsequent sessions, led by Kofi Annan (Board Member) and Louise Arbour (President & CEO), moderated by Lyse Doucet (BBC Senior Presenter and Correspondent)
10:30–11:00	Coffee Break
11:00–12:30	Crisis Group’s Origins: Residual Issues from the Balkans (Room I) Wesley Clark (Board Member), Sabine Freizer (Europe Program Director) and Marko Prelec (Balkans Project Director), moderated by Pär Stenbäck (Board Member) The Future of Multilateralism: The United Nations and the European Union – Conflict Preventers or Talk-Shops? (Room II) Javier Solana (Board Member), Fabienne Hara (Vice-President, Multilateral Affairs) and Alain Délétroz (Vice-President, Europe), moderated by Lord Mark Malloch-Brown (Board Member)
12:30–14:00	Lunch
14:00–15:30	The Caucasus and Central Asia: Existing Conflicts, Looming Challenges (Room I) Paul Quinn-Judge (Central Asia Project Director and Russia Adviser), Lawrence Scott Sheets (South Caucasus Project Director) and Ekaterina Sokirianskaia (North Caucasus Project Director), moderated by Igor Ivanov (Board Member) The Future of Conflict in the Middle East (Israel/Palestine, Israel/Arab World) (Room II) Nahum Barnea (Board Member) and Robert Blecher (Arab-Israeli Project Director), moderated by Hugh Pope (Turkey/Cyprus Project Director) )
15:30–16:00	Coffee Break
16:00–17:30	Corruption and Crime: Threats to Peace in Latin America (Room I) Mark Schneider (Senior Vice-President/Special Adviser on Latin America) and Javier Ciurlizza (Latin America Program Director), moderated by Silke Pfeiffer (Project Director, Colombia/Andes) The Future of Democracy in North Africa and the Middle East (Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Syria) (Room II) Ghassan Salamé (Board Member) and Rob Malley (Middle East and North Africa Program Director), moderated by Joost Hiltermann (Middle East and North Africa Deputy Program Director)
18:00–20:00	Evening Reception at Bibliothèque Solvay

Day 2: Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

09:00–10:30	The Future of Islamic Extremism: The Differing Cases of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Indonesia (Room I) Samina Ahmed (South Asia Project Director), Sidney Jones (Senior Adviser, Asia Program) and Candace Rondeaux (Afghanistan Senior Analyst), moderated by Lalit Mansingh (Board Member) The Intractable: Burma/Myanmar, Sudan, Somalia and Zimbabwe (Room II) Jim Della-Giacoma (South East Asia Project Director), EJ Hogendoorn (Horn of Africa Project Director) and Piers Pigou (Southern Africa Project Director), moderated by Ayo Obe (Board Member)
10:30–11:00	Coffee Break
11:00–12:30	Hot and Cold: China, the South China Sea and the Korean Peninsula (Room I) Robert Templer (Asia Program Director) and Dan Pinkston (North East Asia Deputy Project Director), moderated by Mark Schneider (Senior Vice-President) Electoral Salvation? Learning from Côte d’Ivoire, Preparing for the Congo, Looking Ahead to Kenya (Room II) Benjamin Mkapa (Board Member), Comfort Ero (Africa Program Director), Gilles Yabi (West Africa Project Director) and Thierry Vircoulon (Central Africa Project Director), moderated by Richard Atwood (Director of Research)
12:30–14:00	Lunch
14:00–15:30	Give Us Solutions: From Prevention to Intervention – What Works? (Plenary) Jean-Marie Guéhenno (Board Member), Sarah Cliffe (Special Representative/Director, World Development Report 2011, Conflict, Security, and Development) and Fabrice Pothier (Head of the Policy Planning Unit, Private Office of the Secretary General, NATO HQ), moderated by Nick Grono (Deputy President & COO)
15:30-15:45	Concluding Comments Louise Arbour

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