8:30-9:00 Registration

9:00-9:45 Welcome, opening remarks, and overview

• Welcome: Geoff Dabelko, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
• Opening remarks: John Cruden, Environmental Law Institute
• Opening remarks: Norio Yamamoto, Global Infrastructure Fund
Research Foundation Japan
• Overview: Carl Bruch, Environmental Law Institute

9:45-11:00 Panel 1: Lessons for development and security practitioners on the roles of natural resource management in conflict and peacebuilding
• Moderator: Carl Bruch, Environmental Law Institute
• David Catarious & Alison Lawlor Russell, Center for Naval Analyses
(CNA), "Counternarcotics efforts and Afghan poppy farmers: Finding the right approach"
• Mami Sato, University of Tokyo, "Demobilization, reintegration, and
natural resources in Afghanistan: Afghanistan's New Beginnings Programme"
• Geoff Dabelko, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
and Will Rogers, Center for a New American Security, "Military-military
engagement on environment and natural disasters: Lessons learned for post-conflict peacebuilding"
• Jon Unruh, McGill University, "The role of infrastructure (re)development in land-based resource access and use in
Afghanistan"

11:00- 11:15 Coffee break

11:15-12:30 Panel 2: Lessons for natural resource management professionals on conflict dynamics and power structures in post-conflict situations
• Moderator: Ilona Coyle, Environmental Law Institute
• Lisa Goldman & Sandra Nichols, Environmental Law Institute, "U.S.
bilateral assistance to Liberia: Forestry as the cornerstone to
Peacebuilding"
• Mikio Ishiwatari, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA),
"Redevelopment of inland water transport for post-conflict
reconstruction in Southern Sudan"
• Vladislav Michalcik, American University Washington College of
Law, "Natural resources, post-conflict reconstruction, and regional
integration: Lessons from the Marshall Plan and other reconstruction
efforts"

12:30-1:45 Lunch (provided)

1:45-3:00 Panel 3: Development challenges in post-conflict natural resource management programs: time frame, adaptability, monitoring and
evaluation
• Moderator: Carl Bruch, Environmental Law Institute
• Cynthia Brady and Oliver Agoncillo, U.S. Agency for International Development, "Improving natural resource governance and building peace and stability in Mindanao, Philippines"
• Mikiyasu Nakayama, University of Tokyo, "Post-project evaluation of
UNEP-IETC'S Iraqi Marshlands Project"
• Mikiko Sugiura, Columbia University, "Infrastructure and peacebuilding in Sri Lanka: Lessons from Japan's post-conflict support"
• Haruka Satoh, University of Tokyo, "Post-conflict restoration of agriculture in Timor-Leste"

3:00-3:15 Coffee break

3:15-4:30 Panel 4: Development challenges in post-conflict natural resource management programs: coordination, local engagement, institutional memory
• Moderator: Mikiyasu Nakayama, University of Tokyo
• Jennifer Wallace, University of Maryland and Ken Conca, American
University, "Peacebuilding through sustainable forest management
in Asia: The USAID Forest Conflict Initiative"
• Alex Fischer, Columbia University, "Designing environmental restoration programs in politically fragile states: Lessons from Haiti"
• Nao Shimoyachi-Yuzawa, Japan Institute of International Affairs, "Linking demining to post-conflict peacebuilding: A case study of Cambodia"
• Mikiyasu Nakayama, University of Tokyo, "Support by Australia,
European countries, and Japan to the Interim Mekong Committee during post-conflict periods in Laos and Vietnam"

4:30-5:00 Conclusion and way forward
• Mikiyasu Nakayama, University of Tokyo
• Carl Bruch, Environmental Law Institute