7th SDC 2004 Agenda
Seventh Sustainable Development Conference
Troubled Times: Sustainable Development and Governance in the Age of Extremes
December 8- 10, 2004 Holiday Inn, Islamabad
Day One
Wednesday, December 8, 2004 Day One
Opening Plenary 9:30 am – 11: 00 am
Welcome and Introduction Dr. Saba Gul Khattak Executive Director, SDPI, Pakistan
Opening Address
Mr. Shamsul Mulk Chairperson, BoG, SDPI, Pakistan
Book Launch
Sustainable Development: Bridging the Research/Policy Gaps in Southern Contexts Major (Retd) Tahir Iqbal, Minister for Environment, Pakistan
Keynote Address
The Idea of South Asia Dr. Ashis Nandy Center for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), India
TEA 11:00 am – 11:30 am
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Wednesday, December 8, 2004 Day One
Concurrent Session A-1 11:30 am – 1:15 pm Panel: Global Governance for Trade and Sustainable Development: An Agenda for the WTO Session I: Regional Agreements Organizer: Shaheen Rafi Khan Chair: Haroon Sharif, DFID, Pakistan Discussant: Faisal Bari, Mahbub-ul-Haq Development Centre, Pakistan Speakers Title Adil Najam, Tufts University, USA Is The Global Trading System Disintegrating: Is that Good or Bad? Hernan Blanco, RIDES, Chile South American Perspectives on Trade, Environmental and Sustainable Development: WTO and Beyond Huma Fakhar, Fakhar Law International, Pakistan An Economic and Legal Benefit Analysis of Regional Trade Agreements Discussion Lunch 1:15 pm – 2:00 pm Concurrent Session A-2 11:30 am – 1:15 pm Panel: Violence, Displacement and the Issue of Identity – 1947 Organizer: Ahmed Salim Chair: Saba Gul Khattak, SDPI, Pakistan Discussant: Yasmin Saikia, UNC-Chapel Hill, USA Speakers Title Ian Talbot, Coventry University, UK The 1947 Violence and the Migration and Resettlement of Muslims from Amritsar Ishtiaq Ahmed, Stockholm University, Sweden Punjabi Identities Before and After the 1947 Partition of Punjab Pippa Virdee, Coventry University, UK Migration and Post-Partition Resettlement in Lyallpur: The Impact of Refugee Labour Discussion Lunch 1:15 pm – 2:00 pm Concurrent Session A-3 11:30 am – 1:15 pm Panel: Alternative Realities: The Voice and Role of Fiction Writers Organizer: Kiran Nazir Ahmad Chair: Ameena Saiyid, Oxford University Press, Pakistan Discussant: Lubna Chaudhry, SUNY Binghamton University, USA Speakers Title Christina Oesterheld, University of Heidelberg, Visions and Values: Some Recent Urdu Novels Germany Ritu Menon, Women Unlimited, India The Dissenting Feminist Voice in a Globalized Marketplace Ravni Thakur, Delhi University, India Women Writers as Agents of Change: Some Comparative Perspectives Muneeza Shamsie, Literary Critic and Journalist, Pakistani English Fiction: Tales of Conflict and Pakistan Violence Discussion Lunch 1:15 pm – 2:00 pm
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Wednesday, December 8, 2004 Day One Concurrent Session B-1 2:00 pm – 3:45 pm Panel: Global Governance for Trade and Sustainable Development: An Agenda for the WTO Session II: Trade and Sustainable Development: A Southern Agenda Organizer: Shaheen Rafi Khan Chair: Haoling Xu, UNDP, Pakistan Discussant: David Boyer, IISD, Canada Speakers Title Shaheen Rafi Khan, SDPI, Pakistan The WTO, Trade and Sustainable Development: A Southern Agenda Yousaf Haroon, PTCL Academy, Pakistan Trade, Telecom and Sustainable Development: Are Current Telecom Market Trends Leading us towards Sustainable Development? Dawood