Day 1

(OPEN TO PUBLIC)

Opening Session

Chair: Hisashi Owada

Welcome

Hisashi Owada, Judge, International Court of Justice, The Hague (conference co-chair)

Yuzan Fujita, Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture

Message by Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, delivered by Lakhdar Brahimi

Introduction to the Conference

Marcel A. Boisard, Executive Director, UNITAR, Geneva (conference co-chair)

Tommy Koh, Chairman, Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore (conference co-chair)

Keynote

Ichiro Aisawa, Senior Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Japan

Keynote

Martti Ahtisaari, Former President of  Finland; Chairman, War-torn Societies Project International

Remarks

Katsuyuki Kawai, Diet Member, Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Japan

Closing by Chair

(CLOSED SESSIONS)

Session I: The New Environment for Securing Peace

Chair: Tommy Koh

Collective Security and the Use of Force: Reflections on the Report of the UN High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change

Ramesh Thakur, Senior Vice Rector, United Nations University, Tokyo

Trends in Warfare and Implications for UN Peace Operations   

Justin Kelly, Brigadier, Director-General, Future Land Warfare, Department of Defence, Canberra

Session I Discussions

Session II: A Review of Past Practice; lessons learnt from Peacekeeping and Nation-building

Chair:  Marcel Boisard

The Humanitarian Perspective  

Jean Abt, Member of the Assembly Council, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Lt.-General of the Swiss Army (Rtd.), Geneva

The Development Perspective

Sukehiro Hasegawa, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Resident Co-ordinator, United Nations` Operational Activities for Development in Timor-Leste, Dili  

A Peacekeeper’s Perspective

Michael Smith, CEO, AUSTCARE, Canberra

An NGO Perspective

Matthias Stiefel, Executive Director, War-torn Societies Project International, Geneva

Session II Discussions

Side Events:

Welcome Reception hosted by the Prefecture of Hiroshima

Screening of documentary ‘Route to Baghdad’ on the life and work of Sergio Vieira de Mello

Day 2

Side Events:

Guided Visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and Park

Welcome Remarks Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima

Session III:  New Trends in Peace Operations

Chair: Hisashi Owada

Emerging Trends in Peacekeeping and Nation-building: A Review

James Dobbins, Director of the International Security and Defence Policy Centre, RAND Corporation, Washington D.C.

The United Nations as Government: The cases of  Eastern Slavonia, East Timor and Kosovo

Julian Harston, Director UN Office, Belgrade

Nation‑Building: The Case of Afghanistan

Alastair Mckechnie, Country Director for Afghanistan, The World Bank, Washington D.C.

Nation-building: New Roles and Responsibilities for Donors

Izumi Nakamitsu, Senior Advisor on Peacebuilding, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

Session III Discussions

Session IV: Perspectives for a UN Modus Operandi in the 21st Century

Chair: Marcel A. Boisard

Threats and Responses: Overview of Lessons from Recent Missions

David Harland, Chief, Peacekeeping Best Practices Unit, United Nations, New York

International Intervention: Some Legal Challenges

Jean-Phillipe Lavoyer, Head, Legal Division, ICRC, Geneva

Peace Operations and Civilian Protection

Dennis McNamara, Special Advisor on Internal Displacement, OCHA, Geneva

Session IV Discussions

Session V: Where Does the United Nations Go from Here? 

Chair: Tommy Koh

Afghanistan and Iraq: Exceptions or Scenarios for the Future? 

Lakhdar Brahimi, Special Advisor to the Secretary-General, United Nations, New York

Open discussions

Co-chairs’ Commentary

Day 3

Side Events:

Trip to Miyajima Island and Itsukushima Shrine