Deputy Director of the Research Center for Sustainable Peace, Dr. Ai Kihara-Hunt, will hold a seminar with her co-researcher Dr. Marsha Henry (London School of Economics) on the reasons behind the UN’s struggle to mitigate sexual exploitation and abuse. It will focus on the assumptions that the UN is making in designing the structure, deployment and training from social behavioural science perspectives.

This seminar is part of a Humanities Center’s project, which includes a Round Table in September 2019 with the UN, host and contributing States representatives, experts, think tanks and NGOs.

Date and Time: 17:00-19:00, 12 April 2019 (Fri)

Place: Meeting Room 1, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia,  Hongo Campus, the University of Tokyo

Speakers: Dr. Marsha Henry, LSE; Dr. Ai Kihara-Hunt, the University of Tokyo

Seminar language: English

All welcome. No entrance fee. No prior registration required.

https://hmc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/open-seminar/2019/un-peace-operation-background/