10:15 - 10:50 | Registration & Coffee |
10:50 - 11:00 | Welcome address |
11:00 - 12:00 | Background 1 : History |
Ivor Lucas, former head of Middle East Department, Foreign & Commonwealth Office: "20 years of Saddam Hussein, 1979-1999" | |
George Joffé, Royal Institute of International Affairs: "How did we get here? A history of British & American relations with Iraq" | |
12:00 - 12:55 | Consequences 1 : Health |
Professor Richard Garfield, Columbia University: "Changes in health and well-being in Iraq during the 1990s - what do we know and how do we know it?" | |
12:55 - 13:30 | Strategies 1 : Non-Governmental Organisations |
Rita Bhatia & Andrea Ledward, Save the Children Fund: "NGO opportunities, options and constraints regarding Iraq" | |
13:30 - 14:45 | Lunch |
14:45 - 16:15 | Consequences 2 : Social & Cultural |
Harriet Griffin, Oxford University: "The Iraqi exodus" | |
Dr Nadje Al-Ali, University of Sussex: "Sanctions and women in Iraq" | |
Emad Salman, Iraqi Community Association: "Sanctions from an Iraqi perspective" | |
16:15 - 16:45 | Tea/Coffee |
16:45 - 17:30 | Background 2 : Weapons of Mass Destruction |
Professor Hugh McDonald, University of East Anglia | |
17:30 - 18:30 | Background 3 : Depleted Uranium |
Dr Doug Rokke, Jackonsville State University: "Depleted Uranium and its effects in Iraq" | |
20:30 | Evening 'gathering' (venue to be confirmed) |
9:30 - 10:15 | Consequences 3 : Personal accounts |
Felicity Arbuthnot, freelance journalist & Nikki van der Gaag, editor of New Internationalist magazine: "Experiencing Iraq today" | |
10:15 - 10:45 | Strategies 2 : Anti-sanctions campaigning |
Milan Rai, Voices in the Wilderness UK: "Popular anti-sanctions groups in the UK" | |
10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee/Tea |
11:15 - 12:45 | Strategies 3 : International politics |
Chris Doyle, Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding: "Sanctions & the Middle East" | |
Anthonius de Vries, Economic and Financial Sanctions Coordinator, European Commission: "EU sanctions policy: opportunities & limits" | |
12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch |
14:00 - 16:15 | Strategies 4 : The British & French Government positions |
Dr Eric Herring, Bristol University: "Between Iraq and a Hard Place: a Critique of the British Government's Narrative on UN Economic Sanctions" | |
Jon Davies, Middle East Desk, Foreign & Commonwealth Office : "The British Government's policy towards Iraq & the current proposals to the United Nations Security Council" | |
Anis Nacrour, French Embassy in London : "The French proposals to the UN Security Council" | |
16:15 - 16:30 | Closing comments |
16:30 | Tea/Coffee |