Seventh Sustainable Development Conference
8-10 December, 2004, Holiday Inn, Islamabad

Troubled Times: Sustainable Development and Governance in the Age of Extremes

Panel List

SDC 2004 panel themes

Following is a list of tentative panels along with the names of panel organizers of the 7th Sustainable Development Conference. The program of the conference will be posted on the site as soon as it is finalized. For details about specific panel(s), please contact the panel organizer by clicking on his/her name given below.

1. Global Governance for Trade and Sustainable Development: An Agenda for the WTO
   Organizer: shaheen@sdpi.org, Shaheen Rafi Khan
   
   • Session 1: Regional Agreements
   • Session 2: Trade and Sustainable Development: A Southern Agenda
   • Session 3: The WTO Agreement on Agriculture
2. Resource Rights and their Governance Iimplications
   Organizer: shaheen@sdpi.org,Shaheen Rafi Khan


3. Violence, Displacement and the Issue of Identity-1947
   Organizer: salim@sdpi.org,Ahmad Saleem


4. Violence, Displacement and the Issue of Identity: Post Partition Pakistan
   Organizer: salim@sdpi.org,Ahmad Saleem


5. Women in Media: Problems and Prospects
   Organizer: salim@sdpi.org,Ahmad Saleem


6. Human Trafficking in South Asia
   Organizers: shahbaz@sdpi.org,Shahbaz Bokhari and saba@sdpi.org,Saba Gul Khattak


7. Gendered Violence in the Subcontinent
   Organizers: saba@sdpi.org,Saba Gul Khattak, kiran@sdpi.org ">Kiran Habib and kiranahmed@sdpi.org ">Kiran Nazir Ahmad


8. Exploring the South Asian Security Dimensions: Military, Economic and Human
   Organizer: moeed@sdpi.org,Moeed Yusuf


9. Gender in the Multilateral Trading System
   Organizer:  karin@sdpi.org ">Karin Astrid Siegmann
10. Sustainable Livelihoods in South Asia
    Organizers: karin@sdpi.org ">Karin Astrid Siegmann and qasim@sdpi.org,Qasim Shah
    • Session I: General Livelihoods
      Organizers: karin@sdpi.org ">Karin Astrid Siegmann and qasim@sdpi.org,Qasim Shah
    • Session II: Forestry and Livelihoods
      Organizers: qasim@sdpi.org,Qasim Shah and karin@sdpi.org ">Karin Astrid Siegmann
11. The Experience of Democracy in the Subcontinent
    Organizer: saba@sdpi.org,Saba Gul Khattak
12. Alternative Realities:The Voice and Role of Fiction Writers
    Organizer: kiranahmed@sdpi.org ">Kiran Nazir Ahmad
13. Pakistan's Energy Future: Is Nucleur Energy the Answer?
    Organizers: nayyar@sdpi.org,A. H. Nayyar and fahdali@sdpi.org,Fahad Ali
14. Health Care Finance and Delivery (panel 1 and 2)
    Organizer: s.shehzad@sdpi.org,Shafqat Shehzad
15. Governance Issues in Media
    Organizer: mbabbar@sdpi.org,Mohsin Babbar
16. Communal Harmony in South Asia: Success Stories
    Organizer: saleemshah@sdpi.org%20">Saleem Shah
17. Governmental Structural Adjustments for Better Governance towards Environmental Protection and Pollution Control in South Asia (panel 1 and 2)
    Organizer: khwaja@sdpi.org,Mahmood A. Khwaja
18. Food Security
    Organizer:qasim@sdpi.org,Qasim Shah
19. Farmers Rights to Livelihoods in the WTO Era
    Organizer: qasim@sdpi.org,Qasim Shah
20. Endangered Cultural Heritage
    Organizers: salim@sdpi.org,Ahmad Saleem and Saleem Shah, saleemshah@sdpi.org
21. Ideology, Politics and Education
    Organizers: salim@sdpi.org,Ahmad Saleem and Nayyar">A. H. Nayyar
22. Philanthropy and Law in South Asia
    Organizer: Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy ali.raza@pcp.org.pk
23. Afghan Refugees/Displaced Persons in Pakistan: A Sustainable Development Solution?
    Organizer: Saba Gul Khattak, saba@sdpi.org