9:00-9:30

Introduction

• Donatella Rostagno (Director, European Network for Central Africa EurAc)
• Koen Vlassenroot (Africa Director, Egmont Institute)
  

9:30-11:00

Panel 1: Overall reflection on Central Africa’s delimitation and regional dynamics

Chair: Donatella Rostagno (Director, European Network for Central Africa EurAc)

Speakers:

• Rigobert Minani sj. (Coordinator, Jesuit Africa Social Centres Network )
• Koen Vlassenroot (Egmont Institute – Brussels)
  

11:00-11:15

Coffee Break

11:15-12:45

Panel 2: Security and political crisis affecting Central Africa (outside Burundi, the DRC and Rwanda)

Chair: Valerie Arnould (Senior Research Fellow, Egmont Institute)

Speakers:

• CAR: Tatiana Carayannis (Deputy Director, Social Science Research Council)
• Uganda: Jamie Hitchen (Researcher, Africa Research Institute)
• South Sudan : Rachel Ibreck (research Fellow, Goldsmiths University)
  

12:45-13:30

Lunch Break

13:30-15:00

Panel 3: Central Africa and international key players influencing politics and security in Burundi, the DRC and Rwanda

Chair: Fraser Murray (Board Member EurAc representing Christian Aid)

Speakers

• Judith Verweijen (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Conflict Research Group, Ghent University)
• Manuel Klimis (Researcher, Centre de Recherche en Science Politique des Facultés Universitaires of St. Louis & Coordinator of the Groupe de recherche en appui aux politiques de paix – Brussels)
•    Jozef Smets (Africa Director, Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
  

15:00-15:15

Coffee Break

15:15-16:15

Panel 4: The structuring of EU’s relations with the Central Africa region

Chair:  Donatella Rostagno (Director, European Network for Central Africa EurAc)

Speakers:

• Francesca Di Mauro (DG DEVCO, European Commission)
• Douglas Carpenter (European External Action Service)
  

16:15-16:30

Conclusions

• Fraser Murray (Board Member EurAc representing Christian Aid – London)