First day: Academia, Policy Makers & the Civil Society: what is their role in conflict resolution?

1)      9h30 – 10h00: Pierre Mathiot  - opening remarks on behalf of the hosting institution 

2)      10h00 – 10h15: Regional political representative

3)      10h15 – 11h00: Elise Féron (INFOCON research director)  – introducing The International Civil Society Forum on Conflicts  

11h00 -11h30: coffee break 

4)      11h30 – 12h15: Neil Campbell – International Crisis Group – Conflict resolution and transnational communities: what can we do from abroad? 

12h15 -14h00: lunch break

(INFOCON internal meeting from 13h15 until 14h00) 

5)      14h00 – 15h50: First workshop - The Balkan conflicts and civil society actors: A project for a common future – Gentian Zyberi (Coordinating Council of Albanians in the Netherlands) and Aleksandar Mitic (journalist) – chaired by Prof. Hugh Miall 

Coffee break 15h50-16h10

6)      16h10 – 18h00: Second workshop - The different dimensions of conflict in the African Great Lakes region –Marusca Perazzi (Minority Rights Group) and Christiaan de Beule (SOS Rwanda-Burundi). Chaired by the Internationalist Foundation.

Conference reception cocktail: 18h30 – 19h30 

Second day: What has been done?

1)      9h30 – 10h15: Marco Martiniello (Université de Liège) - how conflicts in countries of origin are imported into the countries of settlement

2)      10h15 – 10h45: Agnieszka Weinar (University of Warsaw): Defining diaspora and its role as a political actor

3)       10h45 – 11h15: Angela Liberatore (research project’s officer at the European Commission) – Lessons from EC funded research on conflict and migration

 11h15 – 11h30: coffee break 

4)      11h30 – 12h15: Hugh Miall (Kent University) – Contemporary Conflict Resolution & the INFOCON endeavour

12h15 -13h45: lunch break

1)      13h45 – 14h30: Ruerd Ruben and Marieke van Houte (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) – the Randstad case

2)      14h30 – 16h15: Third Workshop: NAVEND, Zentrum für Türkeistudien and Jochen Hippler (Universiteit Duisburg Essen) - Intercultural Dialogues: Turkish and Kurdish in actual Germany – a melting pot?

Coffee Break: 16h15 – 16h30

3)      16h30 – 17h30: New Technologies & Conflict Resolution: “Exchanging knowledge on communities on the move” – Thomas Blumenfeld (Internationalist Foundation) and Andrea Warnecke (BICC – from the DIASPEACE project funded under FP7) about the Here and There internet platform and the place for new technologies in community based research  

4)      17h30 – 18h00: Résumé - Pierre Mathiot, Benoît Rihoux, Elise Féron, Angela Liberatore, CSO representative, local government representative.