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Mekong perspectives conference

Australian Mekong Research Network (AMRN)
Australian National University & Monash Asia Institute

Monday 22 February - Mekong Countries: After the Crisis?

8.30 Registration

9.15

Professor John Richards, Acting Vice-Chancellor, ANU
Introductory Remarks

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Dr Peter McCawley, Deputy Director-General, AusAID, 'Long-term challenges and prospects in Mekong Countries'

10.00 Morning Tea

10.30

Prema-chandra Athukorala and Chris Manning, 'The Greater Mekong Subregion: An Economic Profile.'
Michael Skully, 'Banking and Financial Institutions in the Mekong Region.'
Kelvin Rowley, 'Political Change in the Mekong Region.'

12.00 LUNCH

1.30

Desmond Ball, 'Security Developments and Prospects for Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region, with particular reference to the Mekong River Basin.'
H.E. Dr Mok Mareth, 'Cambodia after the Elections'
E.C. Chapman and Ian Wilson, 'Laos: Coping with the Crisis'

3.00 AFTERNOON TEA

3.30 Research Notes and Topical Discussion

Participants are invited to contribute individual presentations of 5-10
minutes, with discussion to follow.

Peter Warr, 'Thailand Beyond the Crisis? The Role of Agriculture.'
John McKay, 'Overview: A Perspective on the Mekong Region'

EVENING: CONFERENCE DINNER

Tuesday 23 February - Current Issues

9.00 SUBREGIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Bob Stensholt, 'Mekong Cooperation: Stopped or Merely Stalled?'
Wang Mingyi, 'The Role of China in the Mekong Region' (tbc)
Janne Jokinen, 'The Lancang-Mekong River as a Link between Yunnan and Laos'

10.30 Morning Tea

11.00 THE HUMAN DIMENSION

Phil Hirsch, 'Who Controls the Mekong Development Agenda?'
Elizabeth St George, 'Investment in Human Resource Development in a Socialist Country. Contradictions in Vietnam's 1998 Education Law.'
Helen Jarvis and Nereida Cross, 'The Cambodian Genocide Program : Australian Cambodian and U.S. cooperation in research and documentation.'

12.30 Lunch

1.30 NGOS AND MEKONG DEVELOPMENT

Janet Hunt, 'NGO Perspectives on the Mekong Countries'

2.00

Le Huu Ti, 'Water Resources Development in the Mekong Countries' (t.b.c.)
Helen Ross and Tony Jakeman, 'Adapting Integrated Catchment Management Procedures for the Southeast Asian Region'

3.00 Afternoon Tea

3.30

Michelle Scoccimarro, Andrew Walker, Claude Dietrich, Sergei Schreider and Rebecca Letcher, 'A Resource Management Framework for Evaluating Water and Landuse Options in Rural Thailand Catchments.
Jonathan Chenoweth, Data and Information Exchange in the Mekong River Basin: Cooperation assisting Development'

4.15 Research Notes and Topical Discussion

Participants are invited to contribute individual presentations of 5-10
minutes with discussion to follow.

5.00 CLOSING THE CONFERENCE