PROGRAM
March 27, Wednesday
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Reception at Hotel
March 28, Thursday
8:00 am
Registration
8:30 - 9:00 am
Opening Ceremony
Dean of LBJ School
Authorities
9:00 - 10:00
Chairperson: Max Sherman,Dean, LBJ School of Public
Affairs, University of Texas at Austin
Key Note Speaker: Henrique Brandão Cavalcanti, Chairman,
United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development
10:00 - 12:00 am
Panel A
Theme: "Causes of Conflict, Peace, and Sustainable Development"
Chairperson: Elspeth Rostow, Stiles Professor Emeritus In American Studies, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin
Dalmo A. Dalari, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Ronnie Lipschutz, University of
California
Paul Lovejoy, Center for Refugee Studies, York University, Canada
General Discussion
12:00 - 2:00 pm
Lunch
LBJ Library, 8th Floor
2:00 - 3:30 pm
Session B
Theme: "Sustainable Development: From Theory to Practice"
Chairperson: Walt W. Rostow, Rex G. Baker, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Political Economy, University of Texas at Austin
Featured Speaker: Lazlo Pinter, Internationall Sustainable Development Institute, Canada
Discussion
3:30 - 5:30 pm
Panel B
Theme: "Sustainable Development and Peace"
Chairperson: Antonio Benjamin, Visiting Professor of Law, University of Texas; Chair, Lawyers for a Green Planet, Brazil
Michael Conroy, Ford Foundation,
Mexico
Philip Howard, Peace and Conflict Studies Program, University of Toronto,
Nikhil Sinha, Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Toyin Falola, Department of History
Discussion
7:30 pm
Banquet
Hosted by Dean Max
Sherman
LBJ School
March 29, Friday
8:30 - 10:30 am
Session C
Theme: "Sustainable Development and Peace: Lessons from Selected Case Studies"
Chairperson: Richard W. Lariviere, Vice-President for International Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Featured Speaker: Ishrat Husain, Director, Poverty and Social Policy Department, World Bank
Discussion
Theme: "Sustainable Development and the Construction of Peace"
Session C
Featured Speaker: Andrew Steer, Director, Environment, World Bank
Discussion
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Panel C
Theme: "Policy Implications"
Chairperson: Malcolm Gillis, President, Rice University, Houston, Texas
Stahis S. Panagides, Esquel Group Foundation (NGO) Washington, DC, and Latin
America
Ray Marshall, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas
Sidney Weintraub,LBJ School of Public Affairs and
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC
Discussion
12:30 - 12:45
Wrap up: Summary and Conclusions
Antonio Magalhães , Tom Slick Professor of World Peace 1995-96, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin
12:45 pm
Closing Ceremony
Adjournment