Stabilising
Afghanistan:
Developing
Security and Securing Development
DRAFT
PROGRAMME
17 April
2008
CEPS
Conference Room
1,
place du Congrès
1000
Brussels
14
April 2008
Opening
12:30-13:15
Sandwich lunch hosted by the NATO PA /
DCAF
13:15
Welcome /
Introduction
José Lello,
President of the NATO PA
Simon Lunn, Senior Fellow, DCAF, and
Associate Fellow, Geneva Centre for
Security Policy (GCSP)
Keynote Address
13:30-14:15
Ali Ahmad Jalali, Distinguished Professor at the Near East South Asia
Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University; former Interior
Minister of Afghanistan
Challenges to Stability in
Afghanistan and Key Responses:
Security Sector Development and the Rule of
Law
Followed by Q&A
Security CHALLENGES: Ongoing Operations and DEfence & Security
Sector reform
14:15-15:45
Moderator: Simon Lunn, Senior Fellow, DCAF, Associate Fellow,
GCSP
Security
Situation in Afghanistan
and International Security Stabilisation Efforts: An Overall
Assessment
Nicholas Grono, Deputy President,
International Crisis Group (ICG)
NATO's
Stabilisation Strategy
Gordon Brett, Head, Operations Section,
NATO
The EU
Contribution: The ESDP Police Mission in
Afghanistan, EUPOL
AFGHANISTAN
Jean-Baptiste Valmary,
EU Council
Secretariat
The Missing
Dimension: the Border Issue and the Role of
Pakistan
Anatol Lieven, KingÂ’s
College
15:45-16:00
Coffee
break
Development
challenges: Drugs, Rule of Law, GOVERNANCE
16:00-17:30
Moderator: David Hobbs, Secretary General, NATO
PA
The Challenges of
Establishing the Rule of Law in
Afghanistan
Sari Kouvo, Senior Program
Fellow on Afghanistan -
International Centre for Transitional Justice, Research Fellow -
NATO
Defence
College
The
Drugs Challenge
Philippa Rogers, Deputy Head of the Afghan Drugs
Inter-Departmental Unit (ADIDU), Foreign and Commonwealth
Office, UK
Reconstruction and Development: the European Commission's
Contribution
Bettina Muscheidt, EU
Commission, RELEX, Desk Afghanistan
Concluding remarks:
Hugh Bayley, General Rapporteur, Economics and Security Committee, NATO PA
17:30
End of meetings