MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
PROGRAMME
PAKISTAN: SOURCES OF STABILITY AND INSTABILITY
Monday 31 March – Friday 4 April 2008
WP919th WILTON PARK CONFERENCE with support from the Global Conflict Prevention Pool, a joint UK Government approach to reducing conflict
MONDAY 31 MARCH 2008
1745 Participants arrive onwards
1900 Reception 1930 Dinner
TUESDAY 1 APRIL 2008
0930-0945 INTRODUCTION TO THE CONFERENCE Isobelle JAQUES Programme Director, Wilton Park
0945-1115 1 HOW CAN DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS BE BEST STRENGTHENED IN THE TRANSITION FROM MILITARY RULE? Shahid Javed BURKI Former, Vice President, World Bank, Washington DC; Chairman, Institute of Public Policy, Lahore
1115-1200 Photograph and Tea/Coffee
1200-1300 2 TAKING STOCK: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS The Rt Hon the Lord MALLOCH-BROWN Minister for Africa, Asia and the United Nations, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London
1315 Lunch
1500-1630 3 COUNTERING TERRORISM AND EXTREMISM: WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE? Aftab Ahmad Khan SHERPAO Former Federal Interior Minister; Member, National Assembly, Islamabad Shazadi BEG Barrister and Judge, London
1630-1700 Tea/Coffee
1700-1830 4 PARALLEL WORKING GROUPS ON HOW TO ADDRESS SOURCES OF INSTABILITY:
• BALUCHISTAN Frederic GRARE Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC
• WHAT ARE THE RISKS OF NUCLEAR TERRORISM? Timothy D. HOYT Professor, Strategy and Policy, US Naval War College, Newport
• HOW CAN ETHNIC AND SECTARIAN TENSIONS BE BEST ADDRESSED? Yunus SAMAD Director of Ethnicity Social Policy Research Centre, University of Bradford
• ADDRESSING CORRUPTION Jeremy CARVER Board Member/Trustee, Transparency International (UK), London
1830 - 1915 5 REPORT BACK FROM WORKING GROUPS
2000 Dinner
WEDNESDAY 2 APRIL 2008
0900-1030 6 HOW CAN STABILITY BE PROMOTED IN THE FEDERALLY ADMINISTERED TRIBAL AREA, AND THE BROADER TRIBAL BELT? Rustam SHAH MOHMAND Ambassador of Pakistan to Afghanistan (2002-2005); Consultant, Pak-Afghan Peace Jirga, Peshawar Khalid AZIZ Former Chief Secretary, NWFP; Chairman, Regional Institute of Policy Research and Training, Peshawar
1030-1100 Tea/Coffee
1100-1230 7 HOW CAN ECONOMIC GROWTH IN PAKISTAN REDUCE POVERTY AND PROMOTE POLITICAL STABILITY? Abdul Hafeez SHAIKH Former Federal Minister of Privatisation and Investment, Islamabad
1300 Lunch
1500-1630 8 WHAT STEPS CAN BE TAKEN TO REDUCE THE ROLE OF THE MILITARY IN POLITICS AND CIVIL SOCIETY? Asad DURRANI Lieutentant General (rtd); former Director General, Inter-Services Intelligence, Rawalpindi
1630-1700 Tea/Coffee
1700-1830 9 PARALLEL WORKING GROUPS ON:
• HOW CAN AID FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT BE BEST USED TO PROMOTE POLITICAL STABILITY? Ali T. SHEIKH Chief Executive Officer, Lead Pakistan, Islamabad
• WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT: WHAT CAN BE DONE? Farida SHAHEED Deputy Director, Research Project Consortium: “Women’s Empowerment in Muslim Contexts: gender, poverty and democratisation from the inside out”; Advisor, Shirkat Gah, Lahore
• PROMOTING GREATER GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY AND ENGAGEMENT OF CITIZENS IN BUILDING AN EFFECTIVE STATE: WHAT ROLE CAN THE MEDIA AND OTHER CIVIL SOCIETY ACTORS PLAY? Najam SETHI Editor, The Friday Times, Lahore
• HOW CAN HUMAN RIGHTS BE MORE EFFECTIVELY PROTECTED? Ali Dayan HASAN South Asia Researcher, Human Rights Watch
2000 Dinner
THURSDAY 3 APRIL 2008
0900-1000 10 REPORT BACK FROM WORKING GROUPS
1000-1030 Tea/coffee
1030-1230 11 PAKISTAN AND ITS NEIGHBOURS: HOW WILL RELATIONS DEVELOP? Daniel MARKEY Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations, Washington DC Ahmed RASHID Writer and author, Lahore
1300 Lunch
1430-1630 12 DO EXTERNAL ACTORS NEED TO RE-THINK STRATEGIES? Heino MARIUS Principal Administrator and Deputy Head of Unit for Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, External Relations Directorate General, European Commission, Brussels Antony STOKES Head, South Asia Group, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London
1630-1700 Tea/Coffee
1700-1830 13 PROMOTING STABILITY IN PAKISTAN: NEXT STEPS? Mushahid HUSSAIN SAYED Senator, Islamabad Hilary SYNNOTT Consulting Senior Fellow, International Institute of Strategic Studies, London
1930 Drinks 2015 Conference Dinner
FRIDAY 4 APRIL 2008
0800 Breakfast
0915 Participants depart