Conference Schedule

9.00 Registration and Coffee

Opening address

10.00 Micheál Martin, TD

Background / Context / Lives and Livelihoods in Western Sahara

10.20 Nadia Bernaz, Dept. Law, Middlesex University, UK.
10.40 Alice Wilson, PhD student, Dept. Social Anthropology, Cambridge.
11.00 Simon Coveney, TD.
11.20 Hayetna Deidi, Saharawi Photographer, and Mirjam Hirzel, International Development Student, UCC, Life in the camps
11.40 Questions and discussion
Tea / coffee

Resources - Environment

12.00 Jim Loughran, Frontline Defenders, Occupied Territories of Western Sahara
12.20 Tara Shine, Environmental Scientist and TV Presenter.
12.40 Willem Van Cotthem, University of Ghent, Dryland Agricultural Advisor.
13.00 Questions and discussion
Lunch

Global Activism for Western Sahara – US experiences

14.00 Video Conference Link: Senia Bachir Abderahman, International Activist and Speaker on Western Sahara.
14.20 Questions and discussion

Global Activism for Western Sahara – European experiences

14.40 Preview screening of Behind the Desert Wall, produced and directed by Mark McLoughlin
15.00 Video Conference Link to refugee camps, Tindoof, Mark McLoughlin, Film-maker interviews Women’s Union Representatives and Malainin Lakhal, Saharawi Journalists and Writers Union
15.20 Questions and discussion

The Costs of Conflict

15.40 Adam Komorowski, MAG, The work of MAG in conflict-affected Africa
16.00 Michael D. Higgins, TD.
16.20 Speakers Panel and Feedback Session
17.00 Close of Conference