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August 17 – 23, 2008

Sunday - 08/17/08

Location: **Zurich Airport**

Time: 7:45 pm

Event: Arrival

Time: 9:30 pm Event: Travel to Bern

Monday 2 – 08/18/08

Location: **Allegro Kursaal Bern**

Time: 9:30 am

Event: Welcome - Introduction

Time: 10:00 am Event: Official Welcome by Swiss Authorities

Speaker(s): * Michael Ambuehl, State Secretary of the Swiss Federal Department of

Foreign Affairs

Time: 10:30 am Event: Concept and Program

Speaker(s): * Raoul Blindenbacher, Advisor, World Bank Institute * Jason Gluck, Rule of Law Advisor, United States Institute of Peace

Time: 11:30 am Event: Overview Theme Second Chamber and Theme Courts

Speaker(s): * Luzius Mader, Deputy General Director, Ministry of the Swiss Federal

Department of Justice

Time: 12:30 pm Event: LUNCH

Monday – 08/18/08 (Cont’d)

Location: ** Berne **

Time: 2:00 pm

Event: Fieldtrip 1: Second Council of States (Staenderat) Speaker(s):

* Philippe Schwab, Secretary of the Council of States * Alain Berset, Vice President of the Council of States (TBC)

Time: 5:30 pm

Event: RECEPTION

Time: 7:00 pm Event: DINNER

Speaker(s): * Arnold Koller, Former President of Switzerland

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Tuesday – 08/19/08

Location: **Allegro Kursaal Bern**

Time: 9:00 am Event: Self and Group Reflection

Moderator(s): * Raoul Blindenbacher, Advisor, World Bank Institute * Sermid Al-Sarraf, Rule of Law Implementer, United States Institute of

Peace

Time: 9:30 am Event: International Cases: Second Chamber

Moderator(s): * Mitchell O’Brian, Parliamentary Strengthening Program, World Bank

Institute. Speaker(s): * Lord Norton of Louth, Member of the Upper House and Professor of

Government, The University of Hull * Paul Belisle, Clerk of the Canadian Senate * Horst Risse, Secretary of the Federal Reform Committee in Germany

Time: 12:30 pm

Event: LUNCH Location: ** Berne **

Time: 2:00 pm

Event: Fieldtrip 2A: Governments of States Speaker(s): * Kurt Nuspliger, Chief of Staff, State Chancellery of the Canton of

Berne

Tuesday – 08/19/08 (Cont’d) Location: ** Basel-City **

Time: 4:30 pm

Event: Fieldtrip 2B: Governments of States Speaker(s): * Guy Morin, President of the Canton of Basel-City * Ralph Lewin, Minister of Commerce of the Canton of Basel-City

Time: 7:00 pm

Event: DINNER

Wednesday – 08/20/08 Location: **Allegro Kursaal Bern**

Time: 9:00 am

Event: Self and Group Reflection Moderator(s): * Raoul Blindenbacher, Advisor, World Bank Institute * Sermid Al-Sarraf, Rule of Law Implementer, United States Institute of

Peace

Time: 9:30 am Event: Second Chamber in Post Conflict Countries

Moderator(s): * Mitchell O’Brian, Parliamentary Strengthening Program, World Bank

Institute. Speaker(s): * Nico Steytler, Director, Community Law Centre, University of

Western Cape, South Africa

Time: 11:00 am Event: Transformation

Moderator(s): * Mitchell O’Brian, Parliamentary Strengthening Program, World Bank

Institute.

Time: 12:30 pm Event: LUNCH

Location: ** Lausanne **

Time: 4:00 pm

Event: Fieldtrip 3: Swiss Federal Court Speaker(s): * Heinz Aemisegger, Justice and former Chief Justice * Marc Forster, Clerk of the Federal Court

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Wednesday – 08/20/08 (Cont’d)

Time: 7:00 pm Event: DINNER Welcome:

* Arthur Aeschlimann, Chief Justice of Switzerland Speaker(s): * A. M. Ahmadi, Fmr. Chief Justice of India

Thursday – 08/21/08

Location: **Allegro Kursaal Bern**

Time: 9:00 am

Event: Self and Group Reflection Moderator(s): * Raoul Blindenbacher, Advisor, World Bank Institute * Sermid Al-Sarraf, Rule of Law Implementer, United States Institute of

Peace

Time: 9:30 am Event: Judicial Federalism in Brazil and Nigeria

Moderator(s): * Hisham A. Abdo Kahin, Counsel, Justice Reform Practice Group, Legal

Vice Presidency, The World Bank Speaker(s): * Ellen Gracie Northfleet, former President of the Supreme Court and

first woman to hold this position in Brazil * Muhammadu Lawal Uwais, former Chief Justice of Nigeria

Time: 12:30 pm

Event: LUNCH

Location: ** Geneva **

Time: 4:00 pm Event: Fieldtrip 4: State Court

Speaker(s): Cantonal Administrational Court of the Canton of Geneva * Raphael Mahler, Secretaire General du Pouvoir Judiciaire * Francois Paycher, Justice of the Cantonal Administrational Court

Time: 6:00 pm Event: RECEPTION

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Friday – 08/22/08

Location: **Allegro Kursaal Bern**

Time: 9:00 am

Event: Transformation Moderator(s): * Hisham A. Abdo Kahin, Counsel, Justice Reform Practice Group, Legal

Vice Presidency, The World Bank

Time: 10:30 am Event: Evaluation

Moderator(s): * Raoul Blindenbacher, Advisor, World Bank Institute * Jason Gluck, Rule of Law Advisor, United States Institute of Peace

Location: **Gasthof Lowen Worb** Time: 12:30 pm

Event: LUNCH

Time: 2:30 pm Event: Travel to Zurich

Location: **Zurich**

Time: 4:00 pm Event: Sightseeing Zurich

Saturday – 08/23/08

Location: **Zurich Airport**

Time: 3:30 pm and 10:15 pm Event Departure

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