Mamoon, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague Trade Liberalization and Wage Movements of Unskilled Labor in the South Discussion Tea 3:45 pm – 4:15 pm Concurrent Session B-2 2:00 pm – 3:45 pm Panel: Violence, Displacement and the Issue of Identity – Post Partition Pakistan Organizer: Ahmed Salim Chair: Ian Talbot, Coventry University, UK Discussant: Pippa Virdee, Coventry University, UK Speakers Title Saba Gul Khattak, SDPI, Pakistan Post 9/11: Terror, Terrorists and Women in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas Muntassir Mamoon, Dhaka University, Bangladesh History, Power and Legitimacy: Bangladesh Perspective Hussain Ahmad Khan, NCA, Pakistan Constructing Identities through Symbols in South Punjab Yasmin Saikia, UNC-Chapel Hill, USA Bodies in Pain: Voicing a People’s History of 1971 Discussion Tea 3:45 pm – 4:15 pm Concurrent Session B-3 2:00 pm – 3:45 pm Panel: Health Care Finance and Delivery – Session I: International Experience Organizer: Shafqat Shehzad Chair: Anne Austen, DFID, Pakistan Discussant: Kaiser Bengali, Social Policy and Development Centre (SPDC), Pakistan Speakers Title Peter Coyte, University of Toronto, Canada (Un) Masking Policies of Health Care Finance Siripen Supakankunti, Chulalongkorn University, Thai Health System in Transition: Achieving Thailand Universal Coverage? Hasbullah Thabrany, School of Public Health, Indonesia Establishing Social Health Insurance in Indonesia: Concept, Processes and Lessons Paul Rueckert GTZ, Germany Universal Coverage and Equitable Access to Health Care: Lessons Learned from the German Health Insurance System for Low and Middle Income Countries Discussion Tea 3:45 pm – 4:15 pm
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Wednesday, December 8, 2004 Day One
Concurrent Session C-1 4:15 pm – 6:00 pm Panel: Communal Harmony in South Asia: Success Stories Organizer: Saleem Shah Chair: Saleem Shah, SDPI, Pakistan Speakers Title Ashis Nandy, CSDS, India Silence of the Wolves: Memories and Anti- Memories of a Genocide Nirmali Wijegoonawardana, University of Colombo, Road for Peace: A9 Opening a Road to Peace Sri Lanka Post-Conflict Transformation in Sri Lanka Sikander Mehdi, Karachi University, Pakistan Sindh: Building Peace through Harmonious Diversity Mahboob Sada, Christian Study Center, Pakistan Social and Communal Harmony: Real Stories of Success Arshed Bhatti, Civil Junction, Pakistan Future of Disharmony in the Context of History of Harmony in South Asia Discussion
Concurrent Session C-2 4:15 pm – 6:00 pm Panel: Exploring the South Asian Security Dimensions: Military, Economic, and Human Organizer: Moeed Yusuf Chair: Mushahid Hussain, PMLQ, Pakistan Speakers Title Ejaz Haider, Friday Times, Pakistan The Evolution of Pakistan’s Security Issues Moeed Yusuf, SDPI, Pakistan Streamlining the Indo-Pak Negotiation Agenda on Kashmir Adil Najam, Tufts University, USA Taking Security Seriously: Security for Whom, from What, Why and How Najma Najam, Fatima Jinnah University, Pakistan Human Security Issues Redefined: The Ant’s View
Discussion
Concurrent Session C-3 4:15 pm – 6:00 pm Panel: Health Care Finance and Delivery – Session II: Regional Experience Organizer: Shafqat Shehzad Chair: Peter C. Coyte, University of Toronto, Canada Discussant: Kaiser Bengali, Social Policy and Development Centre (SPDC), Pakistan Speakers Title Matiullah Khan and Fazl-e-Hakim Khattak, Ministry Health Care Financing: Overview and Prospects of Health, Pakistan for Pakistan’s Forthcoming Five Year Plan Shafqat Shehzad, SDPI, Pakistan Alternative Resource Mobilization Strategies for Pakistan’s Health Care Sania Nishtar, Heartfile, Pakistan Public-Private Partnership in Health: A Global Call to Action Talib Lashari, The Network, Pakistan Health Care Financing in Kerala: Lessons for South Asia Discussion
