Friday 8 September 2006
All day Delegates arrive in Geneva; registration
19:00 – 20:00 OPENING RECEPTION
20:00 – 22:00 OPENING DINNER
Welcoming Remarks
Professor François Heisbourg
Chairman of the International Institute for Strategic Studies
Dr John Chipman
Director-General and Chief Executive, IISS
Keynote Address
H E Sheik Dr Humam Hamoudi
Chairman of the Committee of Foreign Affairs, Iraqi Council of Representatives
"Prospects for Peace in Iraq"
Saturday 9 September 2006
08:45 – 09:00 OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE
09:00 – 10:45 FIRST PLENARY SESSION
THE TRANSFORMATION OF CONFLICT
Chair:
Lieutenant General (Retd) VR Raghavan
Director, Delhi Policy Group and Member of theCouncil, IISS
Speakers:
Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman
Vice-Principal (Research) and Professor of War Studies, King’s College London
“The Rise of Irregular Warfare”
Dr Eliot A. Cohen
Robert E Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies at the Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University
“The (Un)changing American Way of War”
Admiral (Retd) Dennis C. Blair
President, Institute for Defense Analyses and Member of the Council, IISS
“Combating Terrorism and Military Operations”
Lieutenant General Karl Eikenberry, U.S. Army
Commander, Combined Forces Command, Afghanistan
"Lessons Identified in Afghanistan"
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:45 SECOND PLENARY SESSION
MEETING THE PROLIFERATION CHALLENGE
Chair:
Sir Michael Quinlan
Consulting Senior Fellow, IISS
Speakers:
Ambassador Zukang Sha
Permanent Representative of the People's Republic of China to the United Nations Office at Geneva
Ambassador Friedrich Groening
Commissioner of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany for Arms Control and Disarmament
Dr Nikolay Spasskiy
Deputy Head, Federal Atomic Energy Agency
Russian Federation
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
15:00 – 18:00 SIMULTANEOUS BREAK OUT GROUPS
Group 1: ADDRESSING IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME
Chair:
Mark Fitzpatrick
Senior Fellow for Non-Proliferation, IISS
Speakers:
Dr Shahram Chubin
Director of Studies, Geneva Centre for Security Policy
“Iran’s Motivations and Political Dynamics”
Dr Alexei G. Arbatov
Scholar-in-Residence, Moscow Carnegie Center, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
“Regional Implications”
Dr Ariel Levite
Principal Deputy Director General (Policy), Israel Atomic Energy Commission
“Can Diplomacy Afford to Fail?”
Neil Crompton
Head of Iran Coordination Group, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
“Options for Iran”
Discussants:
Professor Paolo Cotta-Ramusino
Secretary General, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs and Professor, Universita’ degli Studi di Milano
Rapporteur:
Dr Dana Allin
Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Affairs, IISS; Editor, Survival
Group 2: COUNTERINSURGENCY: LESSONS LEARNED AND UNLEARNED
Chair:
Dr Eliot A. Cohen
Robert E Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies at the Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), John Hopkins University
Speakers:
General the Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank
Former Chief of the Defence Staff, UK
“The Objectives of Counterinsurgency”
Lieutenant General V.G. Patankar
Former Corps Commander (15 Corps), Indian Army
“The Experience in Kashmir”
Walter B. Slocombe
Former Senior Advisor for Security Sector and Defence Affairs, Coalition Provisional Authority, Iraq
“Building New Security Forces”
Dr David Kilcullen
Chief Strategist, Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, US State Department
“Counterinsurgency Redux”
Rapporteur:
Dr Toby Dodge
Consulting Senior Fellow for the Middle East, IISS
Group 3: COUNTERING GLOBAL TERRORISM
Chair:
Robert Whalley, CB
Former Director for Counter Terrorism and Intelligence at the UK Home Office
Speakers:
Professor François Heisbourg
Chairman of the International Institute for Strategic Studies
“The French Experience”
Professor Bassam Tibi
Professor of International Relations at the University of Gottingen, Germany
“European Counter-terror Strategies”
Dr Rohan Gunaratna
Head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, Singapore
“Countering Terrorism in Asia”
Professor Sir Adam Roberts
Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford, and Member, IISS Council
"The 'War on Terror': A Five Year Assessment"
Dr Newton Howard
President
Centre for Advanced Defence Studies
'The US Approach'
Discussant:
Dr Mamoun Fandy
Senior Fellow for Gulf Security, IISS
Rapporteur:
Alexander Nicoll
Director of Defence Analysis and Publications, IISS; Editor, Strategic Survey
Group 4: SECURITY AND THE KOREAN PENINSULA
Chair:
Adam Ward
Executive Director, IISS-US and Editor Strategic Comments
Speakers:
Ambassador Sung-joo Han
Professor and Director of the Ilmin International Relations Institute, Korea University
“Outlook for the Korean Peninsula”
Professor Mitchell B. Reiss
Vice Provost for International Affairs, The College of William and Mary
“An Inconvenient Truth: Implications of a Nuclear-Armed North Korea”
Dr Liru Cui
President, China Institute for Contemporary International Relations
“China’s Role”
Dr Narushige Michishita
Senior Research Fellow, National Institute for Defence Studies (NIDS), Tokyo
“How Stable is the North?”
Rapporteur:
Nicolas Maclean
Senior Fellow for Diplomatic and Corporate Membership Affairs, IISS
Group 5: FROM PEACEKEEPING TO PEACEBUILDING: EMERGING TRENDS
Chair:
Dr Theodor H. Winkler
Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces and Member of the Council, IISS
Speakers:
Gareth Evans
President , International Crisis Group
“The Use of Force”
Carl Bildt
Chairman, Kreab Group, Stockholm and Member of the Council, IISS
"From Peacekeeping to Peacebuilding"
General (Retd) Siphiwe ‘Ghebuzza’ Nyanda
Former Commander, South African National Defence Force
“Building Capable Security Institutions: The Experience of South Africa”
Andrew S. Natsios
Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, and former Administrator, US Agency for International Development
“From War to Peace to Development”
Discussants:
Dr Rita Hauser
President, The Hauser Foundation, and Member of the Council, IISS
Yukio Okamoto
Former Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Japan
Bernard Jeanty
Head, Arms Control and Disarmament Policy
Directorate for Security Policy
Swiss Federal Dept of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports
Rapporteur:
Hanna Ucko
IISS Conflict Management Analyst
Group 6: MARITIME SECURITY
Chair:
Dr Tim Huxley
Senior Fellow for Asia-Pacific Security, IISS; Editor, Adelphi Papers
Speakers:
Vice Admiral Madanjit Singh
Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Naval Command of the Indian Navy
“Maritime Security in the Indian Ocean”
Rear Admiral (Retd) Alexander Tavra
Former Secretary General of the Chilean Navy
“Maritime Security and Latin America”
Vice Admiral Patrick M. Walsh
Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, Commander, U.S. 5th Fleet, and Commander, Combined Maritime Forces
“Combined Maritime Operations in the Gulf Region”
Ambassador Carey Cavanaugh
Former Political Advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations, Washington DC
"A Multinational Global Maritime Strategy"
Discussant:
Rear Admiral Shahid Iqbal
Pakistan Navy and current Commander CTF-150
Rapporteur:
Rahul Roy-Chaudhury
Senior Research Fellow for South Asia, IISS
19:00 – 20:00 CORPORATE MEMBERS’ RECEPTION
20:00 – 22:00 RECEPTION, DINNER AND ADDRESS
INTRODUCTION
Dr Patrick M. Cronin
Director of Studies, IISS
AFTER-DINNER REMARKS
Professor Sir Michael Howard
President Emeritus, IISS
“A Long War?”
Sunday 10 September 2006
09:30 - 10:45 THIRD PLENARY SESSION
WHO SPEAKS FOR ISLAM?
Chair:
Sir Hilary Synnott
Consulting Senior Fellow, IISS
Speakers:
Dr Marwan Muasher
Former Deputy Prime Minister and Former Foreign Minister, Amman, Jordan
“Islam and the West”
Dr Farish Ahmad-Noor
Associate Fellow, Institute for Strategic and International Studies (ISIS), Malaysia
“Islam and the East”
10:45 - 11:15 COFFEE BREAK
11:15 - 13:15 FOURTH PLENARY SESSION
THE IMPACT OF ASIAN POWERS ON GLOBAL SECURITY
Chair:
Dr John Chipman
Director-General and Chief Executive, IISS
Speakers:
HE Jaswant Singh
Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha (House of States), New Delhi
“India’s Role in the World”
Dr Manuchehr Mohammadi
Deputy Foreign Minister for Education and Research
Tehran
“Iran’s Role in the World”
Dr Jiemian Yang
Vice President, Shanghai Institute for International Relations
“China’s Role in the World”
Ambassador Yukio Satoh
President, Japan Institute for International Affairs, Tokyo
“Japan’s Role in the World”
13:5 - 13:30 ENVOI
Professor François Heisbourg
