Attendance at this conference is by invitation only. * denotes speaker to be confirmed. Carnegie Corporation of New York

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1 Provisional programme Power after peace: the political economy of postconflict statebuilding - what policy implications? Thursday 17 Saturday 19 February 2011 WP1080 Sponsors Carnegie Corporation of New York What is the impact of international statebuilding efforts on the political economy of war-torn states, including on the relationships between formal and informal economic and political structures in these countries? To explore this question, the conference will focus on four related themes, and their implications for policy: How do statebuilding approaches of various international actors differ, and how do these different approaches affect political and economic institutions and dynamics in post-conflict countries? Why, and under what conditions, have statebuilding policies fuelled or re-ignited violence? How best to engage informal structures to prevent de-stabilising the post-conflict environment yet without entrenching unjust political structures? To what extent are war-time, or pre-war, elites recycled or consolidated, and how does this affect the sustainability of institutionbuilding efforts? The conference aims to examine the findings of a two-year international research project on these issues with practitioners and policy analysts from post-conflict countries as well as statebuilding actors to better inform future policy-making by the international community. Attendance at this conference is by invitation only. * denotes speaker to be confirmed

2 Thursday 17 February Participants arrive Buffet lunch available Welcome and Introduction Isobelle Jaques Programme Director, Wilton Park The political economy of post-conflict peacebuilding: what are the major challenges? Introduction to some of the issues in the policy paper resulting from the research project, which brings together the key themes of the project. Mats Berdal Professor of Security and Development, Department of War Studies, King s College London Raymond Gilpin Associate Vice President, Sustainable Economics, United States Institute of Peace, Washington DC Conference photograph followed by tea/coffee The diversity of statebuilding approaches: what visions of the state? 1930 Drinks Examination of the different models of the state that underlie the statebuilding efforts of different international actors, and their implications for the political economy of post-conflict states. It explores which state functions and related institutions different statebuilding actors prioritise, possible reasons for this, and how this affects the provision and character of key state functions. Chair: Dominik Zaum, Reader in International Relations, University of Reading, School of Politics and International Relations, Reading Susan Woodward Professor of Political Science, The Graduate Centre of The City University of New York Indigenous approaches to state building without external intervention Ricardo Soares de Oliveira Lecturer, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford 2000 Dinner Dinner speaker: John K Shinkaiye Chief of Staff, Bureau of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Addis Ababa 2200 Coffee in the Common Room

3 Friday 18 February 0800 Breakfast Competing statebuilding approaches: implications for local institutions and political dynamics Tea/Coffee Following from the discussion on the impact of different statebuilding approaches on institutions and political and economic dynamics in post-conflict countries, analysis of the dynamics between different statebuilding actors who are engaged in the same statebuilding context: whose agendas are most influential and why? How do local actors interact with them, and which actors benefit most from divisions/competition between them? What happens if different actors have different favourites amongst local elites? Are there advantages of strategic unimportance? Chair: Robert Muggah, Research Director/Project Coordinator, Small Arms Survey, SSRC Fellow (Oxford), Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva Alan Doss Former Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in Liberia Perspectives from Kosovo Engjellushe Morina Executive Director, Kosovar Stability Initiative, Pristina Dealing with informal structures: case studies Examination of the approaches that statebuilding actors have used to deal with informal structures, focussing on strategies of co-option on the one hand, and confrontation on the other. What consequences do these approaches have for stability and development in the countries concerned? Chair: Michael Pugh, Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Bradford, Department of Peace Studies, Bradford Afghanistan Antonio Giustozzi Research Fellow, Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London Haiti Lunch Carlos dos Santos Cruz Lieutenant General; Commander 2nd Division, Brazillian Army, Sao Paulo

4 The functions of informal structures in post-conflict environments Tea/coffee Examination of the roles (both positive and negative) that informal actors play in postconflict environments. How do statebuilding operations often (unwittingly) contribute to the strengthening of informal structures that compete with state institutions for political authority? What are the consequences of the continued salience of such informal structures for the political economy? Chair: Christine Cheng, Bennett Boskey Fellow in Politics and International Relations, Exeter College, University of Oxford, Oxford Ken Menkhaus Associate Professor of Political Science, Davidson College, North Carolina Perspectives from Afghanistan Aziz Hakimi Former Director, Future Generations, Kabul; doctoral student, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Statebuilding and renewed violence 1930 Drinks 2000 Dinner Examination of the different ways in which statebuilding efforts might fuel resurgence in violence in post-conflict countries. Why could strengthened state capacity become a source of conflict, and how this could be mitigated? Chair: Richard Caplan, Director, Centre for International Studies, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, Manor Road, Oxford Perspectives from Sudan Peter Woodward Retired Professor, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Reading Perspectives from Georgia Ghia Nodia Former Georgian Minister of Education (2008); Chair, Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development, The Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development, Georgia 2200 Coffee in the Common Room Saturday 19 February 0800 Breakfast Statebuilding and the recycling of elites Examination of the statebuilding policies that contribute to the entrenchment and recycling of pre-war and war-time elites, and their implications for security and development. In which institutions is the recycling of elites particularly prevalent, and why? What are the consequences of this? What are the alternatives to the co-optation of elites, and strategies for mitigating the negative consequences of it? Chair: Benjamin Reilly, Senior Visiting Professor, Southeast Asia Studies, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC

5 Tea/coffee Perspectives from Iraq Toby Dodge Reader, International Politics, Queen Mary, University of London, London Dealing with informal structures: case studies Perspectives from Afghanistan and Kosovo Whit Mason Research Program Manager, Asia Pacific Civil-Military Centre of Excellence, Sydney The impact of international statebuilding efforts on the relationships between formal and informal economic and political structures in postconflict environments: what are the principal policy recommendations? 1300 Lunch Identifying lessons from the discussions, followed by closing comments. Iain King Governance Adviser, UK Government Stabilisation Unit, London Gwinyayi Dzinesa Senior Researcher, Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town Closing comments 1415 Participants depart Dominik Zaum Lecturer in International Relations, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Reading, Reading Enquiries about participation in this conference to: Ms Sandry Koo Conference Administration Wilton Park, Wiston House, Steyning, West Sussex BN44 3DZ, United Kingdom T: +44 (0) F: +44 (0) E: Programme enquiries to Isobelle Jaques. Updated previews are available on