Annexes
Programme
Monday, 18 May
13:30 Welcome and Introductions
Sven Mollekleiv, Secretary General, Norwegian Red Cross, Norway
Jan Egeland*, Special Advisor, Norwegian Red Cross and Director, Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers, Norway
Yves Sandoz*, Director of International
Law and Policy, ICRC, Geneva
(* co-chairs of the meeting)
Self-introduction of participants
14:15 Session I
The Human Costs of Unrestrained Arms Transfers and Responses to Date
Dr David Meddings, Epidemiologist,
Medical Division, ICRC, Geneva
Health effects of weapons - issues and ICRC experience
Jakkie Potgieter, Senior Field
Researcher, Arms Management Programme,Institute for Security Studies, South Africa
Case study: southern Africa
Group discussion
15:45 Coffee Break
16:15 Session I - Continued
Tara Kartha, Researcher,
Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses, India
Case study: India - Pakistan - Afghanistan
Ibrahim Ag Youssouf, Advisor, United
Nations Development Programme, Mali
Case study: Mali
Virginia Gamba, Head, Arms Management Programme, Institute for Security Studies, South Africa
Case study: sub-regional efforts in Central and South America
Group discussion
17:45 Session II - Controlling Arms Availability at the International Level
Cecilia Jaber, Advisor of the
Vice-Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mexico
The OAS Convention against the illicit manufacturing and trafficking in firearms,
ammunition, explosives and other related materials
Ed Laurance, Deputy Director, Monterey
Institute of International Studies, USA
Controlling the availability and unlawful use of arms at the international level: the
United Nations and civil society
Group discussion
Tuesday, 19 May
09:00 Session III - Developing a humanitarian law approach to the problem of arms availability
Peter Herby, Coordinator of the
Mines-Arms Unit, ICRC, Geneva
Group discussion - general themes and lessons learned from human rights and development
perspectives
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Session IV - Discussion of potential national actions and policies
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Session V - Discussion of potential regional actions & policies
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Session VI - Discussion of potential international actions & policy
Wednesday, 20 May
09:00 Session VII - Discussion of summary and conclusions of the meeting
11:00 Public closing session
Jan Egeland, Special Advisor, Norwegian Red Cross and Director, Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers, Norway
Yves Sandoz, Director of International Law and Policy, ICRC, Geneva
11:30 Press conference and interviews with selected participants
Participants list
Academic experts
1. Maj. General (ret.) Dipankar Banerjee, Co-Director, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi, India
2. Alejandro Bendaña, President, Centro de Estudios Internacionales, Managua, Nicaragua
3. Virginia Gamba, Head, Arms Management Programme, Institute for Security Studies, South Africa
4. Tara Kartha, Researcher, Institute for Defense Studies and Analysis, New Delhi, India
5. Ed Laurance, Deputy Director, Monterey Institute of International Studies, USA Formerly Secretary to UN Expert Panel on Small Arms
6. Peter Lock, European Association for Research on Transformation, Hamburg, Germany
7. Josephine Odera, Coordinator, Light
Weapons Project, International Resource Group
(Horn of Africa), Nairobi, Kenya
8. Jakkie Potgieter, Senior Field Researcher, Arms Management Programme, Institute for Security Studies, South Africa
9. Dan Smith, Director, Peace Research Institute-Oslo (PRIO), Oslo, Norway
10. Henrik Thune, Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, Oslo, Norway
Governmental experts
11. Dominique Bakker, Security Policy Department, Arms Control and Arms Export Policy Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, The Netherlands
12. Rick De Caris, First Legal Officer, South African Police Service, Pretoria, South Africa
13. Ambassadress Helga Hernes, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oslo, Norway
14. Cecilia Jaber, Advisor to the Vice-Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mexico
15. Joerg Koehler, Global Arms Control and Disarmament, Federal Department of Defence, Bern, Switzerland
16. Annelie Malmström, Division for International Law and Human Rights, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Stockholm, Sweden
International Organizations
17. Ibrahim Ag Youssouf, Advisor to the United Nations Development Programme, Bamako, Mali
18. David Biggs, Political Affairs Officer, United Nations Department for Disarmament Affairs, New York, USA
19. Arjun Katoch, Humanitarian Affairs Officer, Complex Emergency Response, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Geneva, Switzerland
20. Per Egil Wam, Social Scientist, Post-Conflict Unit, World Bank, Washington DC, USA
NGOs
21. Paul Eavis, Director, Saferworld, London, United Kingdom
22. Joost Hilterman, Director, Human Rights Watch Arms Project, Washington DC, USA
23. Lora Lumpe, Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers (NISAT), Arms Trade Monitoring Project, Federation of American Scientists, Washington DC, USA
24. Dan Plesch, Director, British American Security Information Council, Washington DC, USA
25. Stein Villumstad, Norwegian Church Aid, Oslo, Norway
26. Carlos Walker, Program Officer, Arias Foundation, San Jose, Costa Rica
27. Brian Wood, Campaign Coordinator, Amnesty International, London, United Kingdom
ICRC and National Red Cross Societies
28. Magne Barth, Head of the International Division, Norwegian Red Cross
29. Jan Egeland, Senior Advisor, Norwegian Red Cross Director of Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers (NISAT)
30. Peter Herby, Coordinator of the Mines-Arms Unit, Legal Division, ICRC
31. Michael Hoffman, International Services, American Red Cross, representing the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
32. Stéphane Kolanowski, Attaché at the Legal Division, ICRC
33. Terje Lund, European Red Cross Legal Support Group, and Norwegian Red Cross
34. Dr David Meddings, Epidemiologist, Medical Division, ICRC
35. Sven Mollekleiv, Secretary General, Norwegian Red Cross
36. Yves Sandoz, Director of International Law and Policy, ICRC
Conference secretariat
37. Rod Miller, Conference Rapporteur, Language Division, ICRC
38. Ole-Petter Sunde, Norwegian Red Cross, Coordinator of NISAT & General Secretary of the Conference
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