Conference Agenda & Speakers

Helping Failed States Recover:
The Role of Business in Promoting Stability and Development

University of Kansas Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER)

Lawrence, Kansas
April 4-6, 2007

Agenda and Participants List

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Wednesday, April 4, 2007 (Adams Alumni Center)
6:30pm	Dinner & Keynote Speaker: Senator Nancy Kassebaum Baker, Member of the Board, International Crisis Group Introduction: Robert Hemenway, KU Chancellor http://merlin.cc.ku.edu:8080/ramgen/unionav/Ciber/NBaker.rm
Thursday, April 5, 2007 (Adams Alumni Center)
8:00-09:00am	*Registration*
9:00-09:10am	Opening Session Welcome & Opening Statement by Melissa Birch, KU CIBER Director & Conference Chair
9:10-11:10am	Session II: Driving Entrepreneurs and Firms Out of Business and Away: The Political Economy of Economic Decline, Poverty and Conflict Chair: Christopher W. Anderson, Associate Professor, KU School of Business Presentations: Cathy L. Daicoff, Managing Director, Credit Markets Services, Standard & Poor's, “Credit Risk and Post-Conflict Development.” http://www2.ku.edu/~kumedpro/Ciber/CDaicoff/f.htm Mitsuhiro Kagami, Ambassador of Japan to Nicaragua, “Nicaragua: The Sandinista Revolution and Post-Conflict Development—Key Issues.” http://www2.ku.edu/~kumedpro/Ciber/MKagami/f.htm Nelson Estrada Solórzano, President, Nicaraguan Entrepreneurial Group, Inc., “Nicaragua: Surviving with Conflict.” http://www2.ku.edu/~kumedpro/Ciber/NSolorzano/f.htm Panel Discussants: Dionisio Borda, Director, Economic Analysis Center, and former Minister of Finance, Paraguay Victor Davies, Center for Study of African Economies, Oxford University Jake W. Kipp, Deputy Director, School for Advanced Military Studies, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas http://merlin.cc.ku.edu:8080/ramgen/unionav/Ciber/panel2.rm Plenary Discussion
11:10-11:30am	*Coffee/Tea Break*
11:30-1:00pm	Session III: Corporate Social Responsibility, Conflict Sensitive Business Practices and Conflict Prevention Chair: Takao Shibata, KU Chancellor's Lecturer Presentations: Virginia Haufler, Associate Professor, Department of Government and Politics & Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland, “International Investment, Voluntary Regulation, and Post-Conflict Societies.” http://merlin.cc.ku.edu:8080/ramgen/unionav/Ciber/VHaufler.rm Canan Gunduz, Senior Program Officer, Peacebuilding Issues Program, International Alert, London, “Beyond ‘Post-Conflict Development’: A Peacebuilding Role for the Domestic Private Sector.” http://www2.ku.edu/~kumedpro/Ciber/CGunduz/f.htm Panel Discussants: Jennifer Brinkerhoff, Director, Center for the Study of Globalization and Associate Professor of Public Administration, International Affairs and International Business, George Washington University Rex Pingle, President PMD International Dennis Pruitt, Director, Montgomery County Action Council http://merlin.cc.ku.edu:8080/ramgen/unionav/Ciber/panel3.rm Plenary Discussion
1:00-2:15pm	Lunch & Keynote Speaker: Mary Eisenhower, President & CEO, People-to-People International (Adams Alumni Center) http://merlin.cc.ku.edu:8080/ramgen/unionav/Ciber/MEisenhouwer.rm
2:15-3:45pm	Session IV: Diasporas, Business and Post-Conflict Development Chair: Elizabeth Asiedu, Associate Professor, KU Department of Economics Presentations: Jennifer Brinkerhoff, Director, Center for the Study of Globalization and Associate Professor of Public Administration, International Affairs and International Business, George Washington University, "Diasporas and Post-Conflict Societies: Conflict Entrepreneurs, Another Competing Interest, or a Contributor to Stability and Development?" http://www2.ku.edu/~kumedpro/Ciber/JBrinkerhoff/f.htm Liesl A. Riddle, Assistant Professor of International Business and International Affairs, George Washington University, "Cultivating, Capturing, and Facilitating Diaspora Capital." http://www2.ku.edu/~kumedpro/Ciber/LRiddle/f.htm Panel Discussants: Patrick Hayford, Director, Office of the Special Representative on Africa, United Nations Nelson Estrada Solórzano, President, Nicaraguan Entrepreneurial Group, Inc. Emizet Kisangani, Director, Africa Studies Center, & Associate Professor of Political Science, Kansas State University http://merlin.cc.ku.edu:8080/ramgen/unionav/Ciber/panel4.rm Plenary Discussion
3:45-4:00pm	*Coffee/Tea Break*
4:00-6:00pm	Session V: Doing Business in Post-Conflict Countries—Key Opportunities and Challenges (Creating a Business-Friendly Environment) Chair: Lynn Ground, KU CIBER Advisory Council & Country Manager/Principal Economist, World Bank (ret.) Presentations: Emizet Kisangani, Director, Africa Studies Center, & Associate Professor of Political Science, Kansas State University, "Foreign Direct Investments in Infrastructure: Post-Civil War Reconstruction in Africa." http://merlin.cc.ku.edu:8080/ramgen/unionav/Ciber/EKisangani.rm Leo Maraboli, Principal Mining Sector Specialist, Global Mining Group, World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (Ret.), “Policy Framework for Successful Sustainable Mining Development in Post Conflict Countries: Opportunities and Challenges.” http://www2.ku.edu/~kumedpro/Ciber/LMaraboli/f.htm Rex Pingle, President, PMD International, “Doing Business in Post Conflict Countries: Foreign Private Investment.” http://www2.ku.edu/~kumedpro/Ciber/RPingle/f.htm Panel Discussants: Wade Channell, Senior Trade and Commercial Law Advisor, Economic Growth Office, Trade and Investment Team, USAID Geoff Demarest, Senior Analyst, Foreign Military Studies Office, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Liesl A. Riddle, Assistant Professor of International Business and International Affairs, George Washington University http://merlin.cc.ku.edu:8080/ramgen/unionav/Ciber/Panel5.rm Plenary Discussion
6:00-7:30pm	*Reception* (Adams Center)
Friday, April 6, 2007 (Adams Alumni Center)
9:00-11:00am	Session VI: Case Studies in Doing Business in Post-Conflict Countries 1 Chair: Michael H. Hoeflich, Professor, KU School of Law Presentations: Wade Channell, Senior Trade and Commercial Law Advisor, Economic Growth Office, Trade and Investment Team, USAID, "Urgency and Legitimacy: Tensions in Rebuilding the Legal Infrastructure for Business in Post Conflict Societies." http://merlin.cc.ku.edu:8080/ramgen/unionav/Ciber/WChannell.rm Victor Davies, Center for Study of African Economies, Oxford University, “State Failure and Business in Sierra Leone.” http://www2.ku.edu/~kumedpro/Ciber/VDavies/f.htm Leon Trammell, President & CEO, TRAMCO, Inc., Wichita, “How A Small Company Exports to Fifty-Two Countries Worldwide.” Panel Discussants: Brigadier General (Ret.) Dr. W. Christopher King, Dean of Academics, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Garth Myers, Director, African Studies Center & Assistant Professor, Department of Geography Catherine Weaver, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Kansas http://merlin.cc.ku.edu:8080/ramgen/unionav/Ciber/Panel6.rm Plenary Discussion
11:00-11:30am	*Coffee/Tea Break*
11:30-12:00pm	Session VII: Closing Session Chair's Closing Summary: Melissa Birch, KU CIBER Director and Associate Professor, School of Business & Jean Choplin, Business Consultant, France http://merlin.cc.ku.edu:8080/ramgen/unionav/Ciber/panel7.rm Plenary Discussion
1:30-5:00pm	Optional Activities (e.g., Booth Family Hall of Athletics, Dole Institute of Politics, Spencer Museum of Arts)

Lynn Ground, Advisory Board, KU CIBER, March 2007

Conference Secretariat
The conference secretariat is coordinated by Ms. Suzanne Scales: ; phone: 785-864-3125.

Further Information
For information on conference content or other questions, please contact our conference organizer: Lynn Ground ; phone: 785-856-3243).

1 Topics that may be covered in this session include: (i) country studies on business in post-conflict development; (ii) conflict impact assessment and business risk management; (iii) post-conflict reconstruction and business; (iv) post-conflict development—business experience by sector (e.g., mining, telecoms, engineering, etc.); (v) investment strategies in post-conflict economies; (vi) property rights, regulation and/or taxation of business in post-conflict countries; (vii) business-NGO cooperation in conflict affected countries; (viii) the UN Global Compact and business in insecure states.