Description:

  In October 2024, "The Future of Peacekeeping, New Models and Related Capabilities" was launched by the Independent Study Team (El-Ghassim Wang, Paul Williams and Ai Kihara Hunt), commissioned by the UN Department of Peace Operations, initiated by Germany, the host of the UN Peacekeeping Operations Ministerial Conference to be held on 13-14 May 2025. Research Center for Sustainable Peace translated the Study into Japanese. 

  This seminar is a launch event for the Japanese version of the Independent Study, and will have Mr. El-Gassim Wane, team leader of the Study team, and Professor Kihara-Hunt, author of the Study and responsible for the Japanese translation, as well as comments by experts and participants and a Q&A session.

If you are interested, please register through the link below.

 https://forms.gle/xpVBQW8aWvg2pPdh7

Date: 9 May (Fri), 2025, 9:30 - 11:30

Venue: Komaba Campus, The University of Tokyo; or Online

Lecturers:

 Mr. Toru Morikawa (Director General of the Secretariat of the International Peace Cooperation Headquarters, Cabinet Office)

 Mr. El-Ghassim Wane（Former Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of MINUSMA）

 Prof. Ai Kihara-Hunt (Professor, Graduate Program on Human Security (HSP), the University of Tokyo)

 Dir. Kaoru Nemoto (Director, United Nations Information Center in Tokyo)

 Mr. Ippeita Nishida (Senior Research Fellow, Sasakawa Peace Foundation)

Language: Japanese (English speaker's speech will be translated into Japanese)