Kobe University
UNESCO Chair Education Program
2023
Participating Universities• UGM: Gadjah Mada University (UGM), Indonesia• NKUST National Kaohsiung University of Scienceand Technology (NKUST), Taiwan• Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Malaysia• School of Social Innovation, Mae Fah Luang
University (MFU), Thailand• Kobe University (KU), Japan• Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University (SMTU), Pakistan
Partner Institutions

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SCHEDULE
2 December 2023
•10:30 Opening (Dr. Ariani Arista Putri Pertiwi, UGM)

•10:45 Introduction to UNESCO Chair and topic (Professor Ronni Alexander, Kobe University)•

11:15 – 12:45 Presentations from each university: UTAR, UGM, NKUST, MFU, STMU, KU•

13:45-15:00 Panel discussion：Making Disaster Safer: A Gender and Vulnerability Approach

Facilitaor
Siriporn Wajjwalku, Professor, Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University, Bangkok. She is a former
Dean of Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University (2010-2013), and a former Dean of School of Social
Innovation, Mae Fah Luang University, in Chiangrai, Thailand (2014-2021). She is also a founder and former
President of Japanese Studies Association of Thailand (2012-2017). She holds degrees from Thammasat
University (BA in Political Science) and Nagoya University (MA and Ph. D in International Relations). Her
research interest includes Japan’s politics and foreign policy with the focus on development cooperation with
Southeast Asian countries. She is an author of Japan and Disaster Relief: Policy, Mechanism, and Actors(Chulalongkorn University Publishing House, 2019); Japan and Development Cooperation: Policy and Practice inMekong Countries (Chulalongkorn University Publishing House, 2017); Regional Cooperation and Food Security:
ASEAN Emergency Rice Reserve (Thammasat University Publishing House, 2015). She is also a co-editor ofAdvancing the Regional Commons in the New East Asia (Routledge, 2016) She was a visiting professor at SagaUniversity (2006) and Hiroshima University (2015), Japan
Panelists
Ariani Arista Putri Pertiwi, MAN., DNP. Dr. Pertiwi is currently serving as the secretary of undergraduate
nursing program at School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas GadjahMada, Indonesia. Her responsibility includes managing nursing students’ clinical rotation in the program. She
has been actively involved in humanitarian action since 2010 when the earthquake and volcano eruption
happened in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Recently during the COVID-19 pandemic, she actively organizes ahumanitarian action with alumni of her institution to help healthcare providers in clinics and hospitals in
Yogyakarta with the shortage of Personal Protective Equipment. She is also actively involved as an agent in theCOVID-19 taskforce call center conducted tracing and educating the community about COVID-19. Now she
continues helping the community in facing the pandemic in shelters and also conducting research to developinnovative measures and technologies to help patients with COVID-19 to be monitored and evaluated byhealthcare providers while they are at home or shelter.
Reni Juwitasari, researcher, Disaster Resilience and Environmental Sustainability (DRES), the Asian ResearchCenter for International Development (ARCID), School of Social Innovation, Mae Fah Luang University. She
holds an M.Ed. degree in Educational Administration from the Faculty of Education, Mahasarakham University(Thailand). She has published several book chapters, academic journals, and articles on Disaster, Education,and Traditional Knowledge related to Sustainable Development and Sustainability in Global South. She is now
working on her research topic about community resilience, education for sustainable development (ESD) andsustainability (EFS) and local knowledge for disaster and climate change under Sumitomo Foundation, JSPS,MFU Research Fund and UNESCO-Chair (Kobe).
Dr. Yuk Feng Huang ,Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering andScience, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Malaysia. He is a Professional Engineer with Practice
Certificate of the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM). He has over 20 years of experience in research, and his
research interests include water resources engineering, climate change, drought forecasting,evapotranspiration estimation, reservoir inflow forecasting, sedimentation, water quality, artificial intelligencemodelling, rainfall-runoff analysis, and other hydrological studies.
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15:00 Explanation of task (Professor Huang, UTAR)•

15:15-16:15 Group time•

16:15 Photos, Ending

SCHEDULE
3 December 2023
• Good Morning (Dr. Ariani Arista Putri Pertiwi)• Finish preparing your group presentation• Presentations (Groups 1-6)
• Comments from all• Closing ceremony (Professor Alexander)

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