Opening Remarks:

Prof. Yoshiaki TERUMICHI (President, Sophia University)
Prof. Ken AOKI　(Director, Sophia Institute for Human Security)

Speaker:

Kiyoshi ODAWARA (Senior Vice-Minist er for Foreign Affairs)

Commentator:

Prof. Kazuhiro MAESHIMA (SIIR)

Opening Remarks:

Prof. Takashi IROHARA (Vice President for Academic Affairs, Sophia University)

Speaker:

Yukio EDANO (Former leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party, A Member of the House of Representatives)

Commentator:

Prof. Makiko DEGUCHI (Director, Center for Global Education and Discovery, Sophia University)

Opening Remarks:

Fr. Tsutomu SAKUMA, S. J. (Chancellor, Sophia School Cooperation)

Speaker:

Junichi YAMADA (Senior Vice President, JICA)

Commentator:

Prof. Sali AUGUSTINE (Trustee for General Affairs, Sophia School Cooperation)

Opening Remarks:

Prof. Shigeru NISHIZAWA (Vice President for Admission Affairs, Sophia University)

Speakers:

Mr. Yoshiteru HORIE (President, Association for Aid and Relief, Japan)
Ms. Chiaki FURUKAWA (Managing Director, Association for Aid and Relief, Japan)

Commentator:

Prof. Yoshihiro OTO (Professor, Department of Journalism, Sophia University)

Opening Remarks:

Prof. Tetsuo MORISHITA (Vice President for Global Academic Affairs, Sophia University)
Mr. Masao TORII (President, Sophia Alumni Association)

Speakers:

Mr. Yu MURAKAMI (President, Peace Medical Services)
Ms. Chiyoko FUJITA (Board Member, Peace Medical Services)

Commentator:

Prof. Masayuki AKAHORI (Director, Center for Islamic Studies, Sophia University)
Prof. Mikiko SUGIURA (Professor, Center for Global Education and Discovery, Sophia University)

Opening Remarks:

Mr. Koji Yonetani (Director-General, African Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan)
Mr. Naohiro Tsutsumi (Ambassador of Japan to the Republic of South Sudan)

Speakers:

Gen. Taban Deng Gai (Vice President, South Sudan)
Mr. Guang Cong (UN Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for South Sudan)
Prof. Daisaku Higashi (SIIR)

Commentator:

Mr. Fuyuki Sagara (JICA Representative in South Sudan)

Opening Remarks:

Prof. Takashi OKADA (Vice President for Academic Research, Sophia University)

Lecture 1:

The Significance of Japan’s Efforts to Solve Global Poverty and Food Shortage

Speaker:

Mr. Hitoshi KIKAWADA (Secretary General, Japan Parliamentarians’ Federation for Population, State Minister of Cabinet Office)

Lecture 2:

The Activities of World Food Programme and the Significance and Challenges of Nutrition Summit”

Speaker:

Ms. Naoe YAKIYA (Director, UN WFP Japan Relations Office)

Lecture 3:

Carrying on the Will of Dr. Tetsu Nakamura: Efforts to Address the Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan

Speakers:

Mr. Yu MURAKAMI (President, Peace Medical Services)
Ms. Chiyoko FUJITA (Board Member, Peace Medical Services)

Moderator:

Prof. Daisaku Higashi (SIIR)

Opening Remarks:

Prof. Yasuhiro UEKI (SIIR)

Panelists:

Prof. Toshiya HOSHINO (Professor, Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University, former Deputy Permanent Representative of Japan to the UN)
Prof. Takeshi YUASA (Professor, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Sophia University)
Amb. Shigeki SUMI (Visiting Professor, Tamagawa University, Visiting Lecturer, Sophia University, Former Ambassador of Japan to Ukraine)
Prof. Shigeo MUTSUSHIKA (Executive Director, Kazankai Foundation, Professor Emeritus, University of Shizuoka)
Prof. Kuniko OZAKI (Specially Appointed Professor, Chuo University, Former Judge, International Criminal Court)
Prof. Tadashi ANNO (SIIR)

Speakers：

Prof. Midori OKABE (SIIR) “The US-China Competition for Supremacy, Russia-Ukraine Conflict, and the EU: Changing Structure of International Relations”
Prof. Yuichi MORII (Professor, University of Tokyo) “Changing International Security Environment and Germany’s Foreign Policy”
Prof. Moe WADA (Assistant Professor, Tohoku University) “France in the Face of Multi-Layered and Multi-Faceted Security Challenges”
Prof. Hiroto YASODA (Professor, Kyoritsu Women’s University) “Will the Ukraine Crisis Change Italy’s Foreign Policy?”
Prof. Haruko HOSODA (Professor, Nihon University) “The 40th Anniversary of Spain’s Accession to NATO: Spain at a Crossroads”

Discussant:

Prof. Tomoya KURODA (Associate Professor, Senshu University)
Prof. Takashi TERADA (Professor, Doshisha University)

Moderator:

Prof. Yasuhiro UEKI (SIIR)

Q&A Session

Panel Discussion:

Approaches of Eastern European and Baltic States to Ukraine and to Russia: The Impact of the Changing International Structure”

Panelists:

Prof. Ryo NAKAI (Associated Professor, the University of Kitakyushu)
Prof. Akira ICHIKAWA (Professor, Toyo University)
Prof. Ryo FUJISHIMA (Professor, Kokugakuin University)

Discussants:

Prof. Takeshi YUASA (Professor, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Sophia University) “From the Viewpoint of Russia”
Prof. Kohei IMAI (Researcher, IDE-JETRO) “From the Viewpoint of Turkey”

Q&A Session

Opening Remarks:

Fr. Tsutomu SAKUMA, S. J. (Chancellor of Sophia University)

Keynote Speech/ Q&A:

Speakers:

Mr. Nadir NAIM (President, Kabul Institute for Peace)
Mr. Richard TRENCHARD (Representative, Food and Agricultural Organization in Afghanistan)
Amb. Tadamichi YAMAMOTO (Former Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan)

Commentator:

Prof. Sali AUGUSTINE (Trustee for General Affairs, Sophia School Cooperation)

Moderator:

Prof. Daisaku HIGASHI(SIIR)

Opening Remarks:

Prof. Yoshiaki TERUMICHI (President, Sophia University)

Speech/ Q&A:

Speakers:

Ms. Marla Fernanda ESPINOSA (Chairperson, 73rd UN General Assembly, Member, GWL Voices for Change and Inclusion)
Amb. Yoshihiro KATAYAMA (Japanese Ambassador to the Republic of Moldova)
Prof. Lise HOWARD (Professor, Georgetown University, President, the Academic Council on the UN System)
Prof. Daisaku HIGASHI (SIIR)

Commentator:

Prof. Sukehiro HASEGAWA (Distinguished Professor of the Kyoto University of the Arts, Former Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Timor-Leste)

Moderator:

Prof. Daisaku HIGASHI (SIIR)

Session 1:

Relations between the EU and Non-EU States

Speakers:

Prof. Min SHU (Associate Professor, Waseda University) “The Ukraine Crisis and the EU-China Relations”
Prof. Itsuki KURASHINA (Professor, Doshisha University) “European Unification and Russia-Ukraine Conflict in the Context of US-Europe Relations”
Prof. Daisuke IKEMOTO (Professor, Meiji Gakuin University) “The Relations between the UK and the EU after Brexit: The Impact of Russia-Ukraine Conflict”

Discussant:

Prof. Kenki ADACHI (Professor, Ritsumeikan University)

Moderator:

Prof. Midori OKABE (SIIR)

Seission 2:

The UN and the EU: The Dynamics of Inter-Organizational Relations

Speaker:

Prof. Yasuhiro UEKI (SIIR) “Subsidiarity between the UN and the EU: Approaches to a World Divided”

Discussant:

Prof. Takako UETA (Former Deputy Chief of the Mission of Japan to the European Union; Visiting Professor, Kagawa University; Lecturer, Sophia University)

Plenary Discussion

Moderator:

Midori OKABE (SIIR)

Opening Remarks:

Prof. Tetsuro MORISHITA (Vice President of Sophia University for Global Academic Affairs)

Speakers:

Dr. Dmytro Sherengovsky (Vice-Rector for Academics and Internationalization, Lecturer of Global Politics)
Dr. Halyna Protsyk (Director of the International Office, Lecturer at the Political Science Department, Trainer of the Ukrainian National Team for NMUN)
Prof. Tadashi ANNO (SIIR)
Prof. Daisaku HIGASHI (SIIR)

Student Speakers:

Students of Ukraine Catholic University
Students of Sophia University

Closing Remarks:

Dr. Dmytro Sherengovsky (Vice-Rector for Academics and Internationalization)

Opening Remarks:

Mr. Izuru SHIMMURA (Representative of the Government of Japan for OIC, Consul-General of Japan in Jeddah)
Fr. Tsutomu SAKUMA, S. J. (Chancellor of Sophia School Cooperation)
Mr. Hitoshi KIKAWADA (Chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs, The House of Representatives, the Japanese Diet; Secretary General, Japan Parliamentarians’ Federation on Population (JPFP))

Main Speakers:

Amb. Tarig Ali BAKHEET (Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of OIC to Afghanistan)
Mohammad AL-SAATI (Special Advisor to the President of Islamic Development Bank)
Dr. Masaru MURAKAMI (President, Peace Japan Medical Service)

Commentator:

Prof. Sali AUGUSTINE (Trustee for General Affairs, Sophia School Cooperation )

Moderator:

Prof. Daisaku HIGASHI (SIIR)

Opening Remarks:

Prof. Tadashi ANNO (SIIR)

Panelists/Q&A

Professor Yukie OSA (Professor, Rikkyo University, Chairperson, Association for Aid and Relief, Japan)
Dr. Noel MORADA (Director, Regional Diplomacy and Capacity Building,
Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, University of Queensland)
Prof. Mely CABALLERO-ANTHONY (Professor and Head of the Center for Non-Traditional Security Studies, , Nanyang Technology University)

Commentators:

Prof. Mie OBA (Professor, Kanagawa University)
Prof. Daisuke MADOKORO (Associate Professor, the University of Kitakyushu)

Moderator:

Prof. Daisaku HIGASHI (SIIR)

Opening Remarks:

Mr. Masao TORII (President, Sophia Alumni Association)
Prof. Tadashi ANNO (SIIR)

Special Guest Speaker:

Amb. Ichiro FUJISAKI (Director, Nakasone Peace Institute)

Special Guest Speaker:

Ambassador Ichiro FUJISAKI, Director, Nakasone Peace Institute

Panel Discussion:

What Is Expected of Career National Civil Servants?

