{"id":2725,"date":"2014-10-27T19:40:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T23:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www3.law.harvard.edu\/orgs\/lids\/?p=2725"},"modified":"2014-10-27T19:42:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T23:42:24","slug":"this-week-lids-fall-symposium-1031","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orgs.law.harvard.edu\/lids\/2014\/10\/27\/this-week-lids-fall-symposium-1031\/","title":{"rendered":"This week: LIDS Fall Symposium, 10\/31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, LIDS is excited to present our annual\u00a0<strong>Fall Symposium,\u00a0<\/strong>focused on\u00a0<strong>Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Rebuilding from Emergency to Development<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong>\u00a0Friday, October 31, 2014<br \/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong>\u00a012:00 p.m. to 4:30\u00a0p.m.<br \/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein\u00a0East BC<br \/>\nEvening Reception at 4:30 pm at the Hark South Dining Room<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/orgs.law.harvard.edu\/lids\/2014-symposium\/\">Read more here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>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 \u2013 and in many cases, still ongoing \u2013 efforts to rebuild and develop in countries such as Afghanistan, Rwanda, and Cambodia, it is a particularly critical inquiry.\u00a0Countries 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. \u00a0The Symposium&#8217;s speakers will highlight\u00a0barriers that countries from Rwanda to Afghanistan have faced in the process of transition, as well as the best practices employed in moving forward &#8212; including in promoting economic growth and development, institutionalizing the rule of law, and implementing justice and security sector reform.<\/p>\n<p>Our Keynote Speaker will be Dr.\u00a0<strong>Donald Kaberuka,\u00a0<\/strong>current President of the African Development Bank.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>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\u2019s Minister of Finance and Economic Planning between 1997 and 2005. During this period, he oversaw Rwanda\u2019s 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\u2019s central bank. These reforms led to the widely-recognized revival of Rwanda\u2019s economy, and to the sustained economic growth that enabled Rwanda to obtain debt cancellation under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative in April 2005.<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0<em>Driving Economic Growth and Building Institutions After Conflict<\/em>, and second,\u00a0<em>Developing Stability and Security: Post-Conflict Security Sector and Justice Reform.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The two panels will be followed by an evening reception with speakers in the Hark South Dining Room.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please register<\/strong>\u00a0to let us know you&#8217;re coming!\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1qE6Dlq\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1qE6Dlq<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0(RSVP not required, but helpful)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, LIDS is excited to present our annual\u00a0Fall Symposium,\u00a0focused on\u00a0Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Rebuilding from Emergency to Development! 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