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Tokyo Peacebuilding Forum 2022
5 November 2022
Organized by
Global Peacebuilding Association of Japan
Supported by
Kyoto Peacebuilding Center and ACUNS Tokyo Liaison Office

General Theme
Unforeseen Consequences of the War in Ukraine
Date: Saturday, 5 November, 2022
Time: 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m. （Japan Standard Time）
Hybrid Conference: JICA Ichigaya Building (JICA Global Plaza)https://www.jica.go.jp/hiroba/english/location/index.html
Registration: For participation, please register through the following link by Friday 4 November,
18:00
https://forms.gle/5t7xL9R46dEtnyCR7
For any question, please contact the organizer at GPAJTPF2022@gmail.com

Time Schedule (Japan Standard Time)
Opening
10:00 – 10:10

Opening introductory remarks and explanation of the process
Naoko KUMAGAI, Master of Ceremony
Vice President, Global Peacebuilding Association of Japan

10:10 – 10:15

Introductory remarks
Yasushi AKASHI
Former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations

Morning Session
10:15 – 12:00

Session I (Language: English)
Panel Title: Need and Prospects for Reforming the United Nations
Security Council

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Presentation:
Takahiro SHINYO, Former Ambassador to the United Nations; Professor and Dean, Integrated
Center for UN and Foreign Affairs Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University
Panel discussion:
Kaitarō NOMUMURA, Director at the United Nations Policy Division, Foreign Policy Bureau,
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
Lise Morjé HOWARD, Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown
University; President of Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS)
Heung S. PARK, Professor and former dean of the graduate school, SunMoon University, Korea.
Vesselin POPOVSKI, Founding Executive Director of Centre for UN Studies and Vice Dean of
Jindal Global Law School, India
Moderator:
HASEGAWA Sukehiro, President GPAJ and Director KPC and ACUNS Tokyo Liaison Office
12:00

End of Session I

Afternoon Sessions
12:50―13:00

Explanation of the afternoon session

KUMAGAI Naoko, Vice President GPAJ

13:00 – 14:30

Session II (Language: Japanese) *For Japanese introduction, pleaserefer to page 4.
Panel Title: Critical assessment of Japan`s policy on refugees and migrants
Presentations:
Akio NAKAYAMA, Former Country Director, IOM Myanmar “Refugees and Humanitarian
Migration Policy of Japan”
Khadiza BEGUM, Area coordinator of “Online learning support for Rohingya children in
Tatebayashi City”“Challenges of Myanmar Muslim women in Japan”
Moderator: Ken INOUE, Vice President, Global Peacebuilding Association of Japan2

14:45 – 16:15

Session III (Language: English)

Panel Title: Democratic Governance in Non-Western Context
Presentations:
Halima ABDEEN, Senior Analyst, Sudan, Senior Program Officer, Sudan Office, Japan
International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
Koji SAKANE, Chief Representative, JICA Sudan Office
Panel Discussion:
Mitsugi ENDO, Professor, Tokyo University; Vice President, Japan Association of International
Relations
Kan Hiroshi SATO, Chief Senior Researcher, Institute of Developing Economies (IDE), Japan
External Trade Organization (JETRO) / Representative of Japan, Global Development
Network

16:30-17:30

Keynote Speech (Language: English)

Title: Technology and interstate conflict
Speaker: Professor Tshilidzi MARWALA, Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of
Johannesburg, and Rector-Designate, United Nations University
Panel Discussion:
Sukehiro HASEGAWA, President of GPAJ

17:30 – 18:30

Session IV (Language: English)

Panel Title: Adaptative Peacebuilding
Presentation:
Cedric de CONING, Research Professor with the Peace, Conflict and Development ResearchGroup at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Panel Discussion:
Elizabeth (Liz) HUME, Executive Director at the Alliance for Peacebuilding
Ken INOUE, Vice President, Global Peacebuilding Association of Japan (GPAJ)
Moderator: Arbenita SOPAJ, Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate School of International
Cooperation Studies (GSICS), Kobe University
18:30

Closing remarks: Naoko KUMAGAI, Vice President, GPAJ

＊日本語開催パネル
13:00 – 14:30 セッション II

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パネルタイトル：日本の難民移民政策の現状と課題発表：
中山暁雄 前国際移住機関ミャンマー事務所長、GPAJ 難民危機研究会共同代表「日本の難民移民政策」
カディザ・ベグム 館林市ロヒンギャ子供たちのオンライン学習支援 エリアコーディネーター「日本在住ムスリムミャンマー人女性の現状と課題」
モデレーター：井上健

日本平和構築協会副理事長、GPAJ 難民危機研究会共同代表

4List of Participants (in order of appearance)
Ambassador Yasushi AKASHI
Ambassador Akashi graduated from the University of Tokyo in
1954. As a Fulbright Scholar, he studied at the University ofVirginia and later at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He
joined the United Nations Secretariat in 1957 and held numerous
positions in the UN. After serving as Ambassador at the Permanent
Mission of Japan to the United Nations, he was appointed as UN
Under-Secretary-General for Public Information and later for
Disarmament Affairs, Special Representative of the SecretaryGeneral for Cambodia and then for the Former Yugoslavia, and thenUnder Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs until the end of 1997. He is currently Chairmanof the Kyoto International Conference Center and Vice- President of the United Nations
Association of Japan.

Dr. Takahiro SHINYO
Dr. Shinyo studied law at Osaka University and joined the Japanese
Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1972. In 1973 he enrolled at the
University of Göttingen in Germany and studied international law for
two years. He served at the Japanese Embassies in Switzerland, China,
and Germany. In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he served as Directorof the Disarmament Division and of UN Policy Division. In 1999 hebecame Deputy Director-General of the European Affairs Bureau.
After serving as Director-General of the Multilateral Cooperation
Department he was appointed as Ambassador and DPR of thePermanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations and finally Ambassador to the Federal
Republic of Germany. He retired from the Ministry in 2012 and assumed the post of VicePresident International of Kwansei Gakuin University (2012-2018). Dr. Shinyo is the author ofmany books on the UN and Foreign Policy in the Japanese language. One of his books wastranslated into German and published under the title “Japans aussenpolitische Strategie in einer
multipolaren Welt”, IUDICIUM Verlag, 2015. He speaks Japanese, English, German, andChinese(basic). Since 2013, Dr. SHINYO is the Chairman of the Board of NPO “Malaria No
More Japan”.

5Mr. NONOMURA Kaitarō
NONOMURA Kaitarō is Director at the United Nations
Policy Division in the Foreign Policy Bureau of the Ministryof Foreign Affairs of Japan (MOFA). Since he joined the
MOFA in 1998, he has engaged in diverse assignments inTokyo, New York, and Beijing. Among them include
Principal Deputy Director at the Treaties Division, Executive
Assistant to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Counsellor at
the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations, andCounsellor at the Embassy of Japan in the People’s Republic of China. He obtained his
B.A. in Political Science from Waseda University.

Dr. Lise Morjé HOWARD
Dr. Lise Morjé Howard is President of ACUNS and Professor ofGovernment and Foreign Service at Georgetown University. For the2022-23 academic year, she is serving as Senior Scholar in Residence
at the U.S. Institute of peace. She became a member of ACUNS morethan 20 years ago and has since served in a variety of positions in
ACUNS, including as Executive Board Member from 2011-2014.
Howard has published articles on UN peacekeeping, the UN Security
Council, civil war termination, and American foreign policy in the top journals in her field. Her
first book, UN Peacekeeping in Civil Wars (Cambridge UP 2008) won the ACUNS Book Awardfor the best book on the UN system published in the previous three years. Her recent book, Powerin Peacekeeping (Cambridge UP 2019), won the International Security Studies book award fromthe International Studies Association. A dual national of the U.S. and France, Howard earned her
M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and her A.B. in
Soviet Studies from Barnard College, Columbia University.

6Dr. Heung-Soon PARK
Heung-Soon Park is a professor and former dean of the graduate
school, SunMoon University, Korea. Professor Park was the presidentof several academic associations in Korea, including the Korean
Academic Council on the United Nations System. He currently serves
as vice-president of the UNA-ROK, a member of the UNESCOKorean Commission, and a policy advisor to the Korean Ministry ofForeign Affairs. Professor Park is a founding member of the East
Asian UN networks, a trilateral 1.5 track among China, Japan, andKorea, such as the Conference of the UN Associations (UNAs), and Youth Forum (college
students) respectively. Professor Park has published several books and articles that include “EastAsia and the Role of the UN” (2018), “Multinational Approaches to the Korean Impasse” (2016),“AIIB and China’s Policy & Strategies” (2016), UN, Multilateral Diplomacy, and Korean Foreign
Policy (2015). Professor Park holds a Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina (1993) and
LLB from Kyunghyang University, Korea.

Dr. Vesselin POPOVSKI
Dr. Vesselin Popovski, Founding Executive Director of Centre for
UN Studies and Vice Dean of Jindal Global Law School. In 20042014 Senior Academic Officer, Head of ‘Peace and Governance’
Programme at UNU, Tokyo. Prior to that Co-Director of EU project‘Legal Protection of Individual Rights in Russia’ and AssistantProfessor, Exeter University, UK. Ph.D. King’s College London;
M.Sc. London School of Economics; B.A./M.A. Moscow Instituteof International Affairs. Over twenty books, among them ReImagination of International Legal Order (2023); Fulfilling theSDGs (2021); Global Approaches to Peace (2019); Implementation of Paris Agreement on
Climate Change (2018); Emotions in International Politics (2016); Security Council as Global
Legislator (2014); International Rule of Law and Professional Ethics (2014); Legality andLegitimacy in Global Affairs (2012); World Religions and Norms of War (2009); International
Criminal Accountability and Child Rights (2006). Co- writer of ‘Declaration on the Right toInternational Solidarity’ (2021); ‘Responsibility to Protect’ ICISS Report (2001); ‘Princeton
Principles of Universal Jurisdiction’ (2000). Bulgarian Ex- Diplomat.

7Dr. Sukehiro HASEGAWA
Dr. Hasegawa is distinguished Professor at Kyoto University of theArts. Former Special Representative of the Secretary-General of theUnited Nations for Timor-Leste (2004-2006). He spent 37 years with
the UN and served as UN Resident Coordinator in the South Pacific(1985-86), Rwanda (1995-96), and Timor-Leste (2002-2006). Deputy
Executive Coordinator of the UN Volunteers in Geneva (1987-93),
Manager of the UNV Electoral Officers in Cambodia (1993), andDirector of Policy and Planning, UNOSOM II (1994). Deputy
Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Pacific at UNDP New York(1096-99). Currently President, Global Peacebuilding Association of Japan (GPAJ), Director,
ACUNS Tokyo Liaison Office, Director of the Kyoto Peacebuilding Center, and Executive
Director for Academic Exchange, UN Association of Japan. BA from the University of Michigan,
MA from the ICU in Tokyo, and Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, USA. Professor,
Hosei University (2007-15), Visiting Professor, UN University (2007-15).

Mr. Akio NAKAYAMA
Mr. Nakayama obtained the degree of Master of Arts in International
Relations at Australian National University (ANU). He started his
international civil service at the International Organization for
Migration (IOM) in 1996. He was first assigned to the IOM country
office in the Philippines as JPO. His assignments in IOM included
humanitarian assistance and peace- building activities in former
Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and most recently in Myanmar. In particular,
he led initiatives to address crisis-driven human mobility, including
human trafficking, in conflict-affected areas in Myanmar. He also
served as IOM’s Country Director in Japan from 2005 to 2010. During this assignment, he assisted
response to migration challenges Japan faced including the preparation of a pilot refugee
resettlement project for Myanmar refugees. He was assigned to IOM Geneva as Senior Regional
Adviser for Asia in 2010, and IOM Myanmar as Country Director in 2017. He retired from IOM
in 2021.

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Ms. Begum KHADIZA
Ms. Khadiza Begum is a prominent leader of the Rohingya
women’s community in Japan. She came to Japan as a refugee in2006 and got higher education at Aoyama Gakuin University.
After graduation, she worked at a Japanese company UNIQLO
for 9 years. Then, she was admitted to the Graduate School of
Waseda University. She has been actively supporting Rohingya
women and children in Tatebayashi. Based on her experience shewill talk about the background of Rohingya people and thechallenges they are facing in Japan.

