09:00 – 09:40
| Opening Session
Introductory Remarks
- Dr. Ghassan ElKahlout, Director of the Centre for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies
Opening Address
Keynote Speaker - Mr. Martin Griffiths, Former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
|
| 09:40 – 10:40 | Session One: The Changing Landscape of Global Conflict and Mediation
Moderator: Mr. Mouin Rabbani
Speaker
- Dr. Comfort Ero, President & CEO of International Crisis Group
Panelists - Professor Tarek Mitri, Former Special Representative of the UN Secretary General
- Dr. Sara Hellmuller, Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies
- Mr. Asif Khan, Director, Policy and Mediation Division, UN Department of Political & Peacebuilding Affairs
- Mr. Dan Smith, Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
|
Plenary Discussion
|
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Break
|
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Session Two: Technological Innovation and Conflict Mediation
Moderator: Mr. Hafed Al Ghwell
Speaker
- Dr. Andreas Hirblinger, Senior Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding, Geneva Graduate Institute
Panelists
- Dr. Evelyne Tauchnitz, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Social Ethics, University of Lucerne
- Mr. Alessandro Accorsi, Senior Analyst, Technology and Conflict, International Crisis Group
- Ms. Megan Grazier, Associate, Build Up
- Mr. Shamil Idriss, Chief Executive Officer, Search for Common Ground
|
| Plenary Discussion |
| 12:00 – 12:15 | Break |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | Session Three: Half the Sky: Innovation in Response to Resistance
Moderator: Ms. Christina Buchhold
Speaker
- Ms. Sanam Anderlini Naraghi, President, International Civil Society Action Network
Panelists
- Dr. Nofe Khalid Al-Suwaidi, Acting Director of International Cooperation Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Qatar
- Ms. Hind Aboud Kabawat, President, Tastakel
- Ms. Meredith Preston McGhie, Secretary General, Global Centre for Pluralism
- Mr. Jonathan Cohen, Executive Director, Conciliation Resources
|
Plenary Discussion
|
| 13:15 – 14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Session Four: Diversity in Mediation: A Matter of Approaches and Interests?
Moderator: Ms. Anna Hesse
Speaker
- Mr. Itonde Kakoma, President, Interpeace
Panelists
- Dr. Khalid Abdulaziz Al-Khulaifi, Office of the Special Envoy to the Foreign Minister, Qatar.
- Ms. Yun Sun, Director of the Stimson Center China Program
- Dr. Esra ‚uhadar, Head of Research at the Ottawa Dialogue, Associate Senior Fellow, Inclusive Peace
- Dr. Vasu Gounden, Executive Director of the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes
|
Plenary Discussion
|
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Break
|
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Session Five: Humanitarian Diplomacy and the Frontiers of Conflict Mediation
Moderator: Dr. Randa Slim
Speaker
- Mr. Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner General of UNRWA
Panelists
- H.E. Dr. Majed bin Mohammad Al Ansari, Advisor to the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Qatar, Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Mr. Martin Griffiths, Former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
- Ms. Mona Yacoubian, Vice President, the Middle East and North Africa, United States Institute of Peace
|
| Plenary Discussion |
17:00 – 17:30
| Closing Session
- Dr. Ghassan ElKahlout, Director of the Centre for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies
Closing Remarks - H.E. Dr. Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Al-Khulaifi, Minister of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
|