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Conference Day I: Tuesday, 24 June 2008
09:00 Uni-Mail R170	Registration
10:00	Workshops
Uni-Mail 1170	Planning for the Future and Managing Change in Research Institutes and Think-Tanks Organizer: Simon Maxwell, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), United Kingdom
Uni-Mail 1150	Governance and Nature Conservation: Between Participation and Coherence Organizer: Mark Hufty, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Switzerland
Uni-Mail 1140	Roundtable Issues in Megacities Organizers: Inter-regional Coordinating Committee of Development Associations (ICCDA); EADI Working Group on Urban Governance
12:30	Lunch Break
Uni-Mail R160	Euforic Business Meeting
14:00 Uni-Dufour	Opening Book Exhibition and Information Stands
14:30 Uni-Mail 1130	EADI Executive Committee Meeting (members only)
14:30	Workshops
Uni-Mail 1170	Planning for the Future and Managing Change in Research Institutes and Think-Tanks (cont'd) Organizer: Simon Maxwell, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), United Kingdom
Uni-Mail 1150	Governance and Nature Conservation: Between Participation and Coherence (cont'd) Organizer: Marc Hufty, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Switzerland
Uni-Mail 1160	Rethinking Poverty Reduction Strategies: The Role of Social Policy Organizer: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Switzerland
Uni-Dufour Auditorium Rouiller	Showcasing Knowledge and Information Services Organizer: EADI Working Group on Information Management and Euforic
15.30 Uni-Mail 1193	EADI Working Group Conveners Meeting
16.00 Uni-Mail R160	Inter-regional Coordinating Committee of Development Associations (ICCDA) Meeting
16.00 Uni-Dufour Foyer Auditorium Piaget	Registration (cont'd)
17.00 Uni-Dufour	Coffee Break
17.30 Uni-Dufour Auditorium Piaget	Dudley Seers Public Lecture "Earthland". The World is a Developing Country Tariq Banuri Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Sweden

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Conference Day II: Wednesday, 25 June 2008
08:30 Uni-Dufour Foyer Auditorium Piaget	Registration (cont'd)
09:00 Uni-Dufour Auditorium Piaget	Opening Session Juergen Wiemann (Chair) Vice-President, EADI Deputy Director, German Development Institute (DIE) Jean-Dominique Vassalli Rector, University of Geneva Juerg Streuli Ambassadeur, Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations Office and other International Organisations in Geneva Jacques Forster Vice-President, Board of the Foundation for International and Development Studies, Geneva Jean-Luc Maurer President, EADI
10:00 Uni-Dufour Auditorium Piaget	Plenary Session I Global Governance for Sustainable Development: The Challenge of Policy Coherence among International Organizations Desmond McNeill (Chair) Vice-President, EADI Centre for Development and the Environment, Oslo, Norway Kemal Derviş Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Bertrand Ramcharan Former Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights and Assistant Secretary-General to the UN Ngaire Woods Director, Global Economic Governance Programme, Oxford, UK
12:30	Lunch Break
Uni-Mail R160	EADI Directors Meeting (Lunch)
14:30 Uni-Mail R160	Workshop Planning for the Future and Managing Change in Research Institutes and Think-Tanks (Concluding Session) Organizer: Simon Maxwell, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), United Kingdom
14:00 Uni-Mail	EADI Working Groups Sessions
14:00 Uni-Mail 1130	Europe-Africa Policy Research Network Meeting (EARN members only)
16.00 Uni-Mail	Coffee Break
16:30 Uni-Mail	EADI Working Group Sessions
18.30 Uni-Dufour Auditorium Piaget	Public Lecture The Link between Sustainable Development and Migrations in Africa Ndioro Ndiaye Deputy Director General, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
19.30 Uni-Dufour Foyer Auditorium Piaget	Reception Co-sponsored by EADI, Canton of Geneva, Taylor & Francis Presentation of the EADI Prize Relaunch of the European Journal of Development Research (EJDR)

