Venue
Roger Williams University’s newly completed Lecture Theater, Exhibition Gallery, and Seminar
spaces specially designed for the Center and the School of Architecture, Art and Historic Preservation will
be the main location of the Conference’s public sessions and Decision Seminar working groups. Sites
around the world will be linked to the Conference through the World Bank’s Global Distance Learning
Network.
The Roger Williams University School of Law Appellate Courtroom will be open to members of the Roger Williams University Community and public to view all sessions and proceedings. A live broadcast will also be carried by the University's Channel 5 for class room viewing.
The Conference’s April 21 sessions and April 22 morning sessions is open to the public. Invited participants take part in the April 22 Decision Seminar Working Group Sessions. Accommodations will be made for these participants.
Roy J. Nirschel, Ph.D., President, Roger Williams University
Frank P. Davidson, American Co-Founder, Channel Tunnel Study Group; Founding Advisor, Center for Macro Projects and Diplomacy
Stephen White, Director, Center for Macro Projects and Diplomacy
Chair: Stephen White
Reconstruction and Peace-building
Dame Margaret Anstee, Undersecretary General (retired), the United Nations
Reconnection for Reconstruction in Western Europe, 1945-1955
Uwe Kitzinger, CBE, Founding President, Templeton College, Oxford;
President, International Association of Macro-engineering Societies
National Reconstruction: Afghanistan
H.E. Dr. Anwar ul-Haq Ahady, Minister of Finance, Government of Afghanistan
Divided Cities
Jon Calame, Minerva Partners, New York; Adjunct Faculty, Roger Williams University
Discussion
Chair: Uwe Kitzinger, CBE
Hope for the Future in Southeast Europe: Civic Courage and Reconciliation
Svetlana Broz, author/cardiologist, Sarajevo; Founder, Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide
Re-Building Mostar: Preservation in a Post-War Context
Judith Bing, Drexel University; Brooke Harrington, Temple University
Spaces of Encounter—The Mostar Studio, The Roger Williams Macro Studio, Fall 2004
Hasan-uddin Khan, Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Historic Preservation
Charles Hagenah, Associate Professor of Architecture, Roger Williams University students
Discussion: Lejla Tuzlak, Sarajevo; Jon Calame, Minerva Partners; Julian Bonder, RWU
Chair: Roy J. Nirschel, Ph.D.
Southeast Asia Potentials
Jean Louis Armand, President Emeritus, The Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok; Professor, Universite de la Mediterranee, Marseilles
Roy J. Nirschel, Pd.D., President, Roger Williams University
Middle East/Central Asia Potentials
Hala D. Taweel, President, University of the Middle East, Cambridge
L. Michael Hager, Education for Employment Foundation, Washington
Discussion: Debra Mulligan, RWU
Chair: Hasan-uddin Khan
Eurasian Continental Linkages: The Silk Road Culture and Infrastructure Initiatives
Laura Freid, CEO and Executive Director, The Silk Road Project, Providence
Norio Yamamoto, Executive Vice-President, The Global Infrastructure Fund, Japan
A Civilian-Military Conservation Corps
Janet Caristo-Verrill, President, Boston Chapter of the American Society of
Macroengineering
Discussion: Fumio Nishino, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan, Vice-President, Asian Institute of Technology; Andrew Lemer, Matrix Group
Chair: Mark Sawoski
Current Afghan Reconstruction Efforts
Mrs. Fatima Gailani, Secretary-Generalr, Afghanistan Red Crescent Society
Afghan Reconstruction Vision, 2002
Kabul University, and Japanese Society of Civil Engineers
Fumio nishino, Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyol; Fellow, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan
Nation-Building, Afghanistan: The Roger Williams Macro Seminar, Spring 2005
Mark Sawoski, Professor of International Relations, students
Provincial Reconstruction, Bamiyan: The Roger Williams Macro Studio, Spring 2005
Charles Hagenah, Associate Professor, Patrick Charles, Assistant Professor, students
Introduction of Working Group Concept, Formation of Working Groups
Co-leaders: Center for Macro Projects and Diplomacy Board Member, guests
Arch 101
Arch 102
Arch 239
Arch 2-6
Planning for the Unplanned: Recovering from Crises in Megacities
Aseem Inam, University of Michigan
H.E. Dr. Anwar ul-haq Ahady, Minister of Finance, Government of Afghanistan
Jane Alexander, Esq., J+J Agri-Products, Dillsburg, PA
Dame Margaret Anstee, Undersecretary General (retired), The United Nations
Jean-Louis Armand, President Emeritus, The Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok; Professor, Universite de la Mediterranee, Marseilles
Allan Baer, e7 Micro Solar Program Director
Alberto Balestrieri, Assistant Dean, School of Architecture, Art and Historic Preservation, RWU
Judith Bing, Associate Professor of Architecture, Drexel University
Julian Bonder, Associate Professor of Architecture, RWU
Svetlana Broz, author/cardiologist, Founder, Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide, Sarajevo
