Program

9:00 am - 9:15 am Introduction	Harley Shaiken Professor and Director Center for Latin American Studies University of California at Berkeley	Background/Areas of Interest: Changes in work, technology and global production, labor standards and trade.

9:00 am - 9:15 am Moderator	Jim Robinson Professor of Political Science University of California at Berkeley	Comparative politics, economic and political change, democratization and political revolution.

9:15 am - 9:45 am Introductory Lecture	Catherine LeGrand Associate Professor, History McGill University, Montreal	Agrarian history, peasant movements and agrarian reform in Colombia, local responses to foreign investment in agriculture.

9:45 am - 10:05 am Armed Conflict	Ana María Bejarano Political Scientist, Visiting Scholar Kellogg Institute for International Studies	Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Universidad de Los Andes, Director of Center for Socio-Legal Studies.

10:05 am - 10:25 am U.S. - Colombian Narcodiplomacy	Juan Tokatlián Professor Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina	Senior Researcher IEPRI*. Co-founder and director of Centro de Estudios Internacionales at Universidad de los Andes. Topics: Colombian foreign policy, drug trafficking.

10:25 am - 10:45 am Economy	Roberto Steiner Director of CEDE, Universidad de los Andes	Director of Research Department of Colombia's Central Bank, Sub-Director Fedesarrollo, Consultant World Bank, IMF, IADB and ECLAC. Professor Uniandes.

10:45 am - 11:00 am	Coffee Break

11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Questions

Moderator	Manuel Castells Professor of Sociology and City and Regional Planning University of California at Berkeley	Background/Areas of Interest: Information technology and social change in U.S., Western Europe, Russia, the Asian Pacific, and Latin America.

2:00 pm - 2:15 pm Peace Process	Eduardo Pizarro Visiting Fellow Kellogg Institute for International Studies University of Notre Dame, Indiana	Political scientist, Co founder and ex-Director of IEPRI*, Colombia, Visiting Professor at Columbia University.

2:15 pm - 2:30 pm Human Rights	Andrew Miller Acting Advocacy Director for Latin America and the Caribbean Amnesty International	Human rights observer with Peace Brigades International. Worked with displaced communities in Colombia.

2:30 pm - 2:45 pm Plan Colombia	Mauricio Cárdenas Consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank	Former Director of National Planning Department, Minister of Transportation, Minister of Development, Director of Fedesarrollo.

2:45 pm - 3:00 pm U.S. Foreign Policy	Bruce Bagley Professor of International and Comparative Studies University of Miami	Ass. Professor of Latin American Studies at SAIS, Director of Andean republics course at U.S. Department of State.

3:00 pm - 3:15 pm	Coffee Break

3:15 pm - 3:45 pm	Panel Questions

3:45 pm - 4:30 pm	Open Questions