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Day Two
Thursday, December 9, 2004 Day Two Concurrent Session A-4 9:00 am – 10:45 am Panel: Governmental Structural Adjustments for Better Governance Towards Environmental Protection and Pollution Control in South Asia Organizer: Mahmood A. Khwaja Chair: Ali Tauqir Sheikh, LEAD, Pakistan Speakers Title Ram Charitra Sah, NGO FUWS, Nepal Environmental Regulation and its Compliance Status in Nepal Bharati Chaturvedi, CERAG, India Pollution Control Through Planning for Waste Management: The Case of Delhi, India Musharaf Ali Talpur, Sindh University, Pakistan Monitoring Pollution under Asymmetric Information and Enforcing Environmental Regulation: Implication for NEQS Compliance Process in Pakistan Himayat Ullah, NWFP Agricultural University, Poverty, Environment and Development: Exploring Pakistan the Links between three Complex Issues with Specific Focus on the Pakistan Case M. Irfan Khan, AIO University, Pakistan Improving Governance for Increasing Water Use Efficiency in Pakistan Discussion Tea 10:45 am – 11:15 am Concurrent Session A-5 9:00 am – 10:45 am Panel: The Experience of Democracy in the Subcontinent Organizer: Saba Gul Khattak Chair: Nasim A. Khan, AEDB, Pakistan Speakers Title Swarna Rajagopalan, Writer, India Epic Roots: Women, Democracy and Governance in the Valmiki Ramayana Rehan Ansari, Beaconhouse National University, The Garrison State in Pakistan and India post 9/11 Pakistan Mohammad Waseem, QAU, Pakistan Democracy and Conflict in Pakistan E. Sridharan, UPIASI, India Democracy and Conflict: the Communal Dimension Farzana Bari, QAU, Pakistan Gender Quotas and Democracy Discussion Tea 10:45 am – 11:15 am Concurrent Session A-6 9:00 am – 10:45 am Panel: Pakistan’s Energy Future: Is Nuclear Energy the Answer? Organizer: A. H. Nayyar Chair: Shams ul Mulk, SDPI, Pakistan Discussant: Saeed A. Durrani Speakers Title Pervez Tahir, Planning Commission, Pakistan Energy Planning and Policy in Pakistan A. H. Nayyar, SDPI, Pakistan Economics of Nuclear Energy Surendra Gadekar, Anumukti, India The Human Cost of Nuclear Energy: Some gathered Evidences Nasim A Khan/ Irfan Afzal Mirza (AEDB) Renewable Energy Options for Pakistan Discussion Tea 10:45 am – 11:15 am
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Thursday, December 9, 2004 Day Two Concurrent B-4 11:15 am – 1:00 pm Panel: Governmental Structural Adjustments for Better Governance Towards Environmental Protection and Pollution Control in South Asia Organizer: Mahmood A. Khwaja Chair: Tauqeer Sheikh, LEAD, Pakistan Speakers Title Mahmood A. Khwaja, SDPI, Pakistan Introducing Extended Producers Responsibility (EPR) in Pakistan Cai Kui, Yunnan University, China An Assessment of Development of Environment Linkage in Village Based Integrated Poverty Alleviation Project in Yunnan Province, P. R. China Ravi Agarwal, TL, India Augmenting Environmental Regulation for Effective Environmental Governance in India Hemantha Withanage, CEJ, Sri Lanka Environmental Mal-Governance in Depleting Environment – A case in Sri Lanka Saiful Islam, Rajshahi