Thursday, June 14 

Welcome and opening remarks – Jarle Aarbakke and Toralf Hasvold 

Session 1: Health workers as agents for peace

Keynote: Health workers as agents for peace - Ole D. Mjøs

• Paper: Psychotherapy and Peace - Kerstin Stellermann
• Paper: Teaching peace and health through health community service and student exchange programs - Zeina El-Chemali 

Session 2: Essential skills, knowledge and values in medical peace work

• Keynote: What do you get when you mix health, peace and development? - Mike Rowson
• Paper: Need and content of Do No Harm trainings - Sam Engelstad
• Paper: Peace qualities and deficits in health professionals - Neil Arya

Session 3: Peace-through-Health: Reflecting the McMaster experiences

• Roundtable presentations (by video conferencing): Peace through Health - Joanna Santa Barbara, Graeme MacQueen, Avita Sooknanan, Stephanie Archer, Sarah Brownrigg and Jesleen Rana 

Session 4: Appropriate teaching methodologies: A question of effect

• Keynote: Student involvement and peer education in peace-health practice - Caecilie Buhmann
• Paper: Human Rights online - experiences with a web course for prison doctors - Bjørn Oscar Hoftvedt
• Paper: Peace education in disaster and war settings - Kremlin Wickramasinghe
   

Friday, June 15 

Session 5: Linking peace and health in new research projects

• Keynote: Research challenges and the Aid for Peace Approach - Luc Reychler
• Paper: A peace-health-sensitive approach in international work - Stig Nymo
• Paper: High-impact general medical journals and peace: a history of involvement - Dario Sambunjak

Session 6: Challenges in establishing a new academic discipline

• Keynote: Lessons learned through Global Health - John Yudkin
• Paper: When framing matters - peace or human rights? - Stephan Kolb
• Paper: Peace-health issues and academia - Klaus Melf

Session 7: How to go on?
Focus groups and plenary discussion  

Conference summary and closure