High Level Events in Stockholm to close SIPRI's Anniversary Year
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HIGH LEVEL EVENTS IN STOCKHOLM TO CLOSE SIPRI'S 40th ANNIVERSARY YEAR
The Olof Palme and Anna Lindh Memorial Lecture by Jan Eliasson, Rosenbad, Stockholm, December 12, 2006
"I was a young member of the Swedish Foreign Service when SIPRI was created with Alva Myrdal as a driving force. I remember discussions with colleagues at the Ministry about the need for not only solid analysis but also for irrefutable facts to make the case for disarmament and non-proliferation. As the legendary President Paasikivi of Finland once stated: “The foundation for wisdom is facts”, SIPRI has through the years continued to lay such a foundation for fact-based dialogue and decisions in the area of security and disarmament. "
(Jan Eliasson)
Text of the lecture
Photographs of the event
The one-day high-level seminar on 'Global Challenges', Rosenbad, Stockholm, December 13, 2006
"When SIPRI was founded, in 1966, the Vietnam War and other wars
contributed to large parts of the world not being at peace even in the
basic sense of “peace” as “the absence of war.” ....
It was
against such a background of wars, conflicts, tension and insecurity
that SIPRI was founded to focus, not merely on peace between particular
states but internationally; and not merely on peace as some elusive
ideal state of affairs, but rather on peace research dealing with all
the factors that support or damage the prospects for peace; and above
all to provide a solid basis of trustworthy research on the world’s
military arsenals, arms expenditures, and conflicts."
(Sissela Bok)
Programme for the SIPRI 40th Anniversary Seminar ‘GLOBAL CHALLENGE AND RESPONSE, 2006’
Wednesday 13 December 2006 at the Rosenbad Conference Centre, Stockholm
| 9:00 | Words of welcome and introduction by Ambassador Rolf Ekéus, Chairman of the SIPRI Governing Board | |
| 9:20 | Statement on ‘The Meaning of Peace’ by Professor Sissela Bok, Harvard University | |
| -- Musical interlude: the Lucia choir -- | ||
| 9:45 | Presentation of the seminar and of the opening panel by Alyson JK Bailes, SIPRI Director | |
| 9:50 | Opening Panel on 'The institutional framework for tackling global challenges' | |
| Chair: Professor Adam Daniel Rotfeld Speakers: Sir Marrack Goulding, Deputy Chair, SIPRI Governing Board Pilvi-Sisko Vierros-Villeneuve, Director Political Affairs, Finnish EU Presidency Jinmi Adisa, African Union Secretariat | ||
| 11:00 | Short discussion | |
| 11:15 | Coffee break | |
| 11:45 | Parallel wokshops | |
| a) Conflict and Conflict Management Chair: Dr Peter Croll, Director BICC Speakers: Professor Peter Wallensteen, University of Uppsala Vidar Helgesen, Director, International IDEA Respondent: Dr Neil Melvin, SIPRI Rapporteur: Ola Mattsson, Secretary-General, Svenska Freds och Skiljedomsföreningen | ||
| b) Armament and Disarmament Chair: Dr Alexei Arbatov, Carnegie Endowment and IMEMO, Moscow Speakers: Ulf Hammarström, European Defence Agency Dr Patricia Lewis, Director, UNIDIR Respondent: Elisabeth Sköns, SIPRI Rapporteur: Dr Ian Anthony, SIPRI | ||
| c) Global Powers, Global Threats Chair: Alyson JK Bailes, Director SIPRI Speakers: Dr Tapani Vaahtoranta, Finnish Institute of International Affairs (UPI) Dr Tomas Ries, Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) Respondent: Dr Masako Ikegami, Director, Center for Pacific-Asia Studies, Stockholm University Rapporteur: Dr Charles Parker, Uppsala University | ||
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:15 | Final Plenary Session | |
| Chair: Alyson JK Bailes, Director SIPRI Reports by workshop rapporteurs | ||
| 14:45 | Panel of Swedish opinion-formers: Peace and peace research in a changing world: what needs, what possibilities? | |
| Ambassador Örjan Berner Carl Mossfeldt (Tällberg Forum) Ambassador Mats Bergquist, Swedish Academy of Sciences Göran Rosenberg | ||
| 15:30-16:30 | General discussion and Chair’s summing-up | |
| 16:30 | Farewell thoughts and thanks by Ambassador Rolf Ekéus | |
| 17:00 | Vin d’honneur at the Mediterranean Museum |
Presentation by Professor Sissela Bok of Harvard University on ''The Meaning of Peace'
Presentation by Professor Marrack Goulding of Oxford University on 'The Institutional Framework for Tackling Global Challenges'
Presentation by Elisabeth Sköns of SIPRI on 'Armaments and Disarmament'
Presentation by Professor Masako Ikegami of Stockholm University on Asia in Global Security - An Epicentre of New Instability -
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