Program

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2023 Year

KIM DAE JUNG PEACE FORUM 2023

Time International Academic Conference Day 1 (Thursday, October 5, 2023)
10:00–11:00 Registration & Admission
11:00–12:00 Opening Ceremony
Opening Remarks / Congratulatory Speeches & Welcome Addresses / Opening Address
• Opening Remarks
Kim Sung‑jae (Executive Director, Kim Dae‑jung Peace Center)
• Welcome Addresses
Park Hong‑ryul (Mayor of Mokpo)
Park Woo‑ryang (Governor of Sinan County)
• Congratulatory Speeches
Anthony Giddens (Honorary Professor, LSE; Former Professor, University of Cambridge)
Kathleen Stephens (Former U.S. Ambassador to Korea)
Seo Dong‑wook (Chair, Jeollanam‑do Provincial Council)
Denny Tamaki (Governor of Okinawa Prefecture)
• Opening Address
Kim Yung‑rok (Governor of Jeollanam‑do)
13:30–14:30 Keynote Address
Global Responsibility and Global Peace
Kailash Satyarthi (Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 2014)
Mike Magee (President, Minerva University)
14:30–15:30 Session 1
Addressing the Climate & Disease Crisis: Civilizational Transformation for Coexistence of Nature and Peace
Chair:
Moderator
Kahng Hyung-yeel
(Professor, Sunchon National University)
Kim Myung-ja (Chairperson, KAIST)
Akeem Ali (Head of Office, WHO Asia-Pacific Centre for Environment and Health in the Western Pacific Region)
15:45–16:45 Session 2
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Future of Humanity
Chair:
Moderator
Kim Kyung-baek
(Professor, Chonnam National University)
Oh Se-jung (Former President of Seoul National University)
Andrea Bianchi (Professor, KAIST)
16:45–17:45 Session 3
Establishing International Cooperation Frameworks for Science and Technology for Peace
Chair:
Moderator
Cho Sook-kyoung
(Professor, Korea Institute of Energy Technology)
Rachel Bronson (President and CEO, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
Park Sang-ook (Professor, Seoul National University)
Time International Academic Conference Day 2 (Friday, October 6, 2023)
09:00–10:00 Registration & Admission
10:00–11:00 Session 4
Exploring a New Cold War and Global Peace Regime
Chair:
Moderator
Paik Haksoon
(President, Academy of Kim Dae-jung Studies)
Cho Hyun (Former Korean Ambassador to the United Nations)
James Lindsay (Senior Vice President, Council on Foreign Relations)
11:00–12:00 Session 5
Peaceful Cooperation on Neo‑Nationalism and Economic & Trade Issues
Chair:
Moderator
Choi Dong-oh
(Professor, Mokpo National University)
Cheong In-kyo (President, Korea Security Agency for Trade and Industry (KOSTI))
Edward Mansfield (Director, Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics, University of Pennsylvania)
13:30–14:30 Session 6
Addressing the Food & Energy Crisis in the New Cold War
Chair:
Moderator
Rim Chun-taek
(Professor, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology)
Han Doo-bong (President, Korea Rural Economic Institute)
Peter Jang (Professor, Korea Institute of Energy Technology)
14:30–15:30 Session 7
Korean Peninsula Peace: A Changed World, a New Peace Paradigm
Chair:
Moderator
Jung Se-hyeon
(Former Minister of Unification of Korea)
Robert Einhorn (Former Assistant Secretary of U.S. State Department)
Kim Dong-jin (Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College Dublin)
15:45–17:10 Round Table
Youth, Future, Peace: Responsibilities and Roles of the Youth
Chair:
Moderator
Kim Jong-dae
(CEO, Rēgeneration)
Nirinthorn Mesupnikom (Researcher, Thammasat University, Thailand)
Lydia Winyi Kembabazi (Activist, Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA))
Marta Bocharnikova (Ph.D. Candidate, National Research Tomsk State University / KOTRA Moscow)
Michele Borcherding (LL.B, Graduate Student, Free University of Berlin)
Cho Eun-young (Ph.D. Candidate, Seoul National University)
Hima Roopa Kanaparthi (Guest Lecturer, Daulat Ram College of University of Delhi)
17:10–17:20 Presentation of the Kim Dae‑jung Academic Award and Kim Dae‑jung Thesis Award
17:20–17:30 Closing Ceremony