From the 26th to 28th of September 2005, ICOS held The Kabul International Symposium on Global Drug Policy, a high-level international conference that brought drug policy experts from around the world to meet with Afghan government officials, along with other key stakeholders and international organisations present in Afghanistan. The conference addressed issues of drug addiction and treatment, cultivation, eradication and alternative livelihoods and organized crime and legal responses.
The Symposium also marked the release of the initial findings of ICOS's Feasibility Study on Opium Licensing for the Production of Morphine and Other Essential Medicines. View documents released at the Symposium.
For more information regarding the Symposium in Kabul or ICOS's projects in Afghanistan, please contact Mr. Jorrit Kamminga at
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Wednesday, 28 September, 2005
DAY III - WORKSHOPS AND CLOSING SESSION
09:30 - 11:00 WORKSHOP I: DRUG TREATMENT CAPACITY BUILDING
Moderator: Dr. Shairshah Bayan,
Coordinator, Project for Integrated Drug Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation in Afghanistan (IDPA), GTZ, Germany
Moderator: Mr. Philip Owen,
Mayor, City of Vancouver (1995-2002), Canada
09:30 - 11:00 WORKSHOP II: DRUGS AND DEVELOPMENT
Moderator: Dr. Omar Zakhilwal,
President, Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA)
Moderator: Dr. Barnett Rubin,
Director of Studies, Center on International Cooperation, New York University
09:30 - 11:00 WORKSHOP III: DRUGS AND CONFLICT
Moderator: Dr. Ali Wardak,
Professor of Criminology, University of Glamorgan, United Kingdom
11:30 - 13:00 SESSION VI: DRUGS, SECURITY AND THE RULE OF LAW
Chair: Mr. Raymond Kendall,
Former Secretary General, Interpol
Mr. Hugo Warner,
Research Fellow, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, BIICL
Speech
Prof. Gul Rahman Qazi,
President of the Afghan Lawyers Association, Head of Department of Law and Political Science, National Centre for Policy Research
Ms. Vanda Felbab-Brown,
Ph.D. Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, United States
Speech
Senator Pierre Claude Nolin,
Canada
Speech
14:30 - 16:00 SESSION VII: WORKSHOP CONCLUSIONS AND CLOSING SESSION
Chair: Mr. Emmanuel Reinert,
Executive Director, ICOS
Dr. Ali Wardak,
Professor of Criminology, University of Glamorgan, United Kingdom
Dr. Shairshah Bayan,
Coordinator, Project for Integrated Drug Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation in Afghanistan (IDPA), GTZ, Germany
Mr. Hans Schmidt,
Strategy Advisor, Project for Alternative Livelihoods for Eastern Afghanistan, GTZ
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