Sanctions on Iraq: background, consequences & strategies

Programme

Saturday 13th November
McCrum Lecture Theatre (Corpus Christi College)

10:15 - 10:50 Registration & Coffee
10:50 - 11:00 Welcome address
11:00 - 12:00 Background 1 : History
Ivor Lucas, former head of Middle East Department, Foreign & Commonwealth Office: "20 years of Saddam Hussein, 1979-1999"
George Joffé, Royal Institute of International Affairs: "How did we get here? A history of British & American relations with Iraq"
12:00 - 12:55 Consequences 1 : Health
Professor Richard Garfield, Columbia University: "Changes in health and well-being in Iraq during the 1990s - what do we know and how do we know it?"
12:55 - 13:30 Strategies 1 : Non-Governmental Organisations
Rita Bhatia & Andrea Ledward, Save the Children Fund: "NGO opportunities, options and constraints regarding Iraq"
13:30 - 14:45 Lunch
14:45 - 16:15 Consequences 2 : Social & Cultural
Harriet Griffin, Oxford University: "The Iraqi exodus"
Dr Nadje Al-Ali, University of Sussex: "Sanctions and women in Iraq"
Emad Salman, Iraqi Community Association: "Sanctions from an Iraqi perspective"
16:15 - 16:45 Tea/Coffee
16:45 - 17:30 Background 2 : Weapons of Mass Destruction
Professor Hugh McDonald, University of East Anglia
17:30 - 18:30 Background 3 : Depleted Uranium
Dr Doug Rokke, Jackonsville State University: "Depleted Uranium and its effects in Iraq"
   
20:30 Evening 'gathering' (venue to be confirmed)

 

Sunday 14th November
Winstanley Lecture Theatre (Trinity College)

9:30 - 10:15 Consequences 3 : Personal accounts
Felicity Arbuthnot, freelance journalist & Nikki van der Gaag, editor of New Internationalist magazine: "Experiencing Iraq today"
10:15 - 10:45 Strategies 2 : Anti-sanctions campaigning
Milan Rai, Voices in the Wilderness UK: "Popular anti-sanctions groups in the UK"
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee/Tea
11:15 - 12:45 Strategies 3 : International politics
Chris Doyle, Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding: "Sanctions & the Middle East"
Anthonius de Vries, Economic and Financial Sanctions Coordinator, European Commission: "EU sanctions policy: opportunities & limits"
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:15 Strategies 4 : The British & French Government positions
Dr Eric Herring, Bristol University: "Between Iraq and a Hard Place: a Critique of the British Government's Narrative on UN Economic Sanctions"
Jon Davies, Middle East Desk, Foreign & Commonwealth Office : "The British Government's policy towards Iraq & the current proposals to the United Nations Security Council"
Anis Nacrour, French Embassy in London : "The French proposals to the UN Security Council"
16:15 - 16:30 Closing comments
16:30 Tea/Coffee

 

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