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Center
for Balkan Development
2 CLOCK TOWER PLACE #510
MAYNARD, MA 07154
Tel: 978-461-0909
Fax: 978-461-2552
info@balkandevelopment.org
www.balkandevelopment.org |
| 
Saturday, October 16
Program and speaker list subject to change.
| 8:15
am |
Registration Begins
Higgins Atrium |
| 9:00 am |
Opening Remarks
Higgins 300
Glenn Ruga, Director,
Center for Balkan Development
Joseph Quinn, Dean
of the College of Arts and Sciences, Boston College |
| 9:15 am–10:00
am |
Keynote Address
Higgins 300
Ambassador
Donald Hays, Principal Deputy High Representative,
Office of the High Representative
Lessons Learned from the Balkan Conflicts
Ambassador Hays is a US diplomat who took up his duties
with the OHR in July 2001. Previously he was the US Representative
to the United Nations for UN Management and Reform. He
has served in the State Department as the Director of
the Office of Management Policy and Planning and as the
Executive Director of the European Affairs Bureau. He
has also been posted to US embassies in Bonn, Islamabad,
Dakar, Freetown (Sierra Leone), and Saigon. |
| 10:15 am–11:45
am |
UN Security Council
Resolution 1244 and Final Status for Kosovo
Higgins 300
Sponsored by the Dayton Peace Accords Project,
Tufts University
Moderated by Bruce Hitchner,
Chairman, Dayton Peace Accords Project
Ilir Dugolli, Principal
Political Advisor to the Prime Minister of Kosovo
Gordon D. Thompson,
Executive Director, Institute for Resource and Security
Studies
Morton Abramowitz, Senior
Fellow, The Century Foundation; Former Assistant Secretary
of State for Intelligence and Research; Former Ambassador
to Turkey
Jim Hooper, Managing
Director of the Public International Law & Policy
Group; Former Director of the Washington office of the
International Crisis Group
Video: Back to Bosnia by Sabina Vajraca
Higgins 225
Click for more information |
| 11:45 am–1:15
pm |
Luncheon
Buffet
Heights Room, Lower Dining
Commons
Cosponsored by Kokkalis Program on Southeastern &
East-Central Europe, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University
Book Signings
Heights
Room, Lower Dining Commons
Sheri Fink, MD, author
of War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival
Jasmina Cesic,
author of The River Runs Salt, Runs Sweet: A Memoir
of Visegrad, Bosnia
Ron
Cobb, author of Memories of Bosnia:
The 35th Division's SFOR 13 NATO Peacekeeping Mission
Roundtable discussion
on UNSCR 1244 begins at 12:30
Heights
Room, Lower Dining Commons
Exhibits
are open for viewing in Babst Library and Social Work
Library. Click for more information. |
| 1:30 pm–3:00
pm |
Justice and International
Law
Higgins 300
Moderated
by Paul Williams, Public
International Law and Policy Group
Tom Parker, International Security Studies,
Yale University
Judith Armatta,
Liaison in The Hague, Coalition for International Justice
Natasa Kandic, Humanitarian
Law Center, Belgrade
Video: Crucible of War: A Journey Back to the
Balkans
by Leon Gerskovic
Higgins 225
Click for more information |
| 3:15
pm–4:45 pm |
Reconstruction: Case
Studies
Higgins 300
Amir Pasic, Architect
and Program Coordinator of the Mostar 2004 project since
1994. Recipient of 2004 Stari Most Award.
Christopher F. Bragdon, Director of Bosnia
Projects, Center for Balkan Development
Ronald Cobb, Ret.
Colonel, US Army, SFOR
Lahira Sejfija,
Director of IPAK, Tuzla-based NGO
Sasha Toperich,
Presidential Envoy of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the
United States
Edin Sabanovic,
Executive Manager, Bosmal, Sarajevo
|
| 5:00
pm–6:30 pm |
Reception, open to all
conference attendees
Babst Art Library
Sponsored by Boston College Center
for International Partnerships and Programs
Aftermath, Bosnia's Long
Road to Peace. Photography Exhibition
by Sara Terry
Click for more information
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| 7:00
pm–10:30 pm |
Stari Most Awards Banquet
Heights Room, Lower Dining Commons
Click for more information |
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