Workshop: From TICAD 9 to Africa’s Future: Youth Engagement for Peace and Stability

 

Time and Date: 22 August 2025, 2pm to 5pm

 

Place: JICA Yokohama

(Map)

https://www.jica.go.jp/english/domestic/yokohama/office/index.html

 

Program:

 

Initial Remarks: Mr. Nebibanga Evina, Chairman, Africa Asia Youth Nest

 

Special Lecture: Dr. Daisaku Higashi,  professor at Sophia University in Tokyo

                    (Director, Graduate Program of International Cooperation at Sophia University)

 

Prof. Daisaku Higashi is a leading scholar on mediation and peacebuilding in Japan. He has been assigned by Japanese Foreign Ministers to visit South Sudan to make its intellectual contributions in 2019, 2023, and 2024.  His CV and books is: https://daisaku-higashi.com/en/

 

Long time of Q and A

 

Networking Time

 

Planner & Moderator:　Shota Totsuka, 2nd Year Student, Faculty of Global Studies,

Sophia University 

 

There is no need for the registration. The purpose of this workshop is to create the place and opportunities for African participants to TICAD 9 (from Aug 20 to Aug 22), African students, citizens, and diplomats living in Japan, and the Japanese young people, students, and citizens to discuss challenges of peacebuilding in Africa and create the network to keep future collaboration.

 

TICAD9 (８月２０日―２２日)と同じ時期に開催し、TICAD９に参加するアフリカ各国の方々、日本に在留するアフリカの学生や社会人、外交官、日本の学生や社会人、市民が集まり、アフリカの平和の課題について語り合い、将来の連携へのネットワークを作ることを目的としています。

 

Hosted by Sophia University Circle, “Study Group of Peacebuilding and International Cooperation” 

Co-hosted by Sophia Institute for Human Security, Japan Global Dialogue 

                      Sophia Institute of International Relations, Africa Asia Youth Nest

Supported by JICA Yokohama   (TBC)