{"id":15524,"date":"2017-10-16T23:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/?p=15524"},"modified":"2017-12-14T15:28:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T06:28:23","slug":"former-un-under-secretary-general-yasushi-akashi-will-open-the-first-annual-meeting-of-the-global-peacebuilding-association-of-japan-at-tokyo-university-komaba-campus-on-2-december-2017-16102017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/archives\/15524","title":{"rendered":"Former UN Under-Secretary-General Yasushi Akashi will open the first Annual Meeting of the Global Peacebuilding Association of Japan at Tokyo University Komaba Campus on 2 December 2017 (16\/10\/2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u3000Ambassador Yoshifumi Okamura, Representative of the Government of Japan for the International Peace and Stability, will deliver the keynote speech on \u201cNew Challenges for Peace Operations in Africa\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/171016_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15526\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/171016_01.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/171016_01-314x235.jpg 314w, http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/171016_01-448x336.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/center><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u3000Mr. Yasushi Akashi, former Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator and former Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Cambodia and former Yugoslavia will make opening remarks. Ambassador Yoshifumi Okamura, Representative of the Government of Japan for the International Peace and Stability will deliver the keynote speech on the new challenges for peace operations in Africa at the annual general meeting of the Global Peacebuilding Association of Japan. This first annual meeting will be held at the Komaba Campus of the University of Tokyo in Shibuya City, Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/171016_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15527\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/171016_02.jpg 448w, http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/171016_02-314x235.jpg 314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/center><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" type=\"font-size:12pt;\">Global Peacebuilding Association of Japan<\/br>Annual Meeting<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\" type=\"font-size:11pt;\">2 December 2017<\/br><\/br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/info\/about\/visitors\/maps-directions\/campus_map_2017.07.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tokyo University Komaba Campus<\/br>Building 18, 4F<\/a><\/br><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/WKK5yggSzmF2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku<\/br>Tokyo 153-8902, Japan<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" type=\"font-size:15pt;\"><strong>Changing Nature of Peacebuilding: Roles of the International Community and Japan<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<div align=\"right\" type=\"font-size:11pt;\">MC: Professor Kihara-Hunt Ai, University of Tokyo<\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/br><\/p>\n<p>10:00-10:30 Opening Sessions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li type=\"square\">Professor Yasunobu Sato<\/br>Director, Sustainable Peace Research Center, Tokyo University<\/li>\n<li type=\"square\">Mr. Yasushi Akashi<\/br>Former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Cambodia and former Yugoslavia<\/li>\n<li type=\"square\">Professor Sukehiro Hasegawa<\/br>President, Global Peacebuilding Association of Japan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>10:30-12:00 Plenary Session<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li type=\"square\">Mr. Yoshifumi Okamura, Representative of the Government of Japan for the International Peace and Stability<\/br>Keynote speech on \u201cNew Challenges for UN Peace Operations in Africa\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>12:00-13:00 Lunch<br \/>\n13:00-16:15 Working Group Sessions<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:3em\">13:00-14:30<\/br><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li value=\"1\">Changing Nature of UN Peace Operations (Room 1)<\/li>\n<li value=\"2\">Rule of Law in UN Peace Operations (Room 4)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"padding-left:3em\">14:45-16:15<\/br><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li value=\"3\">Regional Peace Operation: Directions and Policies (Room 1)<\/li>\n<li value=\"4\">Conditions for Peacebuilding (Room 4)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>16:30\u201317:30 Plenary Session<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:3em\">Reporting of the outcome of the working group<\/p>\n<p>17:30-17:40 Closing remarks<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:3em\">President, Global Peacebuilding Association of Japan<\/p>\n<p>17:40-17:45 Administrative announcement<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:3em\">GPAJ Deputy-Secretary-General Masakuni Tanimoto<\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/br><\/p>\n<p>\u3000If you are interested in participating in the annual meeting of GPAJ, please send your name, functional title and contact e-mail address to Professor Kihara-Hun Ai, <strong>kihara-hunt[@]gpaj.org<\/strong> by 20 November 2017. Presenters and comments may be made in either Japanese or English. No simultaneous interpretation will be provided.<\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u3000Ambassador Yoshifumi Okamura, Representative of the Government of Japan for the International Peace and Stability, will deliver the keynote speech on \u201cNew Challenges for Peace Operations in Africa\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gpaj2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15524","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=15524"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15769,"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15524\/revisions\/15769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}