Provisional Program
Global Peacebuilding Association of Japan
44th Seminar
ONLINE ZOOM CONFERENCE
29 July 2020
16:00-18:00‘’The Impact of the UN Intervention on Contemporary Kosovo’’
HE Ambassador Leon MALAZOGU

16:05 Opening by the Moderator, Arbenita Sopaj
16:10 Presentation“The Impact of UN Intervention on Contemporary Kosovo”
HE Ambassador Leon MALAZOGU (Ambassador of Kosovo in Tokyo, Japan)
16:30 Comments by GPAJ members followed by open discussion⚫

Mr. Ken INOUE, Senior Advisor on Democratic Governance, JICA⚫

Ambassador Mr. Motoo NOGUCHI, Special Counsel Iwata Godo Law Office⚫

Mr. Satoru KUROSAWA, Lecturer at Kyoritsu Women’s University

17:00 Open discussion (GPAJ-members and guests’ participants)
17:55 Concluding remarks by the moderator, Arbenita Sopaj
18:00 End of the seminar

Additional topic:
Discussion on the Occasion of the 10th Anniversary of International Court of Justice (ICJ)
Advisory Opinions and Orders Accordance with the International Law of the Unilateral
Declaration of Independence in respect of Kosovo Advisory Opinion (July 22, 2010). Link:
https://www.icj-cij.org/files/case-related/141/141-20100722-ADV-01-00-EN.pdf

HE Ambassador Leon MALAZOGU

Leon Malazogu is Ambassador Extraordinary andPlenipotentiary of the Republic of Kosovo to Japan,
and non-resident Ambassador Extraordinary andPlenipotentiary of the Republic of Kosovo to theRepublic of the Marshall Islands, the Republic ofPalau, the Federated States of Micronesia and Tuvalu.
He completed his studies at the American University
in Bulgaria and the University of Notre Dame, specializing in international relations,
governance and conflict resolution. Before taking this position, Leon ran Democracy forDevelopment Institute (D4D), a think-tank dedicated to research links between
democracy and development.
Leon has served as a Board Member of the University of Prishtina and was a part of theBalkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group set up by the University of Graz. He taught inseveral universities in Kosovo and Macedonia and was a scholar in residence at theArizona State University. Leon served as Regional Representative for the European
Centre for Minority Issues, Research Director at the Kosovar Institute for Policy Researchand Development, an adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister, and ran the Kosovo Office ofthe Princeton-based Project on Ethnic Relations. Leon has published numerous studies
on democratization and regional affairs. Follow him on twitter @malazogu
Photo by: Kageaki Smith

Mr. Ken INOUE
Ken INOUE has been working with the UN and the government
agencies for over 35 years in the fields of development
cooperation, humanitarian assistance, and peacebuilding.
His current affiliations: Academic Council on the United
Nations System (ACUNS); Amnesty International Japan;
Association of Former International Civil Servants, Japan;
Experts Group on Peacebuilding and Democracy; Global
Peacebuilding Association of Japan; Partnership for Democratic
Governance; Japan Association for the UN Studies; JapanSociety for International Development; Toyo University; UN Institute for Training andResearch (UNITAR), Peace Advisory Board. In 2013, he joined the Association (GPAJ).
He was Auditor of the Association (GPAJ) from 2016 to 2020. Senior Advisor on
Democratic Governance, Japan International Cooperation Agency (Japan) from 20152020. Independent Consultant (Japan & Morocco) 2013-2015. Director & Chief
Governance Advisor, Democratic Governance Support Unit, UN Integrated Mission in
Timor-Leste (Timor-Leste) 2007-2012. Director, Industry Department, Asian
Productivity Organization (Japan) 2001-2006. Municipal Administrator, Skendraj/Srbica
Municipality, UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (Kosovo) 1999-2001.
Programme and Trust Fund Manager, UN Volunteers (Switzerland & Germany)19941999. Regional Humanitarian Affairs Officer, Bay Region, UN Operation in Somalia II(Somalia) 1994. Deputy Provincial Director, Kandal Province and Phnom Penh Province,
UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia (Cambodia) 1991-1993. Programme Officer,
Office of the SRSG for Coordination of Kampuchea Humanitarian Assistance Programme(Thailand) 1988-1991. Junior Professional Officer, UNDP (Trinidad & Tobago) 19951998. Research Assistant, Engineering Consulting Firms Association, Japan from 19941995. Consultant, Education Division, Bureau for Asian and the Pacific Region, WorldBank (Washington DC) 1994. Board member and Representative of the 13th Group,Amnesty International Japan (Japan) 1977-1982.

