Global Peacebuilding Association of Japan,
Kyoto Peacebuilding Center and ACUNS Tokyo Liaison Office
invite you to an interactive online review meeting ofA New Agenda for Peace
Saturday, 19 August 2023
21:00-22:30 Tokyo
14:00-15:30 Geneva and 8:00-9:30 New YorkFor registration, please send your name to Dr. Arbenita Sopaj,
arbenitasopaj@gmail.com
Secretary-General António Guterres presented The New Agenda for Peace on 20 July 2023 as
one of Policy Brief 9 of Our Common Agenda. The Secretary-General asserted that the policy
brief outlined an extensive and ambitious set of recommendations that recognize the interlinked
nature of many of the global challenges. Framed around the core principles of trust, solidarity,and universality that are foundational to the Charter, he presented 12 concrete sets of proposals
for action in five priority areas. This online meeting will enable the scholars and practitioners of
the UN peace operations to discuss what is “new” that is contained in the New Agenda for Peace.
This review meeting consists of two parts. In part one, an outline of the New Agenda for Peace
will be presented and followed by a critical review by a panel of knowledgeable persons. Thesecond part will be an exchange of views by all the participants.
Part IJapan time
21:00 Introduction by the organizer (Tanimoto and Arbenita Sopaj)
21:05 Opening remarks⚫

AKASHI Yasushi, Former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations andSpecial Representative of the Secretary-General to Cambodia and the FormerYugoslavia

21:10 Summary presentation of the New Agenda for Peace⚫

Mr. Renato MARIANI, Political Affairs Officer, Policy, Planning, and Mediation
Support, Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA), United Nations⚫

Robert BERG, Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center and the World Academy

of Art and Science
21:25 Comments by a panel of external discussants (five minutes each)⚫

Georgios KOSTAKOS, Executive Director of the Brussels-based Foundation for
Global Governance and Sustainability,⚫

Kerstin LEITNER, Former UN Resident Coordinator in China⚫

Peter SCHUMANN, Deputy Joint Special Representative of UNAMID in Darfur(2018), Former Resident Coordinator⚫

José Victor da Silva ANGELO (Portugal), Former Special Representative of theSecretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission in the Central African
Republic and Chad (MINURCAT)Part II
21:50 Discussion with the members of GPAJ and KPC⚫

SHINYO Takahiro, Former Japanese Ambassador to the United Nations and Germany⚫

YAMAMOTO Tadamichi, Former Special Representative of the Secretary-Generalin Afghanistan and Former Ambassador to UNESCO⚫

Vesselin POPOVSKI, Vice Dean Law School, Jindal Global University, India⚫

INOUE Ken, Former Director of Democratic Governance, UN Integrated Mission inTimor-Leste and JICA⚫

MIZUNO Mizuno, Professor, Kanda University of International Studies, Former
Chief Correspondent of Asahi Shimbun, New York⚫

KURODA Kazuhide, Former UN OCHA and World Bank Conflict Prevention andReconstruction Unit and Fragile and Conflict-Affected States Unit⚫

NAKAYAMA Akio, Former Representative of IOM in Myanmar⚫

OthersModerator: HASEGAWA Sukehiro, President of GPAJ, Director of KPC and ACUNSTokyo Liaison Office
22:45 Concluding remarks
22:50 Announcement of future events
23:00 Ends