University, Bangladesh Governance Related Issues of Environmental Policy Development and Implementation in Bangladesh Discussion Lunch 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Concurrent Session B-5 11:15 am – 1:00 pm Panel: Human Trafficking in South Asia Organizers: Shahbaz Bokhari and Saba Gul Khattak Chair: Saifullah Chaudhary, ILO, Pakistan Discussant: Waheed Chaudhary, QAU, Pakistan Speakers Title Shahbaz Bokhari, Saba Khattak and Kiran Ahmed, Rapid Assessment on Trafficking in Children for Labor SDPI, Pakistan and Sexual Exploitation in Pakistan A. K. Masud Ali, INCIDIN, Bangladesh Trafficking in Persons: Towards an Inclusive Paradigm Tristan Burnett, IOM, Afghanistan Trafficking in Persons: An Analysis of Afghanistan Discussion Lunch 1: 00 pm – 2:00 pm
Concurrent Session B-6 11:15 am – 1:00 pm Panel: Women in Media: Problems and Prospects Organizer: Ahmed Salim Chair: Sherry Rahman, MNA, Pakistan Discussant: Ayesha Haroon, The Nation, Pakistan Speakers Title Tasneem Ahmar, Uks, Pakistan Changing Trends: Women in Print Media Beena Sarwar, GEO, Pakistan Pakistan: Women in Media Discussion Lunch 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
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Day Two Thursday, December 9, 2004 Day Two Concurrent Session C-4 2:00 pm – 3:45 pm Panel: Gender in the Multilateral Trading System Organizer: Karin Astrid Siegmann Chair: Karamat Ali, PILER, Pakistan Discussant: Faiza Effendi, UNDP, Pakistan Speakers Title Karin Astrid Siegmann, SDPI, Pakistan Global Services Liberalization – In Service of Gender Equality? Hiramani Ghimire, SAWTEE, Nepal Gender Implications of Nepal’s Accession to the WTO Irfan Mufti, South Asia Partnership, Pakistan Globalization and Rural Women in Pakistan Discussion Tea 3:45 pm – 4:15 pm
Concurrent Session C-5 2:00 – 3:45 pm Panel: Afghan Refugees/DPs in Pakistan: A Sustainable Solution? Organizers: Saba Gul Khattak Chair: Nasim Ashraf, National Commission on Human Development, Pakistan Discussant: Nancy Dupree, ACBAR, Pakistan Speakers Speakers Ewen Macleod, UNHCR, Pakistan Afghan Refugees in Pakistan – Sustainable Solutions in an Era of Change Afrasiab Khattak, HRCP, Pakistan Discussion Tea 3:45 pm – 4:15 pm
Concurrent Session C-6 2:00 pm – 3:45 pm Panel: Philanthropy and Law in South Asia (PALISA) Organizer: Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy Chair: Mahomed J. Jaffer, ICI, Pakistan Discussant: Salman Akram Raja, Raja Mohammad Akram & Co, Pakistan Speakers Title Shahnaz Wazir Ali, PCP, Pakistan Background, APPC & Philanthropy and Law in Asia Sumiyah Khair, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh Bangladesh: Registration and Regulatory Law Qadeer Baig, NGO Resource Centre (NGORC), Pakistan Pakistan: Legal Framework for Nonprofit Organizations Zafar Ismail, Economic Advisory Services, Pakistan South Asia: Comparative on Legal Frameworks for Nonprofit Organizations Discussion Tea 3:45 pm – 4:15 pm