He pursued his M.Phil. Development Studies from Institute of Development Studies,
University of Sussex, Sussex, U.K. (1984). B.A. Political Science from Faculty of
Political Science & Economics, University of Waseda, Tokyo, Japan (1982).
Publications:•Trend of Democratic Governance Support by Major Donor Countries andInternational Organizations and Recommendations to JICA, March 2020 (inJapanese).

•The Waseda Journal of Peace Studies Vol. 10, “Working for the UN PeacekeepingOperations” 2017 (in Japanese).

•Asian Journal of Environment and Disaster Management “The UN Support toTimor-Leste for Enhancement of a Culture of Democratic Governance” Feb 2014.

•State of Volunteer 1999/YVA “Civil Society of the 21st Century Envisaged by theInternational Year of Volunteers 2001”, Apr 1999.

•SWP 729/ World Bank “The Education and Training of Industrial Manpower inJapan” Jun 1985.

Mr. Motoo NOGUCHI
Motoo NOGUCHI became a member of the GPAJ after heretired from the Government services this March and started aprivate practice as a lawyer. He is Attorney (Special Counsel) atIWATAGODO (April 2020- Present). Retired from theGovernment services (March 2020). Ambassador forInternational Judicial Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Japan seconded from the Supreme Public Prosecutors
Office/Ministry of Justice (2018-20). Chair of the Board of Directors of the Trust Fundfor Victims at the International Criminal Court (2012-18). United Nations international
judge of the Supreme Court Chamber at Cambodia Khmer Rouge Trials(UNAKRT/ECCC, 2006-2012). Prosecutor in Japan (1985-1996). Professor at theResearch & Training Institute of the Ministry of Justice (1996-2000). Counsel at theOffice of the General Counsel of the Asian Development Bank (2000-2004). Professor atUNAFEI (2004-2012).

Attorney at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Legal Affairs Bureau (20042014). Director of International Cooperation Department of the Research & TrainingInstitute (2012-2014). Prosecutor at the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office Appeals
Divison (2014-2018). His academic training consists of: LLB from the University ofTokyo, faculty of law (1983). Graduated from the Legal Research & Training Instituteof the Supreme Court of Japan (1985). Visiting scholar at the University of Washington,
School of Law (1992-93). Visiting professional at the International Criminal Court (2005).
Visiting fellow at Yale Law School, Schell Center for International Human Rights (200607). Visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences(2009-2017).
Mr. Satoru KUROSAWA
Satoru KUROSAWA is currently Lecturer at Kyoritsu Women’s
University/ Aoyama Gakuin University. He is external memberof the consultant selection committee of JICA. From 1980-2012
he has been director of Global Issues Division, Team Leader ofMiddle East, Managing Director of Peacebuilding Office andResident Representative of Balkan office at JICA (JapanInternational Cooperation Agency). He worked at Aid PolicyDivision, Latin America Division 1 of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs (1983-84). Embassy of Japan in Bolivia (1984-86).
Programmer Adviser, Bureau for Programmer Policy and Evaluation (1988-1991). Senior
Development Adviser, Reintegration and Local Settlement Section, UNHCR (20012004) Deputy Managing Director, Sector Strategy Department, JBIC (Japan Bank forInternational Cooperation) (2006-2008) Professor, Kyoritsu Women’s University (20122020). He qualified with Master of International Economics from Aoyama Gakuin
University (1994) and University of Tokyo (Master of Science) in 1980.
Publication: 黒澤啓「難民問題に対する人道援助と開発援助の連携の現状と課題」『国際開発研究』Vol.27, No.2, 2018 年 11 月、国際開発学会. 黒澤啓、小向絵里「平和構築と良い統治」内海成治編『国際協力論を学ぶ人のために』2016、世界思想社. 黒澤啓「日本の援助外交と人間の安全保障―平和構築の観点から」佐藤誠編『人間の安全保障：世界危機への挑戦』2004、東信堂. 黒澤啓「UNHCR の平和構築に果たす役割」『立命館国際地域研究』2003 年第 21 号.