Opening Ceremony

Lt Gen (Ret.) T.T. Matanzima, South African Military Ombud

Ambassador Thomas Guerber, Director, DCAF

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Conference Opening

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• Speaker 1: Ms. Nosiviwe Noluthando Mapisa-Nqakula, Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Republic of South Africa

• Speaker 2: Ambassador Thomas Guerber, Director, DCAF

• Speaker 3: Adv. Busisiwe Mkhwebane, Public Protector of the Republic of South Africa

• Speaker 4: Lt Gen (Ret.) T.T. Matanzima, South African Military Ombud

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Speakers to be introduced by Lt Gen (Ret.) T.T. Matanzima

Session 1. The evolving roles and responsibilities of the armed forces and the implications for ombuds institutions 

Chair: Nene Eddedine Sissoko Traore, Ombudswoman of Mali

• Speaker 1: : Lt Gen B.M.N Hlatshwayo Chief of Joint Operations – SANDF

• Speaker 2:Dr. Hans-Peter Bartels, German Parliamentary Commissioner

• Speaker 3: Tinko Weibezahl, Konrad Adenauer Foundation

Session 2: Domestic security: implications for ombuds institutions

Introductory remarks by:

• Karl Schneemann, Austrian Parliamentary Commission for the Federal Armed Forces

• Dirk Ilegems, Belgium Defence

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Session 3: Crisis response: implications for ombuds institutions

Introductory remarks by:

• Muneon Park, Korea Institute for Defence Analyses, Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of Korea