The Conference Programme
Please see below or download the programme here.
Conference Day I: Tuesday, 24 June 2008
09:00 | Registration |
10:00 | Workshops |
Uni-Mail | Planning for the Future and Managing Change in Research Institutes and Think-Tanks |
Uni-Mail | Governance and Nature Conservation: Between Participation and Coherence |
| Roundtable |
12:30 | Lunch Break |
Uni-Mail | Euforic Business Meeting |
14:00 | Opening Book Exhibition and Information Stands |
14:30 | EADI Executive Committee Meeting (members only) |
14:30 | Workshops |
Uni-Mail 1170 | Planning for the Future and Managing Change in Research Institutes and Think-Tanks (cont'd) |
Uni-Mail 1150 | Governance and Nature Conservation: Between Participation and Coherence (cont'd) |
Uni-Mail 1160 | Rethinking Poverty Reduction Strategies: The Role of Social Policy |
Uni-Dufour | Showcasing Knowledge and Information Services |
15.30 | EADI Working Group Conveners Meeting |
16.00 | Inter-regional Coordinating Committee of Development Associations (ICCDA) Meeting |
16.00 | Registration (cont'd) |
17.00 | Coffee Break |
17.30 | Dudley Seers Public Lecture |
Conference Day II: Wednesday, 25 June 2008
08:30 | Registration (cont'd) |
09:00 | Opening Session |
10:00 | Plenary Session I |
12:30 | Lunch Break |
Uni-Mail R160 | EADI Directors Meeting (Lunch) |
14:30 | Workshop |
14:00 | |
14:00 | Europe-Africa Policy Research Network Meeting (EARN members only) |
16.00 | Coffee Break |
16:30 | |
18.30 | Public Lecture |
19.30 | Reception |
Conference Day III: Thursday, 26 June 2008
09:00 | Plenary Session II |
10:30 | Coffee Break |
11:00 | Plenary Session II (cont'd) |
12:30 | Lunch Break |
13:30 | Book Lauch and Workshop: Globalization and Environmental Challenges. Reconceptualizing Security in the 21st Century. |
14:00 | |
Uni-Mail 2160 | Roundtable |
Uni-Dufour | Mini-Symposium |
16.30 | Coffee Break |
17:00 | EADI General Assembly (registered members only) |
19.00 |
Conference Day IV: Friday, 27 June 2008
09:00 | Parallel Sessions I |
Uni-Mail S150 | Multilevel Governance and Livelihood Strategies of Migrants |
Uni-Mail S160 | Equity, Economics and Ecology: New Technologies, New Threats? |
Uni-Mail S130 | Recognising Multiple Knowledges for Better Governance and Sustainable Development: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges |
Uni-Mail 1160 | Global Governance, SADC and Liberation Movements as Governments in Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe |
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10:30 | Coffee Break |
11:00 | Parallel Sessions II |
Uni-Mail S160 | European Development Co-operation to 2020: Emerging Issues for Europe's Development Policymaking |
Uni-Mail S150 | Migration and Development: Policy Coherence and Effective Partnerships |
Uni-Mail 1160 | Global Governance and Sustainable Development in the Middle East |
Uni-Mail 1170 | Governing the Gift of Nature: The Links between Governance, Conflict and Natural Resources |
Uni-Mail 1150 | |
12:30 | Lunch Break |
Uni-Mail R160 | Meeting of the newly elected EADI Executive Committee |
| EADI Working Group Meeting |
13:00 | Roundtable (Concluding Session) |
Uni-Mail S150 | Issues in Migration |
13:30 | |
14:30 | Plenary Session III |
16:30 | Closing Speech |
17.00 | Coffee Break |
18:00 | Public Lecture Food Crisis Jean Ziegler Consultative Committee of the Human Rights Council Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food |
19.30 | Dinner for Executive Committee Members and Organizers (by invitation only) |
Conference Day V: Saturday, 28 June 2008
09:00 | |
12:30 | End |
EADI General Conference 2008
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The Conference
- Introduction
- General Programme
- Working Group Programme
and Papers - Conference report
- Report conference report presentation (25 March 2009)

