ACADEMIC FORUM OF THE SUMMITS OF THE AMERICAS. THE NEW SECURITY EQUATION IN THE AMERICAS

May 25-26, 2007
Québec, Canada

Programa

Panel 1: The threat to security in the Americas: What has changed?
Friday 9h00-12h00

- Speaker 1: The main strategic issues (Ruth Diamint – Universidad Torcuato Di Tella)
- Speaker 2: Inter-state conflicts (David Mares – University of California in San Diego)
- Speaker 3: Drug traffic and violence issues in the Andes (Marc Chernick, Georgetown University)
- Speaker 4: Trans-national criminality (Christopher Hernández-Roy – Departamento de Seguridad Pública, OAS)
- Speaker 5: Violence issues in the Caribbean (Clifford Griffin – North Carolina State University)

Panel 2: The collective institutional responses to security threat in the Hemisphere
Friday 13h30-15h30

- Speaker 1: The regional integration process and security maintenance, a historical perspective (Bruce Bagley - University of Miami)
- Speaker2: The new framework for inter-American cooperation on security (Margaret Daly Hayes – EBRINC)
- Speaker 3: The OAS-UN cooperation in the Americas since the end of the Cold War (Cristina Eguizabal – Ford Foundation)
- Speaker 4: The Rio Group and the South American Union as tools for regional security (Arie Kacowicz - Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Panel 3: Other actors and the future of the security framework
Friday 16h00-18h00

- Speaker 1: A new role for the military? (Deborah Norden – Whittier College)
- Speaker 2: How concerned is the business sector? (José Duran – CEPAL)
- Speaker 3: A role for civil society in the regional organization of security? (Mercedes Botto - FLACSO Argentina)
- Speaker 4: What security arrangements in the Americas for the future? (Speaker to be confirmed)

Panel 4: The particular context of North American security
Saturday 9h00-12h00

- Speaker 1: The various manifestations of the security threat to North America in the current decade (Mark Salter – University of Ottawa)
- Speaker 2: The case of the Mexico-US border (Jorge Chabat – CIDE)
- Speaker 3: Is Canada a threat to US security? (Dwight Mason – CSIS)
- Speaker 4: How North American trade was affected since 9/11? (Stephen Blank - Arizona State University)
- Speaker 5: How people's mobility was affected since 9/11? (Jason Ackleson - New Mexico State University)

Panel 5: How efficient is a security perimeter?
Saturday 14h00-17h00

- Speaker 1: The security perimeter 5 years after 9/11: where are we with trilateral cooperation? (Stéphane Roussel – UQAM)
- Speaker 2: Agreements for an intelligent frontier (Veronica Kitchen – University of British Colombia)
- Speaker 3: Mexico-US cooperation on security after 9/11 (Monica Serrano – Colegio de Mexico)
- Speaker 4: Canada-US cooperation on security after 9/11 (Joel Sokolsky, Collège militaire du Canada)
- Speaker 5: The Future of North American Security Cooperation (Christopher Rudolph, American University)

Closing of the Colloquium
Saturday 17h00