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Sikander Brohi, Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum, Pakistan Mega Development Sans Local Concerns: A Case Study of Gwadar Deep Sea Port Tahira Sadaf and Karin Astrid Siegmann, SDPI, Gendered Livelihood Assets and Workloads in Pakistan Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) Discussion Concurrent Session D-6 4:15 pm – 6:00 pm Panel: Resource Rights and their Governance Implications Organizer: Shaheen Rafi Khan Chair: Angelika Koester Lassack, HBF, Pakistan Discussant: David Boyer, IISD, Canada Speakers Title Adil Najam, Tufts University, USA Resource Rights and Wrongs: The Governance Dimensions of Environmental Insecurity? Patricia Moore, IUCN, Thailand Whose Rights? Who’s Right?: Customary and Statutory Law for Managing Natural Resources in the Northern Areas of Pakistan Sultan-I-Rome, Government Degree College Matta, Governance of Forests in Swat in Historical Pakistan Perspective Urs Geiser, University of Zurich, Switzerland State Laws and Rivaj Exist, but what about Enforcement – Debating Forest Institutions and their Structural Intentions in the North-West of Pakistan Shaheen Rafi Khan, SDPI, Pakistan The Impact of Deforestation on Local Communities and its Economic and Institutional Dynamics: Evidence from Pakistan Discussion
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Day Three
Friday, December 10, 2004 Day Three Concurrent Session A-7 9:00 am – 10:45 am Panel: Gendered Violence in the Subcontinent – Session I Organizer: Saba Gul Khattak Chair: Nafisa Shah, Nazim, Paksitan Discussant: Emma Varley, SDPI, Pakistan Speakers Title Rubina Saigol, Independent Consultant, Pakistan Politics of the Body and the Body Politic: Gendered Violence in Pakistan Lubna Chaudhry, SUNY Binghamton University, USA Women in Sindh and Punjab: Experiences and Constructions of Multi-layered Violence Ritu Menon, Women Unlimited, India State Violence Against Women: A Consideration of Gujarat & Manipur Discussion Tea 10:45 am – 11:15 am Concurrent Session A-8 9:00 am – 10:45 am Panel: Global Governance for Trade and Sustainable Development: An Agenda for the WTO Session III: The WTO Agreement on Agriculture Panel Organizer: Shaheen Rafi Khan Chair: David Boyer, IISD, Canada Discussant: David Boyer, IISD, Canada Speakers Title Parashar Kulkarni, CUTS, India Producer-Consumer Linkage: The Case of the Indian Seafood Sector Wahid Abdallah, East West University, Bangladesh Market Access Issues: EU-Bangladesh Trade Regimes Ratnakar Adhikari, SAWTEE, Nepal Market Access Barriers on Select Agricultural Exports of Nepal Shaheen Rafi Khan & Moeed Yusuf, SDPI, Pakistan Potential Impact on Southern Farmers of Reducing Northern Subsides: Reflections From Pakistan Discussion Tea 10:45 pm – 11:15 pm Concurrent Session A-9 9:00 am – 10:45 am Panel: Sustainable Livelihoods in South Asia – Session II: Forestry and Livelihoods Organizers: Qasim Shah and Karin Astrid Siegmann Chair: Abid Suleri, OXFAM-GB/SDPI, Pakistan Discussant: Sanaullah, Forest Department, Pakistan Speakers Title Andreas Rothen, University of Zurich, Switzerland and Role of Various International Regimes in Setting Qasim Shah, SDPI/UN TIHP, Pakistan Forest Policy in Pakistan Babar Shahbaz (SDPI), University of Agriculture, Participatory Forest Management in North West Pakistan Frontier Province of Pakistan and Livelihood Strategies of Local People Muhammad Awais, University of Agriculture, Pakistan A Futuristic Study of Institutional Changes and Livelihood Assets of Forest Users in Mansehra District, NWFP, Pakistan Urs Geiser, University of Zurich, Switzerland State Actors’ Livelihoods and Acts of Translation Discussion Tea 10:45 am – 11:15 am
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Friday, December 10, 2004 Day Three
