9:00 – 9:30 Opening Remarks
Nancy Lindborg, President, USIP
Ambassador U Aung Lynn, Embassy of Myanmar
9:30 – 10:45 Panel 1: Burma’s Political and International Affairs
Priscilla Clapp, Senior Advisor, USIP
Ambassador Derek Mitchell, Senior Advisor, USIP
Panelist to be confirmed
Moderator: Andrew Wilder, Vice President, Asia Center, USIP
10:45 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:15 Panel 2: Conflict in the Borderlands
Ja Nan Lahtaw, Director, Nyein (Shalom) Foundation
Yun Sun, Senior Associate, Stimson Center
David Mathieson, Independent Analyst
Moderator: Vanessa Johanson, Burma Country Director, USIP
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch and Keynote Remarks: The U.S. Role in Burma’s Transition
W. Patrick Murphy, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Southeast Asia, U.S. Department of State
13:45 – 15:00 Panel 3: Rakhine, Rohingya, and Intercommunal Violence
Kyaw Yin Hlaing, Director, Center for Diversity and National Harmony
Susan Hayward, Director, Religion and Inclusive Societies, USIP
Steven Ross, Project Manager, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
Moderator: David Mathieson, Independent Analyst
15.00 – 15.15 Break
15:15 – 16:45 Panel 4: Ways Forward? The Peace Process, Development and Other Challenges
U Aung Kyi, Chair, Advisory Committee, Myanmar Peace Commission
Ardeth Thawnghmung, Professor, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Paul Grove, Senate Committee on Appropriations
Vanessa Johanson, Burma Country Director, USIP
Moderator: Priscilla Clapp, Senior Advisor, USIP
16.45 – 17.00 Closing Remarks: Ambassador Derek Mitchell, Senior Advisor, USIP