SARAJEVO MEETING

UNMiBH

6-9 July 2002

 

 

6 JULY

 

18:00       EARLY BIRD RECEPTION - United Nations Mission in Bosnia & Hercegovina

 

20:00       TEAM LEADER CONFERENCE

 

 

7 JULY

 

9:00         OPENING REMARKS

 

9:30         RESEARCH TEAM MEETINGS

Team Leaders will convene closed, concurrent meetings of their individual research teams to draft a working research agenda.  This will involve (1) drafting an overall outline of topics and themes that need to be addressed (and, by inference, issues that will not fall within the team’s scope), (2) discussing both secondary and primary source material gathered to date, (3) identifying additional requisite materials for a comprehensive and balanced judgment, including: a) government and NGO documents, b) interviews with key actors -- especially individuals no longer in government service, c) additional, original research that will have to be commissioned (to be funded by stipends).

 

11:30        LUNCH (teams requiring additional deliberation/preparation may sit together)

 

13:00        PLENARY SESSIONS:

All project participants meet in closed session to receive the research agendas presented by each of the ten pairs of research team leaders present for discussion, criticism, and possible revision (at the discretion of the individual research teams)

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13:00 #2: The Dissolution of Yugoslavia

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15:00 #1: The Fate of the Kosovo Serbs

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15:30 #3: Independence & the Fate of Minorities

18:00         DINNER

 

20:00         RECEPTION - Joint Presidency of Bosnia & Hercegovina

 

Members of the Scholars' Initiative meet with

President Beriz Belkic

 

 

 

8 JULY

 

9:00          PLENARY SESSIONS:

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9:00 #4: Ethnic Cleansing

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10:30 #5: International Community

12:00        LUNCH

 

13:30        PLENARY SESSIONS:

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13:30 #6: Safe Havens

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15:00 #7: Operations Flash/Storm

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16:30 #8: Milošević’s Kosovo

18:00         DINNER

 

 

9 JULY

 

9:00         PLENARY SESSIONS:

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9:00 #9:  US/NATO Intervention

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10:30 #10: ICTY

12:00        LUNCH

 

14:00        CONFERENCE RECAP

 

15:00        ADVISORY BOARD MEETING (2 hours)

A closed meeting of the project director and associate director with the four-person Advisory Board (to be selected beforehand by and from among the twenty research team leaders).  Although the Board will be free to discuss any outstanding issues, its primary focus will be on establishing procedures for advising the project directors and participants, and for mediating any disputes that arise during the course of the project.

16:00        HISTORIC CITY TOUR

 

 

 

CONFERENCE SPONSORS

United States Institute for Peace

Soros Foundation – Belgrade & Prishtina

Citizens’ Pact for Southeastern Europe

Purdue University