Mr. Ken INOUE
Mr. Inoue has been working for more than 40 years in the field ofinternational cooperation including development cooperation,
humanitarian assistance and peacebuilding. Specialized in UN
Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Operations and democratic
governance. At present, Representative of Institute of Personal
Governance (2021-) and Member of Advisory Board of UN Institutefor Training and Research (UNITAR) on Peace Operations. Served
as Senior Advisor on Democratic Governance, JICA (2015- 2020),
Chief Governance Advisor, UN PKO mission in Timor- Leste(2007-2012), Director, Asian Productivity Organization (2001-2006), Municipal Administrator,
UN PKO mission in Kosovo (1999-2001), Programme and Trust Fund Manager, UN Volunteers(1994-1999), Regional Humanitarian Affairs Officer, UN PKO mission in Somalia (1994),
Deputy Provincial Director, UN PKO mission in Cambodia (1991-1993), and Programme Office,
Office of the UN-SRSG for Coordination of Cambodia Humanitarian Assistance Programme.
Also worked with UNDP and World Bank. Teaching at Toyo University, Dokkyo University,
Kyoto Women’s University, Oberlin University, Soka University, Japan-Vietnam University, etc.

9Ms. Abdeen HALIMA
Ms. Abdeen is policy analyst and senior program office at Sudan
Office of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). She wasborn on March 1980 in Sudan. She holds a bachelor’s degree in arts,
with high diploma in Education. She has long experiences in the
Project Management and Peacebuilding field with national andinternational organization. She has served as Senior Program
Officer, JICA Sudan Office in charge of Planning, Political affairs,
Environment &Health (From Feb 2011 up to date). She worked asa Program Assistant, German Development Service (DED), she has
involved in the activities of the civic education, election and peace-building sector for Sudan andSouth Sudan (From August 2008 up to Feb 2011). She has worked as program assistant to support
Practical Action peace activities in war conflict areas in Kassala State and Darfur States (14thApril 2007 until 15th April 2008). She is a social advocate; she aids in the translation of thegovernment systems in Sudan by supporting the resistance committees in their efforts ofimplementation democracy and rule of law.

Mr. Koji SAKANE
Mr. Sakane is Chief Representative of JICA Sudan office since
February 2021. Before this post, he served as Senior Director of
JICA Peacebuilding Office (2017-2021). 30-years of professional
experiences on peacebuilding and development. His career
includes Deputy Chief Secretary at President Office (2014-2017),
Director for Planning and ASEAN Coordination (2011-2014) andDirector for Cambodia (2010-2011). Field experiences include
Indonesia (2006-2010) and Cambodia (1994-1996). Served at
Permanent Mission of Japan to UN (2001-2003). Board Memberof Global Peace Association of Japan (GPAJ) and an author of International Information Network
Analysis (IINA), The Sasakawa Peace Foundation. Obtained master’s degree on Conflict
Resolution at Bradford University (2000), and bachelor’s degree on Political Science at Waseda
University (1991). Recent Publications: Russia's invasion of Ukraine accelerates Africa's
departure from the West | List of Articles | International Information Network Analysis | SPF “Eraof Coups” in Africa (Part 2): Containing the Spread of Coups | List of Articles | International
Information Network Analysis | SPF “Era of Coups” in Africa (Part 1): The Emergence of Russia
and China amid the Decline of the West etc.

10Dr. Mitsugi ENDO
Prof. Endo (DPhil) is Professor of Graduate School of Arts andSciences at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He is also director of
Department of Advanced Social and International Studies at theGraduate School. He is specialized in comparative politics focusing
on transformation of political regime in contemporary Sub-SaharanAfrica and changing international relations recently focusing on thegreater Horn of Africa. His major works include African Politics ofSurvival: Extraversion and Informality in Contemporary World,
Langaa Rpcig (co- editor 2021), Collapsed States and International
Security: Experiences of Somalia and New Sovereign Statehood Tokyo: Yuhikaku (2015 in
Japanese).