Panelists:

Mr. Soichi YUSHINA (Deputy Director-General of the Patent and Design Examination Department (Measurement and Applied Physics Division), Japan Patent Office, Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry)
Mr. Jun IMANISHI (Counsellor, Cabinet Secretariat, Secretariat of New Form of Capitalism Realization Headquarters)
Ms. Sachie KITAGAWA (Deputy Director of the Economic Partnership Division, Trade Policy Bureau, Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry)
Ms. Misato NAKAMURA (Administrative Coordination Division, Minister’s Secretariat, Japanese Ministry of Defense)
Mr. Daijiro NAKAJIMA (Student, Accepted as Career National Civil Servant (Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry) from 2023)
Ms. Yuri YAMADA (Student, Accepted as Career National Civil Servant (Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare) from 2023)

Special Guest:

Mr. Ibuki ONISHI (Deputy Director, Personnel Division, Minister’s Secretariat, Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Q&A by Participants, Panelists, and the Special Guest

Closing Remarks:

Mr. Takaaki EBATO (Member, Standing Committee, Sophia Alumni Association)

Moderator:

Mr. Makoto MIYAZAKI (Sophia Alumni Association)

Main Speaker:

Amb. Boqian OU (Secretary-General, Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat)

Speaker:

Ms. Marina SAKAI (Programme Officer, Department of Economic Affairs, Trilateral Cooperation Secreatriat) “Exploring Trilateral Cooperation: Working at an International Organization”

Moderator:

Prof. Tadashi ANNO (SIIR)

Opening Remarks:

Prof. Sali AUGUSTINE (Trustee for General Affairs, Sophia School Cooperation)

Special Lecture:

Dr. Abdallah Al DARDARI (Resident Representative of UNDP in Afghanistan)

Commentator:

Prof. Sali AUGUSTINE (Trustee for General Affairs, Sophia School Cooperation)

Special Lecture:

Mr. Tadamichi YAMAMOTO (Former Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan)

Openings Remarks:

Mr. Shinji HYODO (Vice President for Academic Affairs, NIDS)

Panel 1:

Economic Security

Panelists:

Prof. Kosuke SAITO (SIIR) “Economic Security and Universities”
Mr. Tomoaki YOSHIDA (Research Fellow, Security and Economy Division, Security Studies Department, NIDS) “Economic Security and Stable Supply of Crude Oil: Strategic Dialogues with Oil-Producing Countries in the Middle East in an Era of Decarbonization”

Moderator:

Mr. Sukeyuki ICHIMASA (Head of Cyber Security Division, Policy Studies Department, NIDS)

Q&A by Participants and Panelists

Panel 2:

Competition among Major Powers and International Order

Panelists:

Mr. Shinji HYODO (Vice President for Academic Affairs, NIDS) “The Impact of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine on the International Society”
Prof. Kazuhiro MAESHIMA (SIIR) “Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and the Reaction of the US”

Moderator:

Prof. Masataka NAKAUCHI (SIIR)

Openings Remarks:

Prof. Sukehiro HASEGAWA (Distinguished Professor, Kyoto University of the Arts)
Dr. Noel MORADA (Director, Regional Diplomacy and Capacity Building,
Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, University of Queensland)
Ms. Claire Elias (Minister in Charge of Political Affairs, Australian Embassy in Japan)

Explanation on the Background for Humanitarian Crisis in Myanmar:

Prof. Hiromu MIYASHITA (Assistant Professor, Meijo University)

Panel 1:

Japan’s Approach to Humanitarian Crisis

Panelists:

Ms. Ako MUTO (Senior Research Fellow, JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development)
Professor Miyoko TANIGUCHI (Professor, Miyazaki Municipal University)
Professor Masataka NAKAUCHI (SIIR)

Moderator:

Kaoru KURUSU (Professor, Kobe University)

Panel 2:

R2P and the Role of Japan in Addressing the Myanmar Crisis

Panelists:

Dr. Noel MORADA (Director, Regional Diplomacy and Capacity Building,
Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, University of Queensland)
Prof. Mely CABALLERO-ANTHONY (Professor and Head of the Center for Non-Traditional Security Studies, Nanyang Technology University)
Prof. Yukiko NISHIKWA (Doshisha University)

Moderator:

Prof. Ayako KOBAYASHI (SIIR)