International Catholic Movement for Intellectual and Cultural Affairs
 Pax Romana (ICMICA/MIIC)

 

         International Congress on

 

            Global Governance, Global Justice:

          Africa as a Symbol and a Reality

Draft agenda

 

Catholic University of East Africa (CUEA) - Nairobi , Kenya : 20 to 22 July 2008

 

DAY 1: 20 July 2008

11:00 am –4:00 pm

         Arrival and Registration of ICMICA Delegations Members

5:00 pm- 7:00 pm

 

Opening mass by the Chairman of Kenya Episcopal Conference

His Eminence John Cardinal Njue, Archbishop of Nairobi

7:00pm –9:00 pm

 

Welcoming Diner and Cultural Activities

 

 

DAY 2: 21 July 2008

9 :00 am                    

         OPENING SESSION OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS

Chair: Jean LOKENGA, International President of Pax Romana ICMICA/MIIC

9:00 am – 10:30 am

Exhibits Open

Welcoming  Address  by:

 

Ombati Augustin, President of Pax Romana ICMICA/MIIC, Kenya

Paul Ortega, Secretary General of Pax Romana ICMICA

A - Keynote Addresses on

 

Global Governance and Sustainable Development : Challenges and Opportunities

 Global Justice: a challenge for global Institutions and Nation-States

 Towards a  Better World Order : the role of Churches

 

10:30 am – 11:00 am

Morning break

11:00 am – 1:00 pm

B - PLENARY SESSION – Panel

Chair: Pax Romana ICMICA USA

 

Panel of 4 speakers

Global governance and global justice:

Challenges and Vision for a Better World Order

 

Open Discussion - Debate

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Lunch Break

2:30 pm –4:00 pm

C - SIMULTANEOUS  WORKSHOPS

 

Workshop A: Achieving Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): Challenges of eradicating poverty and fighting against Malaria & HIV/AIDS in Developing countries

 

Workshop B: Role of local governance in promoting development

 

Workshop C: Poverty eradication in the Global South: shared challenges 

 

Workshop D: Commitment of Christian laity in the achievement of MDGs

4:00 pm- 4:30 pm

Afternoon Break

4:30 pm – 6:30 pm

D - PLENARY SESSION - Panel

 

Panel of 4 speakers

 

The role of regional institutions in promoting peace and development:

Experience from Africa, Americas , Asia and  Europe

Open Discussion

7:00 pm             

Dinner

 

DAY 3: 22 July 2008

9:00 am – 11:00 am

 

E - PLENARY SESSION

Chair: ICMICA Latin America

 

Exhibits Open

Panel of 3 speakers:

Financing for development: challenges posed by corruption and armed conflicts

Open discussion

11:00 am – 11:30 am

Morning Break

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

F - SIMULTANEOUS WORKSHOPS

 

Workshop A:      Youth employment – How to respond to their expectation

 

Workshop B:     Search for peace in the World

                              The role of Interreligious and Intercultural dialogue

 

Workshop C:     Human and Peoples’ Rights in Africa

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Lunch Break

2:30 pm – 4:30 pm

G - PLENARY SESSION

Chair: ICMICA Europe

 

Panel of 3 speakers:

Migration and Development in the World today

Open Discussion

4:30 pm – 5:00 pm

 

Afternoon Break

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

 

H – CLOSING SESSION OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS

Chair: ICMICA Asia

 

 

 

Theological reflection on global governance and global Justice

 

Closing remarks

 


INVITED SPEAKERS

N.B. Following personalities have been invited to contribute in our International Congress. We hope they will accept to attend.

§         His Excellency Archbishop Alain-Paul Lebeaupin, Apostolic Nuncio in Kenya

§         His Grace Archbishop Laurent Pasinya Monsengwo, Archbishop of Kisangani , Democratic Republic of Congo , President of Pax Christi International

§         His Grace Archbishop John Onayekan, Archbishop of Abuja , Nigeria , President of the Christian Association of Nigeria

§         Mt Rev. Peter K. Sarpong, Archbishop of Kumasi , Ghana

§         Prof. Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate

§         Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka, Executive Director of the UN Human Settlements Programme

§         Achim Steiner, Under-Secretary-General of the UN, Executive Director of the UN Environmental Programme

§         Peter Sane, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences

§         Evelyne Herfkens, Executive Coordinator of the UN Millenium Development Goals Campaign

§         Rudolf Adada, Head of the African Union – UN hybrid force in Darfur

§         Abdoulie Janneh, UN Under-Secretary-General, Executive Secretary, UN Economic Commission for Africa

§        Oscar de Rojas, Senior Interregional advisor in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, New York, USA

§         Michel Camdessus,  Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from 1987 to 2000

§         Hart Schafer, Former Director of the Operations for Africa of the World Bank

§         Bernard Petit, Director of the DG Development Directorate B of the European Commission

§         Agnes Kalibbala, Permanent Representative of Uganda to UNEP and UN-Habitat

§         Rev. Fr. Juvenalis Baitu, Director of the Centre for Social Justice and Ethics, Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Kenya

§         Patrick Lumumba,  Expert in crime, law and Human Rights, University of Nairobi , Kenya

§         Anselmo Lee , Korea , Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, former Pax Romana ICMICA General Secretary

§         Zobel Behalal, Cameroon, Consultant for the ‘Centre de lutte contre la Faim et pour le Développement – CCFD’, France

§         Eugenio Gay Montalvo, Basque country, Spain , Jurist, Magistrate of the Constitution, President of the Pax Romana ICMICA Secretariat of Jurists