- Organized by the Tibet Forum and the Center for Modern China
- Funded in part by the National Endowment for Democracy
- Hosted by The Freedom Forum
- Online presentation hosted by Area Studies Division,
  Columbia University Libraries
- Editors' Introduction (James D. Seymour & Jeanne Marie
  Gilbert)

• Opening Remarks: Wells, Ngapo, Dharlo, Chen
• Historial Perspectives (Elliot Sperling, Moderator)
  
  
• History: Pre-1959
  • P. T. Taklha
  • Tang Daxian
  • Phintsog Dekyi
  • Discussion: Grunfeld, Norbu, et al.
    
    
• History: Recent Developments
  • Dawa Norbu (paper submitted in absentia)
  • Zhu Jiaming
  • Tsering Wangyal
  • Discussion: Lalungpa, Sperling, Dreyer, Norbu, et al
    
    

• Special Guest Speaker: Wang Ruowang
  
  
• Environmental Issues, Environmental Security
  • James D. Seymour, Moderator
  • Tsering Tsomo
  • Xue Haipei, Commentator
  • Discussion: Mirsky, Tang, Thonden, Young, et al.
    
    
• Economic Development
  • Tseten Wangchuk Sharlho
  • Wu Fan (Chris Wu), Commentator
  • Discussion: Major, Drake, Grunfeld, et al.

• Robert A. F. Thurman, Moderator
• Thubten Samphel
• Chen Kuide
• Jamyang Norbu
• Xue Haipei
• Discussion: Yuan, Aukatsang, Tang, Zhao, Pandit, et al.