Sixth Sustainable Development Conference 11-13 December, Holiday
Inn, Islamabad
Conference Programme
Day One l Day
Two l Day Three
Thursday, December11, 2003 Day one
Opening
Plenary 9:00 am – 11: am
Welcome
and Introduction
Dr. Saba Gul Khattak
Executive Director, SDPI, Pakistan
Opening
Address
Mr. Shamsul Mulk
Chairman, Board of Governors, SDPI, Pakistan
Inaugural
Address and Book Launch by the Chief Guest
Mr. Shaukat Aziz
| Thursday, December 11, 2003 Day One |
| Concurrent Session A-1 |
11:30 am – 1:15 pm |
| State, Violence and Migration |
|
| Chair |
Armin Hasemann, Director FES |
| Speaker |
Title |
| Chandrika Parmar (India) |
Indo Pak Partition: Community and Violence |
| Ahmad Salim (SDPI, Pakistan) |
Partition of India: The case of Sindh |
| Rukhsana Qamber (Pakistan) |
Displaced people and Permutations of Pakistani Identities |
| Imtiaz Ahmad (Bangladesh) |
Comments |
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Discussion |
| LUNCH |
1:15 pm – 2:00 pm |
| Concurrent Session B-1 |
11:30 am – 1:15 pm |
| Mass Media and the National Press |
|
| Chair |
Dr Mehdi Hassan, Pakistan |
| Speaker |
Title |
| Rehan Ansari (USA) |
Corporate Media and the Ethnic Press—the Case of the
Urdu Press in New York - post 9/11 |
| Ayesha Haroon (Pakistan) |
Media, Policy, Advocacy |
| Shafqat Munir (SDPI, Pakistan) |
Freedom of Information: The Right to Know |
| Mr Mukhtar Ahmad Ali (Pakistan) |
South Asian Civil Society Initiative on Freedom of Information |
| Shujauddin, APP (Pakistan) and Sameea Jamil, Kinnaird College
(Pakistan) |
Comments |
| |
Discussion |
| Lunch |
1:15 pm – 2:00 pm |
| Concurrent Session C-1 |
11:30 am – 1:15 pm |
| Governance and Decentralization/Devolution:
Democracy in South Asia |
|
| Chair |
Haroon Sharif, DFID, Islamabad |
| Speaker |
Title |
| Foqia Sadiq Khan (SDPI, Pakistan) |
A Benchmark Study on Law-and-Order and the Dispensation of
Justice in the Context of Power Devolution |
| Farrukh Moriani (Pakistan) |
Issues in Devolution: A Case Study of Sindh |
| Sajid Kazmi and Ali Rind (SDPI, Pakistan) |
Manchar Lake: Case Study |
| Arshad Bhatti, British Council, (Pakistan) |
Comments |
| |
Discussion |
| LUNCH |
1:15 pm – 2:00 pm |
| Concurrent Session A-2 |
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm |
| Education and Identity |
|
| Chair |
Dr Tariq Rahman, QAU, Islamabad |
| Speaker |
Title |
| Ahmad Salim (SDPI, Pakistan) |
1971: Historical Falsehoods in our Textbooks |
| Rubina Saigol (Pakistan) |
Between the Sacred and the Secular:History Teaching and Identity
Formation in India and Pakistan |
| Tahir Kamran (Pakistan) |
The Problematic of Identity in the Educational Discourse of
Pakistan: A Historical Perspective |
| Ajmal Kamal (Pakistan) |
Censorship in Pakistani Urdu Textbooks |
| Yamima Mitha (Pakistan) |
Comments |
| |
Discussion |
| TEA |
3:45 pm – 4:15 pm |
| Concurrent Session B-2 (Panel I) |
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm |
| IR/Relevance of Social Sciences in South Asia
|
|
| Chair |
Dr. Masuma Hasan, Member SDPI Board of Governors and Former
Cabinet Secretary, GoP |
| Speaker |
Title |
| Itty Abraham (USA) |
Policy Intellectuals and Public Intellectuals |
