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| GLS #3 | Special Lecture by Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs of Columbia University@ | |
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| Date: | October 29, 2009 (Thu) | |
| Time: | 15:30~17:30 * Participants are allowed to enter the hall from 14:30 for better seats. | |
| Title: | Poverty Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons Learned from Millennium Village Projects | |
| Venue: | Koshiba Hall, Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo | |
| Lecturer: | Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General | |
| Language: | English | |
 * About Professor Sachs: http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/articles/view/1804 | ||
| GLS #4 | Special Lectures by Sir Graham Fry | |
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| First Lecture | Date: | January 21,2010 (Thu) |
| Time: | 13:10-14:50 | |
| Place: | Room#26, 3rd Floor, 1st Building, Faculty of Law, Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo | |
| Title: | Hong Kong Negotiations: Implications for Dealing with a Rising China | |
| Language: | English | |
| Second Lecture | Date: | January 26,2010 (Tue) |
| Time: | 13:10-14:50 | |
| Place: | Room#26, 3rd Floor, 1st Building, Faculty of Law, Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo | |
| Title: | Europe and Japan: A History of Misunderstanding? | |
| Language: | English | |
 Sir Graham Fry was British ambassador in Japan from 2004 to 2008. He joined the Diplomatic Service in 1972 after graduating from Oxford University. After learning Japanese, he was posted to the Tokyo Embassy from 1975 to 1978, and from 1989 to 1993. He was also posted to Paris from 1983 to 1987 and as British ambassador in Malaysia from 1998 to 2001. The rest of his working life was spent in London, mainly in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and mainly concerned with Asian Affairs. He now acts as a company adviser and lecturer and is a Council@member of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust. | ||
| GLS #6 | Special Lectures by Jean-Marie Guehenno | |
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| "Peacekeeping Operations Update - Case Studies #1`#3" | ||
| First Lecture | Date: | July 8, 2010 (Thu) |
| Title: | Robust Peacekeeping | |
| Outline: | In the aftermath of the tragedies in Rwanda and Srebrenica, the international community pushed for more robust peacekeeping capabilities, including the mandate to use force not only in self-defense, but also in defense of civilians under UN protection. These mandates were to be met with increased resourcing. Now, over fifteen years after Rwanda, I will review the UN strategy of robust peacekeeping, exploring case studies to answer questions such as: what is a feasible goal for robust peacekeeping; to what extent have we lived up to our goals; what are the issues facing robust action for the UN and other peacekeepers as we move forward; how do we address them; and if not robust peacekeeping, what alternatives might we use. | |
| Second Lecture | Date: | July 9, 2010 (Fri) |
| Title: | The Politacal Foundations of Peacekeeping | |
| Outline: | Many observers of modern peacekeeping focus on the peacekeepers themselves, the military and civilian resources and the arduous logistical hurdles of operation in tenuous post-conflict environments. I argue that underpinning the success and failure of a peacekeeping mission is as much dependent on the politics of negotiations as the skill and resources of the staff, and that successful operations must see their objectives in political rather than technical terms. I will explore politics at both the headquarter levels ? the making of mandates ? and at the field level ? the implementation of those mandates, using key case studies from 2000-2009. | |
| Third Lecture | Date: | July 13, 2010 (Tue) |
| Title: | The Challenge of Rebuilding Fragile States | |
| Outline: | Peacekeeping has grown beyond its original embodiment of monitoring ceasefires to include components of early recovering such as peacebuilding and supporting the capacity of the state to sustain itself and the peace. Rebuilding a state, however, has proven to be a complex business on which the international community has a very mixed record. I will explore tiers of challenges ? conceptual, political, operational and logistical ? that plague the effort to support rebuilding in fragile states. | |
| *The above titles may change without prior notice. | ||
| Time: | Opening at 12:30, starting at 13:10, and ending at 14:50 | |
| Place: | Koshiba Hall, Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo | |
| Language: | English | |
 Jean-Marie Guehenno is a professor of professional practice at the Saltzman Institute of Columbia University, and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He currently serves as the Chairperson of the Advisory Board of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the chair of the Senior Advisory Group on the civilian capacities of the United Nations. He is also a member of the board of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Geneva.
@Previously, as the Under-Secretary-General for peacekeeping operations from 2000 to 2008, he became the longest-serving head of peacekeeping. He led the biggest expansion of peacekeeping in the history of the United Nations. | ||
| GLS #7 | GLS Seminar by Mr. Peter Crowley, UNICEF Representative, Afghanistan (Special Lecture by Ms. Hilde F. Johnson, Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF has been cancelled.) | |
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| Ms. Hilde F. Johnson, Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF has to have cancelled her lecture at Global Leadership Studies program for health reasons. Mr. Peter Crowley will give us a lecture on the same topic instead. Mr. Kunihiko Hirabayashi, Director of UNICEF Tokyo Office will also give us a brief explanation on the recent activities of UNICEF. | ||
| Date: | July 16 (Friday) 2010 | |
| Time: | Opening at 9:50, Starting at 10:20, and Ending at 12:00 | |
| Place: | Room #21, Faculty of Law Building # 1, Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo@(The map of the build. 1) | |
| Title: | Children and Fragile States | |
| Lecturer: | Mr. Peter Crowley, UNICEF Representative, Afghanistan | |
| Moderator: | Dr. Shinichi Kitaoka, Chairman, Professor, Graduate Schools for Law & Politics, The University of Tokyo | |
| Language: | English | |
Mr. Peter Crowley has been UNICEF Representative in Afghanistan since May 2010. Prior to the appointment, he served as Director of UNICEF Southern Sudan Area Programme from 2007 to 2010. From@June 2004 to 2007, he served as Director, Office of Public Partnerships in New York, USA. In this capacity, he was responsible for strengthening, expanding and monitoring UNICEFfs collaboration with key civil society constituencies. Mr. Crowley joined UNICEF New York in September 1998 and held numerous positions in the following divisions: Senior Programme Officer (1998-2000) and Deputy Director (2000-2001), Division of Evaluation, Policy and Planning; Senior Progarmme Officer, Office of Emergency Programmes (2001-2004).Mr. Crowley began his professional career in 1979 with the Voluntary Service Overseas, as Field Officer for Southern Sudan (1979-1983) and as Field Director in Nepal (1983-1985). He joined the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as Chief Technical Adviser (1985-1990). He was with Save the Children UK as Head, South Asia Regional Office (1991-1993) and subsequently as Executive Officer (1994-1998). Mr. Crowley is a national of Ireland. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Social Anthropology from the University of Hull, UK (1974) and pursued studies in Law from the University of Warwick, UK, as well as in Sociology, Economics and Politics from the University of Liverpool, UK. | ||
| GLS #9 | Special Lectures by Arthur Waldron | |
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| "The Rise of China" #1`#3 | ||
| First Lecture | Date: | Nov. 9 (Tue), 2010 |
| Title: | The Rise of China: How Substantial? | |
| Venue: | Fukutake Hall, Learning Theater, Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo (The map of Fukutake Hall) | |
| Second Lecture | Date: | Nov.16 (Tue), 2010 |
| Title: | The Rise of China: Beneficial or Threatening? | |
| Venue: | Room # 21, Faculty of Law & Letters Bldg 1, Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo (The map of Bldg 1) | |
| Third Lecture | Date: | Nov. 17 (Wed), 2010 |
| Title: | The Rise of China, and China | |
| Venue: | Room # 21, Faculty of Law & Letters Bldg 1, Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo (The map of Bldg 1) | |
| Time: | ( All Three Lectures ) Opening at 18:00, starting at 18:30, and ending at 20:10 | |
| Lecturer: | Arthur Waldron, Lauder Professor of International Relations, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania | |
| Moderator: | Shinichi Kitaoka, Professor, Graduate Schools for Law & Politics, The University of Tokyo | |
| Language: | English | |
 Arthur Waldron has for more than thirty years been one of America's leading Asian specialists, having special expertise in international relations and security. He was educated at Harvard where he graduated summa cum laude and first in his undergraduate class in 1971, and after four years living in Asia, returned to Harvard to receive his Ph/D in History in 1981. He taught at Harvard, Brown, Princeton, and the US Naval War College before being appointed to the Lauder Chair in International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. He author, chapter contributor, or editor of more than twenty books and many more articles, several of which have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Italian. In addition to teaching and research, he has served as Director of Asian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and on the Congressionally-mandated U.S. China Security Commission as well as the Tilelli Commission, which reviewed the CIA's work on China. He consults regularly for government, and is a commentator in the US media, as well as for the BBC and Radio Australia. He has visited more than forty countries. He is married with two sons and lives in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. | ||
| Application | Send your mail with the following information to GLS Secretariat at: glsapply@j.u-tokyo.ac.jp
1. Name of the Lecture(s) and Date(s) 2. Applicant name 3. Organization 4. Mail address Pre-registration is required to listen to the seminars. | |
| GLS #18 | GLS Seminar by Dr. Shinichi Kitaoka, Emeritus Professor, The University of Tokyo | |
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| Date: | Jan. 15 (Tue.) 2013 | |
| Time: | Opening at 17:10, Starting at 17:30, and Ending at 19:10 | |
| Venue: | Room #22, Faculty of Law Building # 1, Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo@(The map of the build. 1) | |
| Title: | "UN Peace Operations and Japan"\South Sudan and Anti-piracy Activities off the Coast of Somalia\ | |
| Lecturer: | Dr. Shinichi Kitaoka,
President, International University of Japan (IUJ)
Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
Executive Director of Research Institute for International Policy Studies (IIPS) | |
| Moderator: | Dr. Fumiaki Kubo, Professor, Graduate Schools for Law & Politics, The University of Tokyo | |
| Language: | Jananese(Simultaneous Interpretation in English available) | |
| Outline: | In 2012, the Japanese Self Defense Force (SDF) joined United Nations Missions in Sudan (UNMISS) for its first full-scale involvement in PKOs in Africa. Furthermore, the Japanese government has been sending its SDF to off the coast of Somalia for anti-piracy activities since 2009, though they were not PKO activities. Professor Kitaoka explains these activities by the Japan's Self Defense Forces based on his visits to Africa and explores the significance of Japanese contribution to UN peace operations. | |
Dr. Kitaoka was born in Nara, in 1948 and studied at the University of Tokyo (B.A. 1971; Ph.D. 1976); and taught at Rikkyo University (1976-97) and his alma mater (1997-2004, 2006-2012). He also served as Ambassador to the United Nations from 2004 to 2006. He is now Professor at National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies since April 2012 and President of International University of Japan since October 2012. From 2008, he is Chairman of Millennium Promise Japan, an NGO to solve MDGs in Africa.Kitaoka has published many books on Japan's military, diplomacy, party politics, and intellectuals and was honored by the Yoshida Shigeru Award (1986), Suntory Award for Liberal Arts (1987), and Yoshino Sakuzo Award (1995). He also contributes frequently to the major newspapers and magazines on Japan's security policy, foreign policy, and party politics and was given Yomiuri's Award for the Opinion Leader of the Year in 1992. He received the Imperial Medal with Purple Ribbon in November, 2011. | ||
| Application | Send your mail with the following information to GLS Secretariat at: glsapply@j.u-tokyo.ac.jp
1. Name of the Lecture(s) and Date(s) 2. Applicant name 3. Affiliation 4. Mail address Pre-registration is required to listen to the seminars. | |
| = collaborator: Millennium Promise Japan = | ||
| GLS #22 | GLS Seminar by Dr. Akihiko Tanakaka, President of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and former Vice-President of the University of Tokyo | |
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| Date: | Dec. 4th (Wed.) 2013 | |
| Time: | Opening at 16:00, Starting at 16:30, and Ending at 18:10 | |
| Venue: | Room #22, Faculty of Law Building # 1, Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo@(The map of the build. 1) | |
| Title: | "The World System and Japan's International Cooperation in the 21st Century | |
| Lecturer: | Dr. Akihiko Tanaka,
President of JICA, Former Vice-President, University of Tokyo | |
| Moderator: | Dr. Fumiaki Kubo, Professor, Graduate Schools for Law & Politics, The University of Tokyo | |
| Language: | Jananese(Simultaneous Interpretation in English available) | |
| Outline: | ||
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Our world system has undergone dramatic change since the advent of the 21st century. Some developing countries have successfully transformed into developed countries, with a few even turning into world economic powers on an eminent scale. At the same time, some countries still exist without "Human Security" and suffer civil conflict and an unstable political situation. These countries are striving to eliminate poverty and to improve their nation's health and education facilities. Against this background, what are the obstacles facing Japan's international cooperation policies and what more should Japan be doing? The lecturer will discuss these issues with reference to actual cases of Japanese official development assistance in Asia, South America and Africa. | ||
| Profile: | ||
Dr. Akihiko Tanaka, President of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Born in 1954, Dr. Tanaka graduated from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Arts in 1977. He earned a Ph.D. in Politics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1981. He has served in several posts at the University of Tokyo: Professor and Center President of the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, Professor of Graduate Schools of Information, General Manager of International Cooperation, Administrative Director/Vice President. He has served in his current post since April 2012.
Dr Tanaka received the Purple Ribbon Medal in 2012. | ||
| Co-hosted by: |
*Millennium Promise Japan (Authorized Non-Profit Organization) *The University of Tokyo Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo Graduate Schools for Law and Politics --Grant in Scientific Research (A) "Interlinkage between Economic and Security Issues" Project | |
| Application | To participate the above seminar, preregistration is required. Send us your information: 1) lecture name; 2) lecture date; 3) your name; 4) your organization/school name; 5) your e-mail address. Your application is being accepted at glsapply@j.u-tokyo.ac.jp. The lecture is given in Japanese language. Simultaneous translation (Japanese-English) is provided. If you need interpretation assistance, please let us know that with the above information since the number of receivers is limited. Thank you. | |