“FINAL” AGENDA  (as of 6/19/06)

Legacies and Lessons of Normalization of US Diplomatic, Economic

and Educational Relations with Cambodia, Laos and Viet Nam

The Lindner Family Commons

Elliott School of International Affairs

The George Washington University

1957 E St, NW, Sixth floor, Room 602

Washington, DC

Conference I: Legacies

Tuesday, June 20

The role of US civil society

8:00 a.m.  registration, coffee

9:00 a.m   Opening remarks

Rev. Robert Edger, General Secretary, National Council of Churches; former Member of Congress

Linda Yarr, Director, Program for International Studies in Asia

9:45 a.m.  Non-governmental Organizations

David Elder, former Director of Asia Programs, American Friends Service Committee

Roger Rumpf, Co-Field Representative, Laos and Viet Nam, American Friends Service Committee ‘78-81, ‘86-90

Greg Bastian, Catholic Relief Services

Richard Walden, President, Operation USA

Sally Benson, former Chair of Cambodia Campaign (CORKR), FRD Board member

John McAuliff, Executive Director, Fund for Reconciliation and Development

Nguyen Van Kien, Director General of PACCOM

11:15   Coffee break

11:45   Business community

Virginia Foote, US-Viet Nam Trade Council, US-ASEAN Business Council

Khamphoui Manyseng, CEO & Owner-Global Advanced Technology, Inc.

Andre Sauvageot, representative of General Electric in Vietnam, 1993-2003

12:30  Lunch

1:30 p.m.  Veterans

John Terzano, Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation/Veterans International

Jan Scruggs, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund

Kevin Bowen, William Joiner Center

Steve Sherlock, Aid to Southeast Asia

Rick Weidman, Vietnam Veterans of America

3:00 p.m. Coffee break

3:30 p.m. Education

Mary McDonnell, Executive Director, Social Science Research Council

Jack Bailey, Deputy Executive Director, Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), Institute of

    International Education (IIE), former IIE country representative in Viet Nam

Doan Thi Nam-Hau, President, CHEER for Vietnam

Seree Weroha, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

Linda Yarr, Director, Program for International Studies in Asia, Elliott School of International Affairs

Fred Brown, Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies

5:00 p.m.  Cambodian, Lao and Vietnamese Americans

Yang Dao, Laotian Multi-Ethnic Alliance for USA-Laos Friendship

Channapha Khamvongsa, Project Director and Founder, Legacies of War

Le Xuan Khoa, former director, Southeast Asia Resource Center

Doan Thi Nam-Hau, President, CHEER for Vietnam

Van Tran, Assistant Director, Vietnam Program, Social Science Research Council

  (Others to be announced)

6:30 p.m.. Reception

7:30 p.m.  short excerpts from The Last Ghost of War, a film about the victims of Agent Orange.by Janet Gardner

Wednesday, June 21

Engagement by governments

8:30 a.m.  Registration

9:00 a.m..  US Government

Richard Childress, former director of Asia Affairs, National Security Council

Ann Mills Griffiths, Executive Director, National League of POW/MIA Families, 1978 – current

Andre Sauvageot, special assistant to US Ambassador in Thailand for Indochina Affairs

Desaix Anderson, first US Charge d’Affaires to Socialist Republic of Viet Nam

Charles Twining, first post-war US Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia

Scot Marciel, Director, Office of Mainland Southeast Asia, U.S. Department of State

11:00 a.m. coffee break

11:30 a.m.  Representatives of Cambodia, Laos, Viet Nam

HE Widhya Chem, Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Cambodia to the United Nations

HE Sereywath Ek, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Cambodia to the United States

HE Phanthong Phommahaxay, Ambassador of Lao PDR to the United States

Bui The Giang, Director, People-to-People Relations Department, Central Commission for External

   Relations  of the CPV, Member of the Working Group of COMINGO

1:00 p.m.  lunch

2:00 p.m.  Physical legacies: land mines, UXO, Agent Orange

Jerilyn Brusseau, co-founder, Peace Trees Vietnam

Larrie Warren, Director, Post Conflict Rehabilitation, VVAF/VI; former Country Representative in Cambodia

Diane Fox, Hamilton College, Fellow in Asian Studies, Hamilton College

Arnold Schecter, University of Texas School of Public Health in Dallas

Dean Kokorris, attorney in Vietnamese Agent Orange case

Susan Hammond, Deputy Director, Fund for Reconciliation and Development

3:30 p.m.  coffee break

4:00 p.m.  Current Trade Issues and Their Sources

Catharin Dalpino, Georgetown University

Virginia Foote, US-Vietnam Trade Council, US-ASEAN Business Council

Viji Rangaswami, Trade, Equity and Development Project; Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Ed Gresser, Director, Trade and Global Markets Project, Progressive Policy Institute (to be confirmed)

5:30 p.m.  Open discussion of the past, present and future of US relations with Indochina

6:30 p.m. Reception

7:30 p.m.  Rough cut of film documenting Peter Yarrow concert and advocacy tour of Viet Nam (if ready)

Conference II:  Lessons

Thursday, June 22d

8:30 a.m.  registration and coffee

9;00 a.m.  Why not Cuba?  Reconciliation Road Maps
Col Lawrence Wilkerson, USA (Ret.), Former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell

Wayne Smith, Center for International Policy, former chief of US Interests Section in Havana

Robert Muse, attorney
Jake Colvin, USA-Engage
Kirby Jones, Alamar Associates

Richard Walden, President, Operation USA
Mavis Anderson, Latin America Working Group

 

10:30 a.m.  Coffee break

11:00 a.m.  Continuation of discussion

 

12:00 noon  Adjourn