Australian High Commission
New Zealand
High Commission address: 72-76 Hobson Street, Thorndon, Wellington - Telephone: +64 (0)4 473 6411 - Fax: +64 (0)4 498 7135

The Australian High Commission in Wellington, New Zealand and the Pacific Cooperation Foundation (www.pcf.org.nz) are co-hosting a half-day seminar. 

Bougainville – Ten Years On
An Enduring Peace?


Guest Speakers

James Tanis, Former Vice-President Bougainville People’s Congress
Helen Hakena, Bougainville Women’s Representative

Seminar Topics

• Background to the Bougainville Peace Process/Agreement
• Truce Monitoring, Peace Monitoring and the Transition to the Autonomous Government of Bougainville
• Future challenges for Bougainville

The Guest Speakers will be joined by Panellists from Australia and New Zealand who have worked in Bougainville:

Thursday, 28th August 2008
Seminar - 1.00pm – 5.15pm
Followed by a reception & at 6pm the screening of Bougainville Sky.

Australian High Commission Chancery
72-76 Hobson Street Thorndon, Wellington


Registration

Please register by Thursday 22 August 2008 to the Australian High Commission phone (04) 498 7137 or email rsvp.ahcnz@dfat.gov.au


Program

1.00pm Welcome by Australian High Commissioner, HE Mr John Dauth, LVO and Mr  Vince McBride, Chief Executive of the Pacific Cooperation Foundation

1.10pm Session One – Overall process
(Subject: background to agreement, how achieved, challenges faced, lessons learnt & applicability elsewhere)


Chair: - Vince McBride, Chief Executive, Pacific Cooperation Foundation
Keynote Speaker: - John Hayes MP


Panel Discussion:
Helen Hakena, Bougainville Women’s Representative
James Tanis, Vice-President Bougainville People’s Congress
Anthony Regan, State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program (SSGM) and Department of Political and Social Change, ANU


2.00pm Questions from floor

2.30pm Coffee/tea break

3.00pm Session Two - Truce monitoring/Peace Monitoring/Transition to the Autonomous Government of Bougainville
(Subject: how truce monitoring & peace monitoring was undertaken – successes/failures, lessons learnt & applicability elsewhere)

Chair –Associate Professor Tagaloa Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop. Director, Pacific Studies, Victoria University of Wellington.

Keynote Speaker: - James Tanis, Vice-President Bougainville People’s Congress

Panel Discussion:

Helen Hakena, Bougainville Women’s Representative
Iain Campbell Smith, DFAT
Tony Annandale, Pacific Chiefs of Police Secretariat
Mark Ramsden, NZAID (in Arawa for the TMG to PMG handover 1998)
Colonel Tim Gall, NZDF Representative

3.45pm Questions from floor

4.15pm Session Three – Future Challenges
(Subject: how Bougainville is coping, economic development, mining, political status, referendum)
Chair – Tagaloa Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop

Keynote Speaker: - Helen Hakena
Panel Discussion:
James Tanis, Vice-President Bougainville People’s Congress
Anthony Regan, Fellow, State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program (SSGM) and Department of Political and Social Change, ANU
John Hayes, MP

4.45pm Questions from floor

5.15pm Wrap up and thanks

5.20pm Reception/drinks begin

6.00pm Screening of Bougainville Sky introduced by Iain Campbell Smith

7.30pm Function Ends



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