Jon Calame; Minerva Partners, New York, Adjunct Faculty, RWU
Janet Caristo-Verrill, President, Boston Chapter of the American Society for Macro-Engineering
Patrick Charles, Assistant Professor of Architecture, RWU
Frank P. Davidson, American Co-Founder, Channel Tunnel Study Group; Founding Advisor,
The Center for Macro Projects and Diplomacy
Izaline Davidson
Kenneth Maurice Davidson, Senior Attorney, Federal Trade Commission; author, Megamergers
Peter Deekle, Dean of University Libraries and Director of the Honors Program, RWU
John Evans, Electronic Systems Command, United States Air Force
Helen Evans
Laura Freid, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, the Silk Road Project, Providence
Fatima Gailani, Secretary-General, Afghanistan Red Crescent Society
Timothy Ganetis, Publications Manager, The Center for Macro Projects and Diplomacy, RWU
Richard Gardiner, Landscape Architect, Newburyport, Massachusetts
Alexander Gorlov, Professor of Civil Engineering, Northeastern University
Charles Hagenah, Associate Professor of Architecture, RWU
L. Michael Hager, President, Education for Employment Foundation, Washington
June Hager
Elizabeth Dean Hermann, Visiting Scholar, Global Environment Program, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University; Professor of Landscape Architecture, Urban Design and Islamic Architectural History, Rhode Island School of Design
Aseem Inam, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, the University of Michigan
Hasan-uddin Khan, Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Historic Preservation, RWU;
Founding Editor, Mimar: Architecture in Development
Uwe Kitzinger, CBE, Chairman, International Association of Macro-Engineering Societies;
Founding President, Templeton College, Oxford
Sandra Knight, former Member of Editorial Staff, Technology Review, MIT
Louis Kramp, Founder, Commonweal, Washington
Sally E. Lapides, Residential Properties, Providence; Board of Trustees, RWU
Andrew C. Lemer, President, The Matrix Group, Baltimore
Rebecca Leuchak, Director, The Marc and Peggy Spiegel Center for Global and International Programs, RWU
David Logan, Dean, Papitto School of Law, RWU
Kathleen Brooke Lusk, President, The Center for the Study of Success, Mattapoisett, Massachusetts
Fred Moahvenzadeh, Professor and Head, Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT
Debra Mulligan, Assistant Professor of History and Assistant Director, Honors Program, RWU
Fumio Nishino, Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo; Fellow, National Graduate Institute of Policy Studies, Japan
Paula Nirschel, Founder, Initiative to Educate Afghan Women
Roy J. Nirschel, Ph.D., President, Roger Williams University
Robert Potter, Dean, School of Engineering, Computing and Construction Management, RWU
Michael Rich, Assistant Professor of Art, RWU
Linda Riley, Associate Dean, School of Engineering, Computing, Construction Management, RWU
Alexander Rossolimo, President, Center for Security and Social Progress, Waban, Massachusetts
Mrs. Alexander Rossolimo
Peter Roudebush, Architect, New Wing, Newport Art Museum, Rhode Island
Karl Sabbagh, author, England
Hiroaki Sakurai, Research Fellow, Nagoya University, Japan
Mark Sawoski, Professor of International Relations and Associate Director , The Center for Macro Projects and Diplomacy, RWU
Wallace O. Sellers, retired chief executive, re-insurance companies; retired executive, Merrill Lynch; Board Member, The Hudson Institute
Hala D. Taweel, President, The University of the Middle East Project, Cambridge
Eugene Taylor, The Saybrook Institute and Harvard Medical School
Collette Teissier du Cros, Architectural Historian, Paris
James Thomas
Lejla Tuzlak, Faculty of Architecture, Sarajevo University
Okan Ustunkok, Associate Dean, School of Architecture, Art and Historic Preservation, RWU
Stephen White, Dean, School of Architecture, Art and Historic Preservation; Director, Center for Macro Projects and Diplomacy, RWU
William Yale, attorney, Newport, RI
Norio Yamamoto, Executive Vice-President, Global Infrastructure Fund, Japan
Emily Angelo
William Arvidson
Mahbooba Babrakzai
Stefanie Balzotti
Timothy Bestor
Sarah Bogdan
Michael Breer
Douglas Coll
Allison Conover
Chad Crain
Adam Darter
Adam David
Chelsea Dekis
Chelsea Dekis
James Dixon
Rachael Dondzila
Sara Fitzgerald
Stacy Hassell
Paul Hauser
Timothy Heckscher
Meaden Hendricks
Heather Hogan
Kevin Hutton
Jeremy Jamilkowski
Daniel Johnson
Erin Kistner
Anna Kozma
Derek Lariviere
Christopher Lee
Kevin Lisinski
Timothy MacKay
Karen Marshall
Adam Maust
Yujin Nagao
Patrick Nealon
David Norris
Andrew Ostrander
Elizabeth Paolini
Thomas Papp
Chul Hoon Park
Emily Parris
Julie Patryn
David Pecirep
Christopher Poles
Sara Quagliaroli
Danilo Quinonez
Gregory Ralph
Nathaniel Richards
Kate Richardson
Daniel Rodenbush
Daniel Rogers
Jeff Rosenberg
Amanda Roy
William Rudge
Louis Santos
Kathleen Scanlon
Louis Schellhase
Abigail Schicht
Stephen Scirrotto
Nicole Simone
Richard Stibolt
Quinn Stuart
Marcio Tavares
Sara Taylor
Jeremy Thibodeau
Matthew Tomkinson
Aran Walsh
Benjamin Waters
Frank Wierszachalek
Megan Young