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Children and Armed Conflict Event

November 8, 2002
Labouisse Hall, UNICEF, 3 UN Plaza, New York
AGENDA

Organized by the Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, in cooperation with the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers and the Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, UNICEF, and the OSRSG on Children and Armed Conflict. Supported by the Human Security Network.

9:15-9:45am

• Opening:
  • SRSG on Children and Armed Conflict, Olara Otunnu
  • Permanent Representative of Austria to the UN, Ambassador Dr. Gerhard Pfanzelter
  • Director of Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, Claude Bruderlein

9:45-11:15am

• Panel One-Engaging the Security Council on Children and Armed Conflict: Resolution 1379
  • Moderator: Claude Bruderlein, Director, HPCR
  • Haakon Gram-Johannessen, First Secretary, Security Council Affairs, Permanent Mission of Norway to the United Nations
  • Margaret Novicki, Chief of Outreach, Representative from OSRSG
  • Casey Kelso, Coordinator for the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, Representative of the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
  • Mary Diaz, Executive Director, Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, Representative from Watchlist

11:15-11:45am

• Coffee Break

11:45-1:00pm

• Panel Two--Human Security strategies related to the 1379 Resolution, one example in focus. The rights and special needs of girls affected by armed conflict: Are they accounted for?
  • Moderator: Theo Sowa, Researcher
  • Angelina Acheng Atyam, Co-Founder Concerned Parents Organization, Uganda
  • Fatmata Binta Barrie and Abibatu Samba, adolescent researchers from Sierra Leone, affiliated with the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
  • Rachel Brett, Quaker UN Office
  • Angela Raven-Roberts, Tufts University
  • Ambassador Jerry Corr, Deputy Permanent Representative, Security Council, Permanent Mission of Ireland to the United Nations

1:00-2:30pm

• Lunch at UNICEF

2:00-2:30pm

• Lunchtime Presentation on Youth-to-Youth Networking and New Use of Technology by Eric Hoskins, President, War Child Canada, and Krista Riley, Youth Advocate and Member of War Child Canada's Youth Advisory Board

2:30-4:30pm

• Roundtable: "An Action Plan for Promoting the Security of War Affected Children"
  • Moderator: Iain Levine, UNICEF
  • Randolph Carter, Liberian youth representative
  • Kathy Vandergrift, Senior Policy Analyst, World Vision Canada; Representative from the Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict
  • Rory Mungoven, Global Advocacy Director, Human Rights Watch; Representative from the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
  • Marie Smyth, Chief Executive and founder director of the Institute for Conflict Research in Northern Ireland; Currently Senior Fellow, Jennings Randolph Program at United States Institute of Peace
  • Ambassador Dr. Georg Mautner-Markhof, Director for Human Rights, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Austria