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

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