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Environment and security

Historisk arkiv

Publisert under: Regjeringen Bondevik II

Utgiver: Miljøverndepartementet

Environment and Security

Perspectives on the Role of Environment in Conflict and Peace-Building

Open seminar: 8 December 2004
Gamle Festsal (Domus Academica), Karl Johansgt. 47, Oslo

Chair: Eva Bratholm

09.00

Opening Address

  • Environment - Basis for Peace and Strategy for Development
    Norwegian Minister for the Environment, Knut Arild Hareide

09.10

Concepts of security

  • The Politics of Security-Definitions
    Ole Jacob Sending, Senior Research Fellow, NUPI

09.20

Environment and Conflict

  • The Case for a Green Peace Prize
    David B.Sandalow, Environment Scholar at The Brookings Institution, Washington D.C.
  • Are the Environment and Conflict Links Overrated?
    Astri Suhrke, Senior researcher, CMI
  • Early Warning and Post-Conflict-Perspectives in Peacebuilding
    Pekka Haavisto, Director of the UNEP Post-conflict-unit, Genève
  • Ecological Security
    Øystein Dahle, Chairman, World Watch Institute

10.30

Coffee/tea/snack

10.55

Climate and Security

  • How Well Can We Predict the Unpredictable Climate?
    Olav Orheim, Director of Norwegian Polar Institute

Commentaries:
Samantha Smith, Director, WWF
Erling Kvernevik, Head of Relief Management, Norwegian Red Cross

11.15

Resource Management for Peaceful Development

  • Good Governance of Resources
    Olav Kjørven, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Water and Security
    Hans Olav Ibrekk, Senior adviser, NORAD
  • Forests and Rights
    Lars Løvold, Director, Rainforest Foundation Norway

11.45

Panel Discussion

  • The Importance of Environment for Security
    David Sandalow, Astri Suhrke, Olav Orheim, Ole Jacob Sending, Mark Taylor (FAFO)

12:45

Closing Remarks

(Program subject to adjustments)