| 10:00 - 10:30 | Opening Remarks | H.E. Mr. Vidar Helgesen, State Secretary for United Nations affairs (Norway) |
| Address | Mr. Kofi Annan, Secretary-General, United Nations |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Panel 1 | "The challenge of running peacekeeping operations: personal reflections" |
| Chair | Mr. David M. Malone, President, International Peace Academy |
| Panelists | Sir Marrack Goulding, former Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations |
| | Mr. Bernard Miyet, former Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations |
| | Mr. Iqbal S. Riza, Under-Secretary-General and Chef de Cabinet of the Secretary-General; former Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, former Special Representative of the Secretary-General for El Salvador and for Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| | Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations |
| Discussion | |
| 11:50-12:00 | Remarks | H.E. Mr. Arthur C.I. Mbanefo, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations and Chairman of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations |
| 12:00-13:00 | Panel 2 | "What does it take to make UN peacekeeping operations succeed? Reflections from the field" |
| Chair | Ms. Louise Fréchette, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations |
| Panelists | Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, former Special Representative of the Secretary-General for East Timor and for Kosovo |
| | Mr. Lakhdar Brahimi, Special Representative of the Secretary General for Afghanistan, former Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Haiti and for South Africa |
| | Mr. Oluyemi Adeniji, Special Representative of the Secretary General for Sierra Leone, former Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Central African Republic |
| | Mr. Jacques Paul Klein, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Discussion | |
| 13:00-13:15 | Closing Remarks | Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations |