This week, LIDS is excited to present our annual Fall Symposium, focused on Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Rebuilding from Emergency to Development!
Date: Friday, October 31, 2014
Time: 12:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Location: Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East BC
Evening Reception at 4:30 pm at the Hark South Dining Room
On Friday, October 31st, experts, practitioners, and academics working on issues of development and reconstruction in post-conflict countries will convene at Harvard Law School to discuss strategies to best promote growth, stability, and long-term development in countries arising from violent conflict. In light of recent conflicts in countries such as Syria and Iraq, and keeping in mind the long – and in many cases, still ongoing – efforts to rebuild and develop in countries such as Afghanistan, Rwanda, and Cambodia, it is a particularly critical inquiry. Countries arising from conflict have often had basic infrastructure and institutions destroyed, poor prospects for economic growth, and face lack of security and rule of law. The Symposium’s speakers will highlight barriers that countries from Rwanda to Afghanistan have faced in the process of transition, as well as the best practices employed in moving forward — including in promoting economic growth and development, institutionalizing the rule of law, and implementing justice and security sector reform.
Our Keynote Speaker will be Dr. Donald Kaberuka, current President of the African Development Bank. Dr. Kaberuka is currently serving his second five-year term as President of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB). A national of Rwanda, he was the country’s Minister of Finance and Economic Planning between 1997 and 2005. During this period, he oversaw Rwanda’s successful economic reconstruction after the end of the civil war there. In Rwanda, he initiated and implemented major economic reforms and introduced new systems of structural, monetary and fiscal governance, laying special emphasis on the independence of Rwanda’s central bank. These reforms led to the widely-recognized revival of Rwanda’s economy, and to the sustained economic growth that enabled Rwanda to obtain debt cancellation under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative in April 2005.
Other notable panelists hail from the UN, World Bank, USAID, The Asia Foundation, the ABA Rule of Law Initiative, and Namati. These speakers will be part of two panels, first on Driving Economic Growth and Building Institutions After Conflict, and second, Developing Stability and Security: Post-Conflict Security Sector and Justice Reform.
The two panels will be followed by an evening reception with speakers in the Hark South Dining Room.
Please register to let us know you’re coming! http://bit.ly/1qE6Dlq (RSVP not required, but helpful)
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