Professor SATO Kan Hiroshi
Prof. Hiroshi is the Chief Senior Researcher, Institute ofDeveloping Economies (IDE-JETRO). After graduated from
University of Tokyo in 1981, he has been serves IDE as adevelopment sociologist focusing on social impacts ofdevelopment aid projects in Global South. He has edited several
books covering variety of topics on development aid, such associal capital, community organizations, empowerment, andparticipatory development. He also served as advisor and/or
evaluator for Japanese ODA projects related to Social
Development in Asia, Africa, Laten America countries. As an
are study specialist, he has been focusing on Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the Middle
East where he stayed 5years. Yemeni people is also one of the victim of unnecessary conflictcreated by the outsiders. Thirdly, he turned back his research interest into Japan where “rural revitalization” has become critical in post-affluent and aging stage of modernization. Combining
those interests and UN agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), his researchconcern is now on the Public and Private Partnership (PPP) for development and peace building.
The potential of private sector is huge, but it only function when collaborations with public sectors(UN organizations, national/ local governments, and their public enterprises) along with civilsociety organization are succeeded.

11Ms. Professor Tshilidzi MARWALA
Professor.

Marwalaisanaccomplishedscholarwithmultidisciplinary research interests that include the theory andapplication of artificial intelligence to engineering, computerscience, finance, social science and medicine. He has an extensive
track record in human capacity development and has published 23
books on artificial intelligence. Professor Marwala is the Vicechancellor and Principal of the University of Johannesburg andbefore that he was the Deputy Vice-chancellor for Research andInternationalization and Executive Dean of Engineering and the Built Environment, both at the
University of Johannesburg. He is the Chair of the Africa Health Research Institute, a member of
the Namibian 4IR Task Team and trustee of the Nelson Mandela Foundation.

Dr. Cedric de CONING
Professor. Cedric de Coning is a research professor at the Center
on UN and Global Governance at the Norwegian Institute ofInternational Affairs (NUPI), where he coordinates theEffectiveness of Peace Operations Network (EPON). He is also asenior advisor for the African Centre for the Constructive
Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD), based in Durban. He hasserved in various capacities for the African Union and United
Nations, including as advisor to the head of the AU’s Peace
Support Operations Division, and on the UN Secretary- General’s
Advisory Board for the Peacebuilding Fund. He has co-edited 9 books, including ‘UN
Peacekeeping Doctrine in a New Era’ (Routledge, 2017) and ‘UN Peace Operations in a
Changing Global Order’ (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019). His most recent co-edited book, the resultof a collaboration with the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA), is ‘Adaptive
Mediation and Conflict Resolution: Peace-making in Colombia, Mozambique, the Philippines,
and Syria’ (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022).

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Ms. Elizabeth (Liz) HUME
Ms. Elizabeth (Liz) Hume is the Executive Director at the
Alliance for Peacebuilding. She is a conflict expert and has morethan 20 years of experience in senior leadership positions inbilateral, multilateral institutions and NGOs. She has extensive
experience in policy and advocacy and overseeing sizeable andcomplex peacebuilding programs in conflict-affected and fragile
states in Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa.

From 1997-2001, Liz

was seconded by the US Department of State to the Organizationfor Security and Cooperation (OSCE) in Bosnia and Herzegovina
and in Kosovo as the Chief Legal Counsel and Head of the Election Commission Secretariats. In
these positions, she was responsible for developing the legal framework and policies in supportof the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords and UN Resolution 1244. After 9/11, Lizworked for the International Rescue Committee in Pakistan and Afghanistan where sheestablished and managed the Protection Department for Afghan refugees and returning IDPs.

Ms. Arbenita SOPAJ
Ms. Sopaj is a Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate School ofInternational Cooperation Studies (GSICS), Kobe University. She
obtained a dual BA and MA degree in International Relations andAmerican Studies from College ISPE and Dardania College,
Kosovo in 2017. She is currently an External Liaison Officer at
Global Peacebuilding Association Japan (GPAJ), Kyoto
Peacebuilding Centre (KPC), and the Academic Council on the
United Nations System (ACUNS), Tokyo. She also is a lecturer
and coordinator of the International Relations Office at Dardania
College and a researcher at the Research Institute for Indo- Pacific Affairs (RIIPA).

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