Event

The United Nations: Current Challenges in Peace and Security

Sunday, February 22nd, 2004, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Speaker: Dr. Chiyuki Aoi, United Nations University; Dr. Toshi Mogami, International Christian University; Panel Chair: Dr. Betty Reardon, Founding Director of the Peace Education Center Teachers College, NY

This Colloquium will address the unprecedented and urgently important challenges the United Nations now faces in fulfilling its mission to work to maintain peace and security in a world radically different from the one in which the U. N. Charter was formulated. The possibilities for a more secure world order have never been under greater threat, and the need for world citizens to understand what the United Nations can and is doing in the face of these challenges never more important. Please join us for a discussion of these crucial global issues.
Bio Data:

• Chiyuki Aoi is Academic Programme Officer at the United Nations University (UNU) in Tokyo. She received her BA from Sophia University (Tokyo), MS from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA) and Ph.D from Columbia University (New York). Before joining the UNU as Officer, she worked as a Junior Professional Officer at the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and as Associate at the UNU. Her current research is on peace support operations and military culture.
• Betty A. Reardon is the founding Director of the Peace Education Program at Teachers College Columbia University and the International Institutes on Peace Education, and holds a doctorate in education from Columbia University and a masters degree in history from New York University. She has taught at universities in several countries and has broad experience in education at all levels, both formal and non-formal. She brings to her specialization in peace education a broad and comprehensive perspective which integrates into the field issues of human security, sustainable development, human rights, ecology and gender. She was one of the initiators of the Hague Appeal for Peace Global Campaign for Peace Education and Director of the Peace Education Center at Teachers College Columbia University. She has 40 years of experience in the international peace education movement and 25 years in the international movement for the human rights of women. She has served as a consultant to several UN agencies and has published widely in the field of peace and human rights education, gender and women's issues.

Organization: Teachers College Columbia University Japan (TC Columbia)

Cost: Admission to all public seminars is free, but space is limited so please make your reservation.

Venue: Teacher's College, Columbia University Japan, Mitsui Seimei Bldg. 4F, 2-21-2 Misaki-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo (1 min. walk from the JR Suido-bashi Station)

Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis, Japan

Contact TC Columbia

Teachers College Columbia University Japan Tokyo Office

Work phone: 03-3221-9771