The Conference Programme

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Conference Day I: Tuesday, 24 June 2008

09:00
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R170

Registration

10:00

Workshops

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1170

Planning for the Future and Managing Change in Research Institutes and Think-Tanks
Organizer: Simon Maxwell, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), United Kingdom

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1150

Governance and Nature Conservation: Between Participation and Coherence
Organizer: Mark Hufty, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Switzerland



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1140

Roundtable

Issues in Megacities
Organizers: Inter-regional Coordinating Committee of Development Associations (ICCDA); EADI Working Group on Urban Governance

12:30

Lunch Break

Uni-Mail
R160

Euforic Business Meeting

14:00
Uni-Dufour

Opening Book Exhibition and Information Stands

14:30
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1130

EADI Executive Committee Meeting (members only)

14:30

Workshops

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Planning for the Future and Managing Change in Research Institutes and Think-Tanks (cont'd)
Organizer: Simon Maxwell, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), United Kingdom

Uni-Mail 1150

Governance and Nature Conservation: Between Participation and Coherence (cont'd)
Organizer: Marc Hufty, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Switzerland

Uni-Mail 1160

Rethinking Poverty Reduction Strategies: The Role of Social Policy
Organizer: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Switzerland

Uni-Dufour
Auditorium Rouiller

Showcasing Knowledge and Information Services
Organizer: EADI Working Group on Information Management and Euforic

15.30
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1193

EADI Working Group Conveners Meeting

16.00
Uni-Mail R160

Inter-regional Coordinating Committee of Development Associations (ICCDA) Meeting

16.00
Uni-Dufour Foyer Auditorium Piaget

Registration (cont'd)

17.00
Uni-Dufour

Coffee Break

17.30
Uni-Dufour
Auditorium Piaget

Dudley Seers Public Lecture
"Earthland". The World is a Developing Country


Tariq Banuri
Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Sweden

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Conference Day II: Wednesday, 25 June 2008

08:30
Uni-Dufour
Foyer Auditorium Piaget

Registration (cont'd)

09:00
Uni-Dufour
Auditorium Piaget

Opening Session

Juergen Wiemann (Chair)
Vice-President, EADI
Deputy Director, German Development Institute (DIE)

Jean-Dominique Vassalli
Rector, University of Geneva

Juerg Streuli
Ambassadeur, Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations Office and other International Organisations in Geneva

Jacques Forster
Vice-President, Board of the Foundation for International and Development Studies, Geneva

Jean-Luc Maurer
President, EADI

10:00
Uni-Dufour
Auditorium Piaget

Plenary Session I

Global Governance for Sustainable Development:
The Challenge of Policy Coherence among International Organizations

Desmond McNeill (Chair)
Vice-President, EADI
Centre for Development and the Environment, Oslo, Norway


Kemal Derviş
Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Bertrand Ramcharan
Former Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights and Assistant Secretary-General to the UN

Ngaire Woods
Director, Global Economic Governance Programme, Oxford, UK

12:30

Lunch Break

Uni-Mail R160

EADI Directors Meeting (Lunch)

14:30
Uni-Mail R160

Workshop

Planning for the Future and Managing Change in Research Institutes and Think-Tanks (Concluding Session)
Organizer: Simon Maxwell, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), United Kingdom

14:00
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EADI Working Groups Sessions

14:00
Uni-Mail 1130

Europe-Africa Policy Research Network Meeting (EARN members only)

16.00
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Coffee Break

16:30
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EADI Working Group Sessions

18.30
Uni-Dufour
Auditorium Piaget

Public Lecture
The Link between Sustainable Development and Migrations in Africa


Ndioro Ndiaye
Deputy Director General, International Organization for Migration (IOM)

19.30
Uni-Dufour
Foyer Auditorium Piaget

Reception
Co-sponsored by EADI, Canton of Geneva, Taylor & Francis

Presentation of the EADI Prize
Relaunch of the European Journal of Development Research (EJDR)

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Conference Day III: Thursday, 26 June 2008

09:00
Uni-Dufour
Auditorium Piaget

Plenary Session II

Can Economic Growth be Reconciled with Sustainable Development?
On a Knife-edge between Climate Change and Millennium Development Goals

