Program

8:30 - 9:00AM

Registration and Breakfast

Brief remarks with Bonnie Weir, Yale University

9:00 - 10:30AM

Session 1- Making Peace: Past, Present, and Future

Introduction and Chair:  Richard English, Queen’s University Belfast

Panel

• Taoiseach Dr. Bertie Ahern, Former Taoiseach and Member of Fianna Fáil 
• Senator George J. Mitchell, Former Senator of Maine
• General John de Chastelain, Chair of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning in Northern Ireland

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10:45AM - 12:15PM

Session 2- Politics: Setbacks and Successes 1998-2018

Introduction and Chair:  Jonathan Powell, Founder and Chief Executive of Inter Mediate

Panel

• Mitchel McLaughlin, Former General Secretary of Sinn Féin
• Peter Robinson, Former First Minister of Northern Ireland
• Peter Sheridan, Chief Executive of Co-operation Ireland
• Monica McWilliams, Emeritus Professor, Transitional Justice Institute, Ulster University

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12:15 - 1:15PM

Lunch

1:15 - 3:15PM

Session 3- The Future(s) of Northern Ireland

Introduction and Chair: Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science, Yale University

Discussants

• Representatives of Political Parties

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3:30 - 5:00PM

Seminar-  Northern Ireland and Beyond: Lessons for Peacemaking?

Discussant and Chair:  Bonnie Weir, Lecturer in Political Science, Yale University

Panel

• Jonathan Powell, Founder and Chief Executive of Inter Mediate
• Emma Sky, Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Program, Yale University
• Kieran McEvoy, Professor of Law and Transitional Justice at the School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast
• Richard English, Professor of Politics, Queen’s University Belfast

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5:00 - 6:00PM

Closing Reception with remarks on moving forward

Introduction: Dr. Christopher Moran, Co-operation Ireland

• Representatives of the British and Irish