Defense Offsets
and Economic Development

Wednesday 25th September:
17.00 Registration
18.00 Reception and Opening Addresses:
- Julius Kriel (Maj-Gen retired, South African Defense Force)
- Kate Cell, ECAAR-US
- Paul Dunne, University of the West of England and University of Cape Town

Thursday 26th September
09.00 Registration
10.00 Workshop: Offsets and development I
Chair: Laurence Edwards, UCT
  1. Jurgen Brauer: Augusta State University, US Economic Aspects of Arms Trade Offsets
  2. Paul Levine: University of Surrey, UK: Export Credit Guarantees, Moral Hazard and Exports Quality
  3. Travis Taylor, Alfred University, New York, US: Using Offsets in Procurement

11.30 Coffee

12.00 Workshop: Offsets and development II
Chair: Murray Leibbrandt, UCT
  1. Jeff Dumas, University of Texas,US: Weapons Procurement and Development: Do Offsets Mitigate or Magnify the Military Burden?
  2. Ron Matthews, University of Cranfield, UK: Defence Offsets: Policy v Pragmatism

13.00 Lunch

14.30 Workshop: Offsets and development case studies I
Chair: Geoff Harris, UND
  1. Bjorn Hagelin, SIPRI, Sweden: Nordic offset policies: Experiences and expectations
  2. Elisabeth Skoens, SIPRI, Sweden: The Economic Aspects of Defence Offsets: Experience from Sweden and Finland
  3. Wally Struys, Royal Military Academy Brussels, Belgium: Offsets in small countries:between Scylla and Charybdis?

16.00 Tea

16.30 Workshop: Workshop: Offsets and development: case studies II
Chair: Philip Black, Stellenbosch, UWC
  1. Sam Perlo Freeman, Middlesex University, UK: Offsets and the Development of the Brazilian Defence Industry.
  2. Tom Scheetz, Lincoln University College and Universidad Argentina de la Empresa, Buenos Aire, Argentina: The Argentine Defense Industry, its Past and Current State: An Evaluation

18.00 Keynote lecture:
Ann Markusen, University of Minnesota, US : The Arms Trade as Illiberal Trade
Chair: Kate Cell, ECAAR (US)

20.00 Conference Dinner

Friday 27th September

09.30 Workshop: Offsets and development in SA I
Chair: Jurgen Brauer, Augusta State University
  1. Paul Dunne, University of the West of England: The Economics of SA Offsets
  2. Terry Crawford-Browne, ECAAR (SA): The SA Arms Deal
  3. Richard Haines, UPE: The Defence Offsets and Regional Development in South Africa.

11.00 Coffee

11.30 Workshop: Offsets and development in SA II
Chair: Guy Lamb, UCT
  1. Leslie Bank, Stephen Hosking and Richard Haines, UPE: The Defence Offsets and Economic Development in the Eastern Cape
  2. Wikkie Burger and Gavin Bradshaw, UPE. Conflict, Public Participation and Sustainable Development: The Case of the Coega IDZ Project
  3. Gillian McEwan, UPE: Defence offsets and the South African Aerospace Industry
  4. Poster presentations

13.00 Lunch

14.30 Closing plenary: Open Forum
Chair: Paul Dunne, UWE and UCT
Panel: Julius Kreil (Maj-Gen and ex-Director AMD)
         Lionel October (Department of Trade and Industry)
         Charles Stride (Consultant)
         Martin Welz (Noseweek)
         Rob Thompson (Ceasefire)
         Sam Sole (Mail & Guardian)

16.30 Tea and Poster time
17.00 Closing remarks