Concurrent Session B-7 11:15 am – 1:00 pm Panel: Governance Issues in Media – Session I: Electronic Media Organizer: Mohsin Babbar Chair: Moneeza Hashmi, PTV, Pakistan Discussant: Eamoinn Taylor, DFID, UK Speakers Title Jahanzeb Aziz, Independent Media Analyst, UAE Gaps between Governance and the Masses: The Case of the Devolution Plan Syed Abdul Siraj Ahmad, AIOU, Pakistan Mass Media and Post Modernism Matiullah Jan, Media Law Advocate, Pakistan District Governance & the Role of FM Radio Discussion Lunch 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Concurrent Session B-8 11:15 am – 1:00 pm Panel: Gendered Violence in the Subcontinent – Session II Organizers: Saba Khattak, Kiran Habib and Kiran Nazir Ahmad Chair: Sohail Safdar, Ministry for Women’s Development, Pakistan Discussant: Faqir Hussain, Law Commision, Government of Pakistan, Pakistan Speakers Title Saba Gul Khattak, Kiran N. Ahmad, Kiran Habib, Honor Killings in Pakistan SDPI, Pakistan Nausheen Ahmed, ICI, Pakistan Violence Against Women Masooma Qazilbash, Rozan, Pakistan Honor Killings and Violence Against Women in Punjab, Pakistan Discussion Lunch 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Concurrent Session B-9 11:15 am – 1:00 pm Panel: Food Security Organizer: Qasim Shah Chair: Karamat Ali, PILER, Pakistan Speakers Title Abid Suleri, OXFAM/SDPI, Pakistan Rural Food Security of Pakistan: Assessment and Way Forward Sahib Haq, WFP, Pakistan Urban Food Insecurity in Pakistan Jehangir Khan Khalil, FAO, Pakistan Food Security and Nutrition Linkages Discussion Lunch 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
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Friday, December 10, 2004 Day Three Concurrent Session C-7 2:30 pm – 4.15 pm Panel: Governance Issues in Media – Session II: Print Media Organizer: Mohsin Babbar Chair: Imtiaz Gul, Pakistan Discussant: Imtiaz Gul, Pakistan Speakers Title Ammara Durrani, The News, Pakistan Media and Governance: Bridging the Rural-Urban Divide Shafqat Munir, Action Aid/JDHR, Pakistan Media and Development Discussion Break 4.15 pm – 4.30 pm
Concurrent Session C-8 2:30 pm – 4.15 pm Panel: Endangered Cultural Heritage Organizers: Saleem Shah and Ahmad Salim Chair: Ishtiaq Ahmed, Stockholm University, Sweden Discussant: Amir Riaz, Awami Jamhoori, Pakistan Speakers Title Zubair Shafi Ghauri, NCA, Pakistan Ahmad Salim, SDPI, Pakistan/Mohi ud Din Hashmi, On the Record: Archival Issues in Pakistan Pakistan Tahir Kamran, History Dept., Government College Orality as a Source of History: A Case of Punjab University, Pakistan Nadeem Omar Tarar, Pakistan Seeing Woods For the Trees Discussion Break 4.15 pm – 4.30 pm
Concurrent Session C-9 2:30 pm – 4.15 pm Panel: Farmers Rights to Livelihoods in WTO Era Organizer: Qasim Shah Chair: Pradeep Mehta, CUTS, India Discussant: Abid Suleri, OXFAM-GB/SDPI, Pakistan Speakers Title Mita Dutta, CUTS, India A Study to Prepare a National Database on Medicinal Plants Available in Himalayan Region (Indian Part) Chamali Kumari Wickramaratne, LST, Sri Lanka Access, Benefit Sharing, Prior Informed Consent and Intellectual Property Rights Qasim Shah, SDPI/UN TIHP, Pakistan TRIPs, CBD and PIC: Access, Benefit Sharing; Options After TRIPs Ratnakar Adhikari, SAWTEE, Nepal Access, Benefit Sharing, Prior Informed Consent and Intellectual Property Rights Discussion Break 4.15 pm – 4.30 pm
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Friday, December 10, 2004 Day Three
Closing Plenary 4.30 pm – 5:00 pm
Vote of Thanks
Dr. Saba Gul Khattak Executive Director SDPI, Islamabad, Pakistan
Tea 5:00 pm
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