09:30                     

Registration of all Delegates                    

Ante Room of Crystal Ballroom                      

Taj Samudra Hotel, Colombo

 

10:00                     

OPENING CEREMONY                           

Lighting of the Lamp                             

                                 

Plenary Chair:                          

Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha, PhD (Sri Lanka) 

President, Liberal Party

Welcome Addresses 

H.E. Dr. Surin Pitsuwan MP

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and

UN Commissioner for Human Security

Democrat Party (Thailand)

 

Dr. Wolf-Dieter Zumpfort

Vice Chairman

Friedrich Naumann Foundation (Germany)

 

H.E. Dr. Werner Hoyer MP      

President, European Liberal,             

Democratic and Reform Party (ELDR) 

Former State Minister, Foreign Office (Germany)

 

The Peace Process and Sustainable

Development in Sri Lanka

The Honourable Ranil Wickremesinghe

Prime Minister, Republic of Sri Lanka

 

11:15

Tea

11:30                     

PART I. INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL BACKGROUND

Economic Growth and Income Inequalities:An Empirical Regional Survey

Senator Sanaullah Baloch

Balochistan National Party

East and South East Asia

Prof. Medhi Krongkaew

Thammasat University

Director, Center for Poverty StudiesNational Institute of Development Administration (Thailand)               

                                                                             

South Asia

Prof. Bibek Debroy

Director, Rajiv Gandhi Institute

for Contemporary Studies (India)

Open Forum

13:00                     

Lunch - Co-hosted by the

Democratic Progressive Party (Taiwan)

Crystal Ballroom (Lower Floor)

Taj Samudra Hotel, Colombo

 

14:00

KEYNOTEADDRESS

 

Plenary Chair:                                                            

H.E. Sam Rainsy MP

President, Sam Rainsy Party and Leader of the Opposition (Cambodia) 

 

Development, Freedom

and Human Security                                                                   

H.E. Dr. Surin Pitsuwan MP

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and UN Commissioner for Human Security Democrat Party (Thailand)

14:30

Open Forum

 

16:00

Tea

 

16:15

Contending Paradigms of

Sustainable Development

Plenary Chair:

Senator Dató Dr. S. Vijayaratnam

Vice Chairman Parti Gerakan Rakyat (Malaysia) 

 

A Comparative Analysis of the Conservative, Socialist and Liberal Paradigms 

 

H.E. Dr. Werner Hoyer MP   

Former State Minister, Foreign Office (Germany) President, European Liberal, Democratic and Reform Party (ELDR)

Discussants:

 

Prof. W.D. Lakshman

Professor of Economics

University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)  

 

Dr. Anny Wong

Political Scientist

Center for Asia Pacific Policy

RAND (United States of America)

 

Dr. Gerhart Raichle

Former Executive Director

Liberal Institute

Friedrich Naumann Foundation (Germany)

17:45

Open Forum

 

19:15

End of Day One

 

19:30

Meet at the lobby of the hotel

 

19:45

Proceed to Hotel Galadari

 

20:00

Dinner hosted by The Honourable Deshabandhu Karu Jayasuriya

Minister of Power and Energy and Deputy Leader of the United National Party

(SriLanka)

 

22:00

Return to Taj Samudra