{"id":14694,"date":"2016-10-18T21:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/?p=14694"},"modified":"2016-12-23T14:47:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T05:47:43","slug":"former-un-ambassador-yoshikawa-will-address-the-challenges-faced-by-the-united-nations-at-gpa-seminar-to-be-held-at-jica-headquarters-on-november-12-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/archives\/14694","title":{"rendered":"Former Japanese Ambassador Yoshikawa to the United Nations will address the challenges faced by the United Nations at Next GPA Seminar (November 12, 2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><figure id=\"attachment_14701\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14701\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/161018_05.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[14694]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/161018_05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14701\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/161018_05.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/161018_05-448x336.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<div align=\"right\">(Source: www.naplesherald.com)<\/div>\n<p><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/center><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u3000The 22nd Seminar of the Global Peacebuilding Association (GPA) will be held at JICA Headquarters on November 12, 2016. Interested GPA members are invited to register with GPA Secretary-General Professor Katsumi Ishizuka: <u><strong><em><a href=\"mailto:ishizuka@kyoei.ac.jp?subject=Application for the 22nd seminar of GPA&#038;body=Thank you for your application. Please tell us your name and affiliation.\" title=\"Application for the 22nd seminar of GPA\" target=\"_blank\">ishizuka@kyoei.ac.jp<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/u> by November 1st. Please click <u><strong><a href=\"#program\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/u> for the full program.<br clear=\"all\" \/><br clear=\"all\" \/><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:11pt;\"><center>**************************************************************************************************************<\/center><\/div>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><br \/>\n<center><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:13pt;\">Global Peacebuilding Association of Japan<\/br><u>22nd Seminar<\/div>\n<p><\/u><\/center><\/br><br \/>\n<a name=\"program\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:12pt;\">\n\u3000\u3000Date: 15:00-18:00, November 12, 2016<br \/>\n\u3000\u3000Venue: <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jica.go.jp\/about\/structure\/hq.html\" title=\"JICA Headquarters\" target=\"_blank\">JICA Headquarters<\/a><\/u>, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo\n<\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/br><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:11pt;\">\n\u3000\u300014:45 Registration<br \/>\n\u3000\u300015:00 Reports by GPA members<br \/>\n\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000[Moderator: Katsumi Ishizuka, Secretary-General of GPA]<\/p>\n<p>\u3000\u3000\u3000\u300015:00-15:30\u3000\u201c<strong>Challenges faced by the Peace Process in South Sudan<\/strong>\u201d<br \/>\n\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000Professor Daisaku Higashi, Sophia University<br \/>\n\u3000<br \/>\n\u3000\u3000\u3000\u300015:30-16:00\u3000\u201c<strong>Rwanda&#8217;s Path to Rehabilitation and Reconstruction after Genocide:<\/br>\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000Achievement of Governance Reform and Facing Future Challenges<\/strong>\u201d<br \/>\n\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000Professor Eiji Oyamada, Doshisha University<\/p>\n<p>\u3000\u300016:00 Short recess<br \/>\n\u3000\u300016:10 Keynote Speech and Discussion<br \/>\n\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000[Moderator: Sukehiro Hasegawa, President of GPA]<\/p>\n<p>\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u201c<strong>Challenges faced by the United Nations<\/strong>\u201d<br \/>\n\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000 \u3000\u3000\tFormer Japanese Ambassador Motohide Yoshikawa<br \/>\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000 to the United Nations<\/p>\n<p>\u3000\u300018:00 End<\/p>\n<p><center>**************************************************************************************************************<\/center><\/div>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><br clear=\"all\" \/><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" frame=\"void\" rules=\"none\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div style=\"font-size:13pt;\" align=\"center\">Profile of Mr. Motohide Yoshikawa<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"font-size:11pt;\">\n<\/br>\u3000Former Ambassador <strong><u>Motohide YOSHIKAWA<\/u><\/strong> served as Permanent Representatives of Japan to the United Nations from September 2013 to June 2016. Before his assignment in New York, Ambassador Yoshikawa was Permanent Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, where he served as Chair of the Executive Committee for two and a half years.  Previously, he was named Japan\u2019s first Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, a position he held from 2009 to 2010.  He was also Ambassador to Spain from 2006 to 2009. He held various positions at Japan\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, serving as Director-General of the Middle Eastern and African Affairs Bureau from 2004 to 2006, and Deputy Director-General of the Economic Cooperation Bureau from 2002.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u3000The 22nd Seminar of the Global Peacebuilding Association (GPA) will be held at JICA Headquarters on November 12, 2016. Interested GPA members are invited to register with GPA Secretary-General Professor Katsumi Ishizuka: <u><strong><em><a href=\"mailto:ishizuka@kyoei.ac.jp?subject=Application for the 22nd seminar of GPA&#038;body=Thank you for your application. Please tell us your name and affiliation.\" title=\"Application for the 22nd seminar of GPA\" target=\"_blank\">ishizuka@kyoei.ac.jp<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/u> by November 1st. Please click <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/archives\/14694\">here<\/a><\/strong> for the full program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gpaj","category-praj2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14694"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14720,"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14694\/revisions\/14720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}