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How to Reach Compromise

A workshop series on international crisis and conflict management

Workshop: National Unity Governments – Pathway to peace?

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9.30 h Welcome Note

  • Dr. Wolfgang Maier, Deputy Head of Department for European and International Cooperation Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
10.00 h How to Form a National Unity Government: Challenges to Reach Compromise in Afghanistan, Iraq and Myanmar

Challenges in Afghanistan

  • John Dempsey, Senior Adviser to the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, United States Department of State
Challenges in Iraq

  • Ilkka Uusiltalo, Senior Adviser Crisis Management Initiative (CMI), Former Ambassador and Head of the European Commission Delegation to Iraq
Challenges in Myanmar

  • Dr. Thant Myint-U, Adviser to the President of Myanmar
Chair: Dr. Stefan Friedrich,Head of Team Political Dialogue and Analysis Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

12.00 h Lunch Break

13.00 h Making National Unity Governments Work: Challenges, Pitfalls, and How to Overcome Them. Lessons from South Africa, Lebanon and Bosnia Herzegowina

Lessons from South Africa

  • H.E. Reverend Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile, Ambassador South African Embassy to Germany
Lessons from Lebanon

  • Salim Sayegh, Former Minister for Social Affairs Kataeb Party
Lessons from Bosnia Herzegowina

  • Amna Popovac, Political Activist
Chair: Dr. Kristina Eichhorst, Coordinator Crisis and Conflict Management, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

15.00 h Coffee Break

15.30 h The-winner-takes-it-all: Unity vs. Stability? Lessons from Ruanda, Cote d’Ivoire and Sri Lanka

Lessons from Ruanda

  • Professor Peter Molt, University of Trier
Lessons from Cote d’Ivoire

  • Gaston Ouassenan Koné, President of the Parliamentary Group PDCI-RDA, Vice President PDCI-RDA
Lessons from Sri Lanka

  • Dr Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, Executive Director, Centre for Policy Alternatives
Chair: Andrea Ostheimer, Head of Team Subsahara Africa, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

17.30 h Conclusion

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Venue

Academy of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation
Tiergartenstr. 35,
10785 Berlin
Deutschland

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Speakers

  • John Dempsey
    • Ilkka Uusiltalo
    • Dr. Thant Myint-U
    • H.E. Reverend Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile
    • Salim Sayegh

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Dr. Kristina Eichhorst

Political Dialogue and Analysis

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