| Shaheen Sardar Ali (UK) |
Social Sciences and the Academe: The Achilles heel of postcolonial
societies? |
| Faisal Bari (Pakistan) |
Social Sciences Research and Education in Pakistan: Relevant/
Irrelevant |
| Dr Talat Mahmood (Germany) |
The Knowledge Production Function and R and D Spillovers |
| S. Akbar Zaidi, Economist |
Comments |
| TEA |
3:45 pm – 4:15 pm |
| Concurrent Session C-2 |
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm |
| Globalization and WTO: Post Ministerial Debriefing
Session |
|
| Chair |
Mr. Onder Yucer (Resident Representative UNDP) |
| Speaker |
Title |
| Ratnakar Adhikari (Nepal) |
Accession of LDCs to WTO: Nepal Experience |
| Pradeep Mehta (India) |
Singapore Issues: Way forward for Developing Countries |
| Tahir Hussain (Islamabad) |
Fair Trade after Cancun: Agriculture Remains the Test Case |
| Dr Abid Q. Suleri (SDPI, Pakistan) |
Implementation Issues: UR to Cancun |
| Qasim Niaz, Joint Secretary, WTO Wing, Ministry of Commerce,
(Pakistan) |
Comments |
| |
Discussion |
| TEA |
3:45 pm – 4:15 pm |
| Concurrent Session A-3 |
4:15 pm – 6:00 pm |
| Education and Medium of Instruction |
|
| Chair |
Ajmal Kamal, Writer and Editor |
| Speaker |
Title |
| Shahid Siddiqui (Pakistan) |
English as Medium of Instruction |
| Ali Ahmed Rind (SDPI, Pakistan) |
Sindhi as Medium of Instruction |
| Dr. Ahsan Wagah (Pakistan) |
Language Development in Pakistan – Forced Ignorance
of the Root Language |
| Wahid Baksh Buzdar |
Regional Languages and the Medium of Instruction |
| Shafqat Tanvir Mirza (Pakistan) |
Education as Medium of Instruction |
| Dr Sarfaraz Khan (Pakistan) |
Pashto as Medium of Instruction in NWFP: Facts and Politics |
| Yamima Mitha (Pakistan) |
Comments |
| |
Discussion |
| |
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| Concurrent Session B-3 (Panel II)
|
4:15 pm – 6:00 pm |
| IR/Relevance of Social Sciences in South Asia |
|
| Chair |
Dr Najma Najam, Vice Chancellor, FJWU, Rawalpindi |
| Speaker |
Title |
| Dr (Ms) Iftikhar Hasan (Pakistan) |
Research in Social Sciences Regarding Gender Equity –
Its Impact on Policy Making Bodies |
| Kelly Teamey (UK) |
Bridging the Ideal and the Real in Social Sciences: the case
for Applying Critical Discourse Analysis in examining Environmental
Education Practices in Development Context of Pakistan |
| Kelly Teamey, UK |
Social Sciences: Real or Ideal |
| Dr Nighat Saeed Khan (Pakistan) |
Physician Heal Thyself: Social Science and Humanity Academe
in Pakistan |
| S Akbar Zaidi (Economist) |
Comments |
| |
Discussion |
| |
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| Concurrent Session C-3 |
4:15 pm – 6:00 pm |
| Peace and Security in Nuclearized South Asia |
|
| Chair |
Karamat Ali, PILER, Karachi |
| Speaker |
Title |
| Haider Nizamani (Canada) |
People’s Perceptions of Nuclear Security |
| Pervez Hoodbhoy (QAU, Islamabad) |
Where is India-Pakistan Nuclear Race Heading? |
| Ayesha Siddiqa Agha (Pakistan) |
From Defense to Development |
| Itty Abraham (USA) |
Discussion |
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Two l Day Three
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