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Conference Day III: Thursday, 26 June 2008
09:00 Uni-Dufour Auditorium Piaget	Plenary Session II Can Economic Growth be Reconciled with Sustainable Development? On a Knife-edge between Climate Change and Millennium Development Goals Maja Bucar (Chair) Vice-President, EADI Center of International Relations, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Jean-Louis Arcand Center for Studies and Research on International Development (CERDI), France Nora Lustig George Washington University, USA Wolfgang Sachs Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Germany Oswaldo de Rivero Former Peruvian Ambassador to the UN and WTO
10:30 Uni-Dufour	Coffee Break
11:00 Uni-Dufour Auditorium Piaget	Plenary Session II (cont'd) Discussion
12:30 Uni-Dufour	Lunch Break EADI Elections
13:30 Uni-Mail R070	Book Lauch and Workshop: Globalization and Environmental Challenges. Reconceptualizing Security in the 21st Century.
14:00 Uni-Mail	EADI Working Group Session
Uni-Mail 2160	Roundtable Asymmetries in North-South Research Partnerships: Limits and Opportunities Organizers: Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt), The Netherlands; Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), Norway; Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Switzerland; Centre of African Studies (CAS), Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Uni-Dufour Auditorium Rouiller	Mini-Symposium Hard Talk: Interrogating Open Access Organizer: EADI Working Group on Information Management
16.30	Coffee Break
17:00 Uni-Dufour Auditorium Piaget	EADI General Assembly (registered members only)
19.00	Cultural Event (Swiss Evening)

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Conference Day IV: Friday, 27 June 2008
09:00	Parallel Sessions I
Uni-Mail S150	Multilevel Governance and Livelihood Strategies of Migrants Organizer: EADI Working Group on International Migration
Uni-Mail S160	Equity, Economics and Ecology: New Technologies, New Threats? Organizer: Department of Technology and Sustainable Development, University of Twente
Uni-Mail S130	Recognising Multiple Knowledges for Better Governance and Sustainable Development: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges Organizer: EADI IKM Project
Uni-Mail 1160	Global Governance, SADC and Liberation Movements as Governments in Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe Organizers: Dag Hammarskjoeld Foundation; Bologna University
Uni-Mail	EADI Working Group Sessions
10:30 Uni-Mail	Coffee Break
11:00	Parallel Sessions II
Uni-Mail S160	European Development Co-operation to 2020: Emerging Issues for Europe's Development Policymaking Organizer: EADI Secretariat, Germany
Uni-Mail S150	Migration and Development: Policy Coherence and Effective Partnerships Organizer: OECD Development Centre
Uni-Mail 1160	Global Governance and Sustainable Development in the Middle East Organizer: University of Southern Denmark
Uni-Mail 1170	Governing the Gift of Nature: The Links between Governance, Conflict and Natural Resources Organizer: Bonn International Center for Conversion
Uni-Mail 1150	EADI Working Group Sessions
12:30	Lunch Break
Uni-Mail R160	Meeting of the newly elected EADI Executive Committee
Uni-Mail S130	EADI Working Group Meeting WG 13 Transnational Corporations and Development (4)
13:00	Roundtable (Concluding Session)
Uni-Mail S150	Issues in Migration Organizer: Inter-regional Coordinating Committee of Development Associations (ICCDA); EADI Working Group on International Migration
13:30 Uni-Dufour Auditorium Rouiller	Book Launch and Presentation of the EADI Book Series
14:30 Uni-Dufour Auditorium Piaget	Plenary Session III Mobilizing Networks to Strengthen Global Governance: Research Communities, Civil Society and Business Communities Isa Baud (Chair) Vice-President, EADI Adjunct Director, Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt), The Netherlands Sangeeta Shashikant Third World Network (TWN) Bina Agarwal Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi, India Jonas Haertle Academic Initiatives, Global Compact Christoph Dunand Realise, Switzerland
16:30 Uni-Dufour Auditorium Piaget	Closing Speech EADI President
17.00 Uni-Dufour	Coffee Break
18:00 Unidufour Building	Public Lecture Biofuels and the Right to Food Jean Ziegler Consultative Committee of the Human Rights Council Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
19.30 Restaurant, IHEID	Dinner for Executive Committee Members and Organizers (by invitation only)

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Conference Day V: Saturday, 28 June 2008
09:00 Uni-Mail	Working Group Session V
12:30	End

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