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November 15, 2026 (Sunday)

Day 2 Program

カンファレンスの演壇ビュー
木製の椅子の配列

13:00 ~ 14:30 Parallel Sessions Part 1

  • Session 1: Human Security and Global Governance​
    Discussant: TBD
    Chair: TBD

  1. From Liminality to Normative Agency: Japan and Human Security; Merve Ozturk Asil (Ritsumeikan University)

  2. Military Neutrality versus Diplomatic Neutrality: The Cost of Taking Sides in the Russo-Ukrainian War; Andreas Nishikawa-Pacher (University of Tokyo)

  3. Reconsidering Human Security through Emerging Development Partners: South-South Cooperation and the Search for an Inclusive Global Development Architecture; Kentaro Akutsu (JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute)

  4. Multi-Stakeholder Practices of Human Security: The Reception and Effectiveness of the UNGPs in Japan in the Context of Business Relations with Israeli Defence Companies; Mizuki Endo (University of Tokyo)

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  • Session 2: Armed Actors, Violence, and Human Security
    Chair: TBD
    Discussant: TBD

  1. From Political Settlement to Sustainable Peace: The Fragility of Peace Agreements in Sudan; Ijlal Ahmed (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  2. Security Governance: Assessing the Impact of Koglweogo Vigilante Groups on People's Sense of Safety in Burkina Faso; Gaius Ilbudo (University of Osaka)

  3. Foreign war volunteers - learning from the Finnish experience; Kristo Karvinen (Independent)

  4. Terrorist Violence and Online Participation: Time-Series Evidence from ISIL Attacks and Historically Linked Twitter Accounts; Haoyang Li (Kobe University)
     

  • Session 3: Humanitarian Action and Displacement
    Chair: TBD
    Discussant: TBD

  1. Why International Institutions Overlap: Role Status among International Organisations in the Protection of Climate Refugees; Gyuri Kim (University of Tokyo)

  2. Negotiation Capital, Localisation, and Human Security in Humanitarian Negotiation; Trevor Clark (Kobe University)

  3. Selective Asylum and Unequal Human Security: Differential Refugee Treatment in Tanzania; Tomomi Sugimoto (University of Tokyo)

  4. Gender Equality and Human Security in Higher Education for Refugees: An Analysis of the UNHCR DAFI Program; Fumiko Tsutaki (Soka University)

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  • Session 4: Technology, AI, and Human Security
    Chair: TBD
    Discussant: TBD

  1. Science Diplomacy for Human Diversity: Science, Technology, and Biopharmacy as Human Security Architectures in the 21st Century; Daney Ricardo Perez Valerino (GRIPS)

  2. Offline by Design: Curriculum-Grounded AI Tutoring as a Human Security Response to Educational Exclusion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Pascal Burume Buhendwa (Kobe Institute of Computing)

  3. Human Security amid the AI-Driven Transformation of Youth Labour in China: Differential Vulnerability and Agency; Chao Wang (University of Tokyo)

  4. Measuring Technology as Dignity: A Field Report from Living Lab Kesennuma; Megumi Ishimoto (Women's Eye; Human Security Forum), Hikari Igarashi (Women's Eye)

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10:30-12:00 Plenary Session 2

Theme: Human Security and Everyday Life

Presenters:

- Eiji Gon, Professor of Faculty of Human Sciences & Graduate School of Commerce, Chiba University of Commerce

- Atsushi Watabe, Phd, Director for Stakeholder Engagement/Principal Researcher. Sustainable Consumption and Production Area, Institute for Global Environment Strategies, Japan 

- Vu, Le Thao Chi, Associate Professor of Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University

Commentators: 

- Miki Akiyama, Professor of Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University

- Professor Yoichi Mine, Executive Directive of JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development.

Moderator: 

- Greg Dalziel, Project Assistant Professor at Center for Global Education, the University of Tokyo

Content:
This plenary session is dedicated to the late Professor Michio Umegaki (1947–2026), former President of the Japan Association for Human Security Studies. Professor Umegaki was a political scientist who specialized in International Relations as well as Japan’s foreign policy and politics. Toward the end of the 1990s, he shifted his research focus toward individual lives on the ground, studying a group of orphans left behind by HIV-infected parents in Northern Thailand, as well as families with children with disabilities caused by exposure to Dioxin (Agent Orange) used by the US during the Vietnam War in Central Vietnam. He remained deeply committed to his field research in Vietnam for 23 years, alongside a project initiated in 2012 that built a school space for children with disabilities in the region. For further information about Professor Umegaki and his work, please refer to the following link (available only in Japanese, though many of his English works are listed in the references):
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A2%85%E5%9E%A3%E7%90%86%E9%83%8E

To Professor Umegaki, “Life represented by one set of ‘regularities’ or another, is not much more than life viewed from a distance. It may tell more about the viewer than the viewed.” He recognized the resilience of individuals who manage to survive under any circumstances. But he emphasized how “surviving” differs from “living.” Surviving is a matter of “life in transition,” which alone cannot justify the legitimacy or effectiveness of a policy. Life at any given moment must be a life deemed worth living by the individual themselves. This principle guided his work as a political scientist on the ground: “The best way to do this may be to let the viewed describe their life in their own language. If I fail to extract regularities from it, I would have to blame it on the poverty of my conceptual imagination.” 

Inspired by the legacy left behind by Professor Umegaki, this plenary session features presentations from three of his former students who carry on his vision in their respective fields. The presentations will address core topics in Human Security—lives as lived in the context of everyday life, well-being, and life in transition—alongside grounded fieldwork presented as case studies.​

15:00 ~ 16:30 Parallel Sessions Part 2

  • Session 5: Climate, Environment, and Resilience
    Chair: TBD
    Discussant: TBD

  1. Human-Centred Energy Security: Integrating Advanced Photovoltaic Materials and Climate-Resilient Solar-Hydropower Planning for Liberia; Alexander Opa Freeman (Saga University)

  2. Smart Flood Detection and Early Warning System for Flood-Prone Communities in Myanmar; Yu Thundar (Kobe Institute of Computing)

  3. From Climate Ambition to Human Security: Strengthening Philippine NDC Governance for Climate-Vulnerable Communities; Carlos Jr Borja (Kyushu University)

  4. Wetland Affects Environmental Security and Community Resilience: A Socio-Ecohydrological Perspective from Belai Bil, Bangladesh; Kaminee Kanta Das (Keio University)

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  • Session 6: Public Services and Human Security
    Chair: TBD
    Discussant: TBD

  1. Improving Methods and Means for Assessing the Condition of Roads in Mountainous Conditions Based on Data From Intelligent Transport Systems; Afzuna Muborakshoeva (Shibaura Institute of Technology)

  2. Performance of Indonