Friday 2 June
11:00 a.m. - 01:00 p.m.

This roundtable will show how peace can be built through reconciliation in a region seriously affected by armed conflicts.

Intervenants:
• Sister Marie-Bernard Alima Mbalula, Executive secretary of the Justice and Peace Commission (Democratic Republic of the Congo and Central Africa - Great Lakes)
• Mr. Ibrahima Fall, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Great Lakes Region (Senegal)
• Mr. Arnaud Gorgemans, director of the EurAC - Réseau européen pour l'Afrique Centrale (European Network for Central Africa) (Brussels, Belgium)
• Mr. Cornelio Sommaruga, International president of Initiatives of Change (Switzerland)
• Ms. Jacqueline Uwimana, UMUSEKE, partner of the CCFD (Rwanda)

Moderators:
• Michel Kipoké (Initiatives of Change) and Marie-Line Ramackers (French Coalition for the Decade / CCFD)

Friday 2 June
04:00 - 06:00 p.m.

Personalities internationally recognized for their engagement in promoting the culture of peace and non-violence will share their conceptions of this culture.

Intervenants:
• Mr. David Adams, Fundación Cultura de Paz
• Ms. Hildegard Goss-Mayr, Niwano Peace Prize Laureate, IFOR (Austria)
• Mr. Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, President of SERPAJ-AL (Argentina)
• Mr. Rajagopal, Vice-president of the Gandhi Peace Foundation (India)
• Mr. Jean Vanier, founder of the Arch Community (Canada / France)

Moderators:
• Christian Renoux, President of the French Coalition and of the International Coalition for the Decade / MIR (IFOR France) and Arielle Denis, editor of Planète Paix

Saturday 3 June
11:00 a.m. - 01:00 p.m.

This roundtable will highlight the engagement of women in promoting peace and non-violence, according to Security Council resolution 1325 on the place of women in the resolution of armed conflicts (2000).

Intervenants:
• Ms. Solange Koné, ASAPSU / REPROJECI, partner of the CCFD (Côte d'Ivoire)
• Ms. Isabelle Geuskens, Project manager of the Women Peacemakers Program of IFOR (Netherlands)
• Ms. Besa Hasani and Mr. Boban Mirkovic, Caritas Kosovo, partners of Secours catholique - Caritas France (Kosovo)
• Ms. Susi Snyder, Secretary-general of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - WILPF (United States)
• Ms. Stella Tamang, Bikalpa Gyan Kendra / IFOR, partner of Partage (Nepal)

Moderators:
• Geneviève Colas (French Coalition for the Decade / Secours catholique - Caritas France) and a journalist

Saturday 3 June
04:30 - 06:30 p.m.

In recent years, in several countries, non-violent movements contributed to the coming back of democracy. In others, civil societies are mobilize to resist oppression or to create conditions for sustainable peace.

Intervenants:
• Ms. Teresa Campos Chong, Center of Community Education of the High Provinces of Cusco - CECPA, partner of the Secours catholique - Caritas France (Peru)
• Mr. Ivan Marovic, Otpor, partner of ICNC (Serbia)
• Mr. Jean-Marie Muller, MAN / ICP Committee (France)
• Mr. Eleume Narciso Ramos, Association des Conseils Communautaires du Bas Atrato - ASCOBA (Columbia)
• Mr. Alessandro Rossi, European coordinator of Nonviolent Peaceforce (Italy) Moderators:
• Joseph Maïla, former chief education officer at the Institut catholique de Paris and Laurent d'Ersu, journalist at La Croix

Sunday 4 June
10:15 - 12:15 a.m.

One of the major challenges of the UN International Decade is the implementation in every country of education to peace and non-violence practices, in particular in educational institutions.

Intervenants:
• Mr. Nafez Assaily, Library on Wheels for Non-violence and Peace / IFOR, partner of the CCFD (Palestine)
• Mr. Fulgence Koné, Catholic International Education Office, CIEO/OIEC (Paris, France)
• Ms. Elisabeth Maheu-Vaillant, French Coalition for the Decade / IFMAN (France)
• Mr. Samuel Mawete, UNESCO chair of Brazzaville (Congo)
• Ms. Sigrid Niedermayer, International Coordinator of the UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network (Paris, France)

Moderators:
• Jean-Pierre Rougeot, General Delegate of Pax Christi France, and a journalist.

Sunday 4 June
01:15 - 03:15 p.m.

Globalization is a major challenge for societies on the different continents. How can non-violent thinking and practice contribute to the creation of a fairer world, more solidarity-driven and more respectful of the planet ?

Intervenants:
• Ms. Viviane Forrester, novelist and essayist (France)
• Mr. Jean-Baptiste de Foucauld, President of Solidarités Nouvelles face au Chômage (France)
• Mr. Sri Loganathan, ASSEFA, partner of Partage (India)
• Ms. Maria-Régine Rosine Poaty, Permanent Secretary of the Roman Catholic Justice and Peace Commission, partner of Secours catholique - Caritas France (Congo Brazzaville)

Moderators:
• Antoine Sondag, International chaplain of Pax Romana, and Vanessa Burggraf, presenter of TV5 television news

Sunday 4 June
03:45 - 05:45 p.m.

In the autumn of 2005 and the spring of 2006, French youth took to the streets to express their malaise and/or their desire for a different society. What place for non-violence in these dynamics ?

Intervenants:
• Mr. Yazid Kherfi, President of Pouvoir d'Agir
• Ms. Véronique Le Goaziou, sociologist
• Mr. André de Peretti, psychosociologist
• Mr. Charles Rojzman, psychotherapist and writer
• Mr. Jean-Pierre Rosenczveig, President of Défense des Enfants International - France
• A representative from Union Nationale Lycéenne

Moderators:
• Yvette Bailly (French Coalition for the Decade / MAN) and Gérard Dhôtel, chief editor of the Monde

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