On Tuesday, November 28, 2017, the Atlantic Council organizes a discussion “Ukraine’s Internally Displaced Persons Hold a Key to Peace Agenda”.
The event will take place in UCMC press center (2, Kreschatyk st. (Ukrainian House, 2nd floor).
Agenda
1:00 – 1:05 p.m. Welcoming Remarks
Ambassador John Herbst, Director, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council
Mr. Alexander Hug, Principal Deputy Chief Monitor, Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (Via video)
1:05 – 1:15 p.m. Keynote Address
Mr. Neal Walker, Resident Coordinator, United Nations; Resident Representative in Ukraine, United Nations Development Programme
1:15 – 2:30 p.m. Panel 1: The Official Response to the IDP Crisis
Georgiy Tuka, Deputy Minister of Temporarily Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons, Government of Ukraine
Ambassador John Herbst, Director, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council
Ms. Melinda Haring, Editor, UkraineAlert, Atlantic Council
Dr. Lauren Van Metre, Professor, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University
Moderated by: Mr. Maxim Eristavi, Research Fellow, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council; Co-Founder, Hromadske International
2:30 – 2:45 p.m. Coffee Break
2:45 – 4:00 p.m. Panel 2: A View from the Ground
The Hon. Marie Yovanovitch, US Ambassador to Ukraine, United States Embassy in Kyiv
Mr. Jock Mendoza-Wilson, Director of International and Investor Relations, System Capital Management
Dr. Yuri Temirov, Dean of the History Department, Donetsk National University
Dr. Kateryna Smagliy, Director, Kennan Institute, Kyiv Office
Ms. Tamila Tasheva, Founder, Crimea SOS
Moderated by: Mr. Peter Dickinson, Research Fellow, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council; Publisher, Business Ukraine and Lviv Today
4:00 p.m. Concluding Remarks
Mr. Alain Aeschlimann, Head of Delegation, International Committee of the Red Cross in Ukraine