Maja Bucar (Chair)
Vice-President, EADI
Center of International Relations, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Jean-Louis Arcand
Center for Studies and Research on International Development (CERDI), France

Charles Gore
UNCTAD, Switzerland

Wolfgang Sachs
Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Germany

Oswaldo de Rivero
Former Peruvian Ambassador to the UN and WTO

10:30
Uni-Dufour

Coffee Break

11:00
Uni-Dufour
Auditorium Piaget

Plenary Session II (cont'd)
Discussion

12:30

Uni-Dufour

Lunch Break

EADI Elections

13:30
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Book Lauch and Workshop: Globalization and Environmental Challenges. Reconceptualizing Security in the 21st Century.

14:00

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EADI Working Group Session

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Roundtable

Asymmetries in North-South Research Partnerships: Limits and Opportunities
Organizers: Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt), The Netherlands; Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), Norway; Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Switzerland; Centre of African Studies (CAS), Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Uni-Dufour
Auditorium Rouiller

Mini-Symposium

Hard Talk: Interrogating Open Access
Organizer: EADI Working Group on Information Management

16.30

Coffee Break

17:00
Uni-Dufour
Auditorium Piaget

EADI General Assembly (registered members only)

19.00

Cultural Event (Swiss Evening)

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Conference Day IV: Friday, 27 June 2008

09:00

Parallel Sessions I

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Multilevel Governance and Livelihood Strategies of Migrants
Organizer: EADI Working Group on International Migration

Uni-Mail S160

Equity, Economics and Ecology: New Technologies, New Threats?
Organizer: Department of Technology and Sustainable Development, University of Twente

Uni-Mail S130

Recognising Multiple Knowledges for Better Governance and Sustainable Development: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges
Organizer: EADI IKM Project

Uni-Mail 1160

Global Governance, SADC and Liberation Movements as Governments in Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe
Organizers: Dag Hammarskjoeld Foundation; Bologna University

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EADI Working Group Sessions

10:30
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Coffee Break

11:00

Parallel Sessions II

Uni-Mail S160

European Development Co-operation to 2020: Emerging Issues for Europe's Development Policymaking
Organizer: EADI Secretariat, Germany

Uni-Mail S150

Migration and Development: Policy Coherence and Effective Partnerships
Organizer: OECD Development Centre

Uni-Mail 1160

Global Governance and Sustainable Development in the Middle East
Organizer: University of Southern Denmark

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Governing the Gift of Nature: The Links between Governance, Conflict and Natural Resources
Organizer: Bonn International Center for Conversion

Uni-Mail 1150

EADI Working Group Sessions

12:30

Lunch Break

Uni-Mail R160

Meeting of the newly elected EADI Executive Committee



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EADI Working Group Meeting

WG 13 Transnational Corporations and Development (4)

13:00

Roundtable (Concluding Session)

Uni-Mail S150

Issues in Migration
Organizer: Inter-regional Coordinating Committee of Development Associations (ICCDA); EADI Working Group on International Migration

13:30
Uni-Dufour
Auditorium Rouiller

Book Launch and Presentation of the EADI Book Series

14:30
Uni-Dufour
Auditorium Piaget

Plenary Session III

Mobilizing Networks to Strengthen Global Governance: Research Communities, Civil Society and Business Communities

Isa Baud (Chair)
Vice-President, EADI
Adjunct Director, Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt), The Netherlands

Sangeeta Shashikant
Third World Network (TWN)

Bina Agarwal
Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi, India

Jonas Haertle
Academic Initiatives, Global Compact

Christoph Dunand
Realise, Switzerland

16:30
Uni-Dufour
Auditorium Piaget

Closing Speech
EADI President

17.00
Uni-Dufour

Coffee Break

18:00
Unidufour
Building

Public Lecture

Food Crisis
Gilbert Etienne, Emeritus professor, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

Biofuels and the Right to Food
Jean Ziegler
Consultative Committee of the Human Rights Council
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food

19.30
Restaurant, IHEID

Dinner for Executive Committee Members and Organizers (by invitation only)

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Conference Day V: Saturday, 28 June 2008

09:00
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Working Group Sessions

12:30

End

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