Agenda

Multidimensional and Integrated Peace Operations: Trends and Challenges. Common challenges, different institutional frameworks: the UN, EU and NATO

Agenda

0830-0900  Registration, coffee and Danish pastry in the lobby

0900-0905  Welcome and introductory remarks

Mr. Espen Barth Eide, Deputy Minister of Defence, Oslo (5 min)

0910-0950 Panel 1
Multidimensional and Integrated Peace Operations: Strategic and Operational Trends and Challenges

Speaker:  Mr. Espen Barth Eide, Deputy Minister of Defence, Oslo (15 min)

Moderator: Mr. Geir O. Pedersen, Personal Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Southern Lebanon

Panel:  Ms. Joachime Nason, Civilian-Military Relations, Humanitarian Aid Department (ECHO), EU Commission   (5 min)

Mr. Amjad Abbashar, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), UN (5 min)

Brigadier General Reinhardt Trischak, Director, Policy and Plans Division, EU Military Staff (5 min)

Mr. Ed Schenkenberg, Coordinator, International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA), Geneva (5 min)

0950-1020  Discussion (open to the audience, 30 min)

1020-1055  Panel 2
The United Nation’s Approach to Multidimensional and Integrated Peace Operations: Concepts and Challenges

Speaker: Mr. David Harland, Director, Office of Operations, Middle East, Europe and Americas, Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), UN (15 min)

Moderator: Ms. Lise Grande, Head of Integrated Office, UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC)

Panel:  Focus on experiences and challenges as seen from the theatre:

 Major General Robert Mood, Chief of Staff, Norwegian Army (5 min)

Lieutenant Colonel Ben F. Klappe, former Special Assistant to the Military Adviser, Department of Peacekeeping Operations (UN) (5 min)

1055-1125  Discussion (open to the audience, 30 min)

1125-1145  Coffee break (20 min)

1145-1220  Panel 3
The European Union’s Approach to Multidimensional and Integrated Peace Operations: Concepts and Challenges

Speaker: Mr. Pieter Feith, Deputy Director-General for Politico-Military Affairs, General Secretariat of the Council of the EU (15 min)

Moderator: Mr. Richard Gowan, Center on International Cooperation, New York University

Panel:  Focus on experiences and challenges:

Mr. David Harland, Director, Office of Operations, Middle East, Europe and Americas, Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), UN (5 min)

Mr. Diego Ruiz Palmer, Head of Planning Section, Operations Division, NATO HQ (5 min)

Mr. Richard Wright, European Commissions Representative to the Political and Security Committee (PSC), EU Commission (5 min)

1220-1250  Discussion (open to the audience, 30 min)

1300-1430  Buffet lunch

1430-1505  Panel 4
NATO’s Approach to Multidimensional and Integrated Peace Operations: Concepts and Challenges
 
Speaker: Mr. John Colston, Assistant Secretary-General for Defence Policy and Planning, NATO HQ (15 min)

Moderator: Mr. Kim Traavik, Ambassador, Norwegian Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council

Panel:  Focus on experiences and challenges:

Mr. Michael Williams, Head, Transatlantic Program, (RUSI) (5 min)

Ms. Claude-France Arnould, Director, Defence Issues, General Secretariat of the Council of the EU (5 min)

Ms. Annette Jansen, Humanitarian Advocacy Officer, Oxfam Novib, The Hague (5 min)

1505-1535  Discussion (open to the audience, 30 min)

1535-1555  Coffee break (20 min)

1555-1620  Panel 5
Achieving Integrated Operations
 
Moderator and Introductory Remarks: 
Mr. Espen Barth Eide, Deputy Minister of Defence, Oslo

Panel:  Ms. Lise Grande, Head of Integrated Office, UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) (5 min)

Mr. Pieter Feith, Deputy Director General for Politico-Military Affairs, General Secretariat of the Council of the EU (5 min)

Mr. John Colston, Assistant Secretary-General for Defence Policy and Planning, NATO HQ (5 min)

1620-1700  Discussion (open to the audience, 40 min)

1700   End of Seminar