PROGRAMME BUILDING LOCAL CAPACITY FOR SECURITY AND RULE OF LAW IN FRAGILE AND CONFLICT AFFECTED STATES
Tuesday 22 – Friday 25 September 2009
958th WILTON PARK CONFERENCE
In partnership with Libra Advisory Group Ltd With support from the Center for Civil-Military Relations and the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy, US Department of Defense; the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada.
Conference Objectives The international community has been involved in attempts to strengthen the provision of security and justice in developing, conflict-affected and fragile states for many years; but there is still disagreement regarding the methodology and objectives of this work, and debate around the terminology which describes it. The term Security Sector Reform has become widely identified with donor-driven and controlled initiatives, and does not accommodate the crucial (for the citizen) connection between security and justice. This conference is aimed at informing and influencing the international community as well as host country stakeholders regarding the broader delivery of "security and justice sector development" (SJD) across a range of fragile and conflict-affected environments by examining: how to ensure greater local ownership and capacity development in the context of fragile and conflict- affected environments, including through the use of international assistance; how to balance local ownership trade-offs and dilemmas in the assessment, planning and implementation of SJD programmes; how host nations and donors can better align development of the security and justice sectors; and how donors can develop and direct their capacities to provide better advice and assistance to host nations.
TUESDAY 22 SEPTEMBER
1500 - 1515 Welcome to Conference and Introduction to Wilton Park
Robert GRANT Programme Director, Wilton Park, Steyning
1515 - 1700 1 THE ROLE OF SECURITY AND JUSTICE DEVELOPMENT (SJD) IN SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY
Phil MARKER Head, Conflict, Humanitarian and Security Department (CHASE), Department for International Development, London
Kabineh JA’NEH Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Monrovia
1700-1745 Conference Photograph followed by Tea/Coffee
1745- 1930 2 A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO SJD
Dmitry TITOV Assistant Secretary-General, Rule of Law and Security Institutions, UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), New York
Kevin O'KEEFE Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, US Department of State, Washington DC
Rory KEANE International Network on Conflict and Fragility (INCAF), Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD, Paris
1930 Drinks Reception followed by Dinner
2000 Dinner
WEDNESDAY 23 SEPTEMBER
0900-0930 3 INTRODUCTION TO THE CASE STUDIES: SJD ACROSS THE SPECTRUM OF FRAGILE AND CONFLICT AFFECTED ENVIRONMENTS
Peter WILSON Director, Libra Advisory Group, London
0930-1100 4 AFGHANISTAN: SJD DURING MILITARY INTERVENTION Moderator: Larry SAMPLER Vice President and Director, Communities in Transition Division, Creative Associates International, Washington DC
Peter GALBRAITH Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, Kabul
Sarah PECK Deputy Rule of Law Coordinator, US Embassy, Kabul
Ali JALALI Distinguished Professor, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University, Washington DC; and former Interior Minister, Kabul
1100-1130 Coffee
1130-1300 5 PAKISTAN: SJD DURING COUNTER-INSURGENCY Moderator: Larry SAMPLER Vice President and Director, Communities in Transition Division, Creative Associates International, Washington DC
Andrew RATHMELL Director, Libra Advisory Group; and former Strategy Project Director, Directorate of Strategy, Policy Planning and Analysis, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London
Fiaz TORU Additional Chief Secretary, Home and Tribal Affairs, Government of North West Frontier Province, Peshawar
1300-1500 Lunch
1500-1630 6 LIBERIA: SJD DURING PEACEKEEPING Moderator: Janine RAUCH Technical Advisor, External Accountability, DFID-DRC Security Sector Accountability and Police Reform Programme, Kinshasa
John BLANEY Former US Ambassador, Monrovia
Suraj Alao ABDURRAHMAN Chief of Staff, Armed Forces of Liberia, Ministry of National Defense, Monrovia
1630-1700 Tea
1700-1830 7 INDONESIA: LOCALLY DRIVEN SJD Moderator: Monica TANUHANDARU Programme Coordinator, Indonesian National Police Reform Program, International Organization for Migration, Jakarta
Santiago VILLAVECES Senior Advisor, International IDEA, Stockholm
Edy PRASETYONO Research Manager, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Indonesia
1930 Dinner
THURSDAY 24 SEPTEMBER
0900-1100 8 BREAK OUT GROUP DISCUSSION
RESOLVING LOCAL OWNERSHIP TRADE-OFFS AND DILEMMAS Which locals? Ownership of what? Following a local lead: building national strategic capacity. Security Sector Reform versus Security Sector Evolution. Moderator: Joëlle JENNY Head, Conflict, Security and Justice Group, Conflict, Humanitarian and Security Department (CHASE), Department for International Development, London
Rapporteur: Svetlana DJURDJEVIC-LUKIC Research Associate, Institute of International Politics and Economics, Belgrade
Boubacar N'DIAYE Associate Professor, The College of Wooster, Wooster
Gordon PEAKE Senior Policy Adviser, Timor-Leste Police Development Program, East Timor
BUILDING LOCAL SECURITY AND JUSTICE SECTOR CAPACITY Building security and justice responsiveness (including gender-responsiveness), institutional capacity, and oversight/accountability. Moderator: Bol GATKOUTH KOL Chair, Defence and Security Committee, Parliament of Southern Sudan, Juba Rapporteur: Aissatou FALL Research Associate, Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution Department, Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping Training Centre, Accra
Nikola RADOVANOVIC Ambassador of Bosnia-Herzegovina to NATO, Brussels
Piet BIESHEUVEL Director, Libra Advisory Group, London
INTEGRATING SECURITY AND JUSTICE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT How can both donor and host countries better align and integrate policy instruments and programme implementation for developing the security and justice sectors? Moderator: Robert PERITO Director, Center for Security Sector Governance, United States Institute of Peace, Washington DC Rapporteur: Eric SCHEYE Independent Consultant, Justice and Security Sector Development, New York
Yves-François PIERRE Consultant, Pétionville
Yasmine SHERIF Senior Adviser and Team Leader, Rule of Law, Justice and Security Team, UN Development Programme, Geneva
BUILDING DONOR CAPACITY AND ORGANISATIONAL COORDINATION What skill sets do donors need to bring to conflict environments in order to help build local capacity for SJD? How can they acquire these skill sets? How can donors better co-ordinate their SJD programmes? What role should multilateral agencies have? How can the role of the private sector be more effectively harnessed? Moderator: Marc van BELLINGHEN Deputy Head of Unit, Crisis Response and Peace Building, External Relations Directorate General, European Commission, Brussels
Rapporteur: Sharon WIHARTA Senior Researcher, Armed Conflict and Conflict Management Programme, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Stockholm
Elissa GOLBERG Director General, Stabilization and Reconstruction Task Force Secretariat (START), Ottawa
Ali JALALI Distinguished Professor, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University, Washington DC; and former Interior Minister, Kabul
1100-1130 Coffee
1130-1300 9 BREAK OUT GROUP PREPARATION OF 10 MINUTE REPORT BACK TO PLENARY
1300-1500 Lunch
1500-1630 10 BREAK OUT GROUP REPORT BACK AND DISCUSSION IN PLENARY
1630-1700 Tea
1700-1830 11 PLENARY DISCUSSION OF KEY CONFERENCE CONCLUSIONS Thomas JAYE Senior Research Fellow, Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), Accra
1900 Drinks sponsored by LIBRA
1930 Dinner
FRIDAY 25 SEPTEMBER
0915 Participants Depart