The P&D Conference programme is organised as a **three-day working process**.
It is not built around a predetermined number of individual presentations.
The programme combines analytical materials, regional cases, technologies, field experience and project development around a central question:
**How should complex war-related environmental problems actually be investigated and addressed?**
Programme Structure
The conference programme includes several complementary formats.
Foundational Working Sessions
Discussion of the developing research architecture, including:
* the Specification for the Investigation of War-Related Environmental Contamination;* Volume I;* methodological questions;* uncertainty and attribution;* and the organisation of complex evidence.
The purpose is not simply to present these materials, but to examine, test and improve them.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews will establish the current state of knowledge and identify major gaps in areas including:
* war and soil systems;* freshwater and aquatic systems;* settlement and land-use systems;* environmental exposure and human health.
Where substantial materials are available before the conference, meeting time will be used primarily for discussion rather than for repeating the text orally.
Regional Cases
Participants connected with conflict and post-conflict regions will contribute directly to the programme.
Current work includes cases related to:
**Ukraine, Vietnam, Sudan and other affected territories.**
Regional contributions will focus on real conditions, available and missing evidence, local capacity, practical constraints and priorities for investigation.
Applied Systems & Technologies
Selected organisations will contribute technologies and practical methods relevant to:
* GIS and Earth Observation;* satellite imagery and SAR;* drones and autonomous systems;* humanitarian demining and UXO;* geophysics;* field and laboratory analysis;* water and groundwater monitoring;* environmental data systems;* remediation;* infrastructure and agricultural recovery.
Applied contributions are expected to address both **capabilities and limitations**.
Information Systems & Research Infrastructure
The programme will include working discussion of new approaches to organising complex environmental evidence.
This includes:
* the information system developed around dolphins and TCDD-related contamination;* development of the War Pollution Information System;* spatial and temporal data organisation;* relationships between evidence, hypotheses and uncertainty.
Case Labs
Case Labs are organised around **real problems and territories**, not around academic disciplines.
Possible cases include:
* environmental assessment after humanitarian demining;* contaminated agricultural land;* war-affected rivers and reservoirs;* damaged industrial sites;* historical wartime contamination.
Researchers, local organisations, companies, laboratories, engineers and technology providers may work on the same case.
The objective is to determine:
**What would an actual investigation require?**
Investigation Design Workshops
Working groups will translate selected problems into practical investigation structures.
Typical functions include:
**Detection & Mapping**
**Access & Measurement**
**Interpretation & Risk**
**Remediation & Recovery**
The emphasis is on methods, responsibilities, data requirements and remaining uncertainties.
Project Studios
Project development takes place throughout the conference and culminates in focused Project Studios.
Potential directions include:
* War Pollution Information System;* environmental assessment after mine clearance;* Ukraine field investigations;* long-term wartime contamination in Vietnam;* environmental baseline development in Sudan;* freshwater and sediment projects;* comparative conflict-environment studies.
Project Studios are intended to identify:
**the problem, territory, evidence, missing data, methods, local partners, technology partners, implementation capacity, possible financing and next steps.**
Three-Day Progression
The overall programme follows a simple sequence:
Day 1. **What do we actually know?**
Day 2 **How would we actually investigate it?**
Day 3. **What are we going to build?**
Detailed schedules and individual working sessions are provided on the relevant programme pages.
Contributions and Materials
A contribution does not need to take the form of a conventional oral presentation.
Programme materials may include:
* full papers;* Critical Reviews;* analytical briefs;* regional cases;* datasets;* maps;* technical demonstrations;* e-Posters;* project concepts;* methodological notes;* and pre-conference materials.
Where possible, substantial materials will be available before the meeting so that conference time can be used for discussion, criticism, design and cooperation.
Current Programme Status
The programme is under active development.
Sessions will be confirmed progressively as:
* the Specification and Critical Reviews become available;* regional cases are defined;* companies and applied organisations join specific problem areas;* Case Labs are assembled;* and potential projects emerge.
The programme will therefore remain flexible.
Prague, 15–17 October 2026
Real territories. Real evidence. Real uncertainty. Real cooperation.