9.40    Introductory Remarks by Aldo Ajello (former EUSR for the Great Lakes Region)

10.00 SESSION 1: Prospects for regional integration in Central Africa
CHAIR : Amb. Guy Trouveroy (Head Sub-Saharan Africa Department – FPS
Foreign Affairs)

Panel 1. Politics of integration in Central Africa
Competing Regionalisms in Central Africa (SADC, CEEAC, COMESA, EAC):
Pr. Jacques Ténier (Professor – Sciences Po Rennes)

What role for the RECs in the security debate?: Andebrhan Giorgis (Senior
Adviser – Crisis Group)

DEBATE

Panel 2. The CEPGL – what for?
A state of play: Gabriel Toyi (Executive Secretary – CEPGL)

What are the conditions to succeed?: Jozef Smets (Special Envoy for the Great
Lakes Region – Belgian FPS Foreign Affairs)

DEBATE

12.30 Standing Lunch

13.30 SESSION 2: Peace & Resources: towards a regional approach
CHAIR: Théodore Trefon (Director – CRE-AC)

Panel 1. Promoting security in Central Africa
Regional dimension of the Congolese conflicts: Pr. Koen Vlassenroot (Director
Africa Programme – EGMONT, Professor – Ghent University)

Case-study Kahemba : Managing cross-border challenges: Pr. Filip De Boeck
(Professor – K.U. Leuven)

Mechanisms of security cooperation in the region (Tripartite + 1 and other
initiatives): Dr. Richard Sezibera (Special Envoy of Rwanda’s President for the
Great Lakes Region)

International Conference on the Great Lakes Region: How to keep the momentum to bring peace to the region?: Pr. Jacques Djoli Eseng’Ekeli (Congolese Senator and Professor at Kinshasa University)

DEBATE

15.00 Coffee Break

Panel 2. Management of resources
Mineral Resources in Central Africa: Pr. Johan Lavreau (Head of Geology &
Mineralogy Department – Africa Museum)

Natural Resources and trans-border economic flows in the Great Lakes: Dominic
Johnson (Pole Institute – Goma)

Hydro-energy as a locomotive for regional cooperation: Paul Frix (Independent
Consultant)

Towards a structured framework for peaceful cooperation?: Pr. Jan Gorus
(Director – Brussels Center for African Studies)

DEBATE

16.30 SESSION 3: Policy options for the region and the international community
CHAIR : Pierre-Pol Vincke (Central Africa Counselor – Strategic Cell – FPS
Development Cooperation)

Amb. Liberata Mulamula (Executive Secretary – International Conference on the
Great Lakes Region)

Dr. Angela Meyer (Advisory Board – Organization for International Dialogue and
Conflict Management, Vienna)

DEBATE

17.15 Concluding Remarks by Sabine Laruelle (Minister for Development Cooperation of Belgium)