Agenda –Peace in Asia and the Pacific: Alternatives to Asia-Pacific Militarization
9/15 draft
Friday Evening, Oct. 21 – Beginning 7:30
Welcome – Peter Kuznick for American University
Framing Talk – Joseph Gerson
Campaign/Movement Building Panel
- Bruce Gagnon – Missile Defenses (Global Network)
- Jean Athey - Military Budget/Human Needs (Peace Action)
- Ikaika Hussey (AFSC/DMZ-Hawai’i/Aloha ‘Aina
- Hiroshi Taka (Gensuikyo)
- Youn-Ae Park (Gang-jeong Villagemm Jeju, South Korea)
Saturday Oct. 22 (beginning 9:00)
Formal Welcome
- Madame Yan Junqi – Chinese People’s Ass’n for Peace & Disarmament
- Shan Cretin - AFSC
Keynote – Shen Dingli – Fudan University
Keynote – Zia Mian – Princeton University
- Q & A ….
break
Northeast Asia Security Panel (11:15 – 12: 30)
- U.S. policy – John Feffer – Institute for Policy Studies
- China’s policy – Chen Duming - CPAPD
- Korean realities – Wooksik Cheong – Civil Network for a Peaceful Korea
- Japanese realities – Hiroshi Taka - Gensuikyo
- Q & A
Lunch
Southeast Asia Security Panel (1:15 – 2:30)
- Vietnamese perspectives – Ngo Vin Long – University of Maine
- U.S. Policies – Gareth Porter – Inter Press News Service
- CPAPD speaker – Wang Hangling – Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
- Philippine speaker – Herbert Docena – University of California
- Q & A – 30 minutes
Workshop Session 1 (2:45 –4:00)
Tentative listing:
- Cut Military Spending/Fund our Communities – Jean Athey, Aura Kanegis, Hou Hongyu
- History 101: U.S. in Asia-Pacific – John Feffer
- US-China Relations and the Dynamics of South Asia: From World Politics to the War on Terror and Beyond – Shen Dingli, Zia Mian, and Joseph Gerson
- Central/South Asia – Zia Mian
- Korea
Workshop session II (4:15-5:30)
- Burma – David Steinberg/Jason Tower, Wang Hanling
- Economic Realities & Dynamics of the Asia-Pacific – John Feffer & Ding Yifan
- Human Rights – China Human Rights Association, Jon Hecht – (Invited)
- Nuclear Weapons Abolition – Jackie Cabasso/Hiroshi Taka, Hou Hongyu
- Campaigning Against Military Bases: Julian Aguon, Ikaika Hussey, Youn-Ae Park, Wooksik Cheong, other TBA
Concluding Plenary: 5:30-6:00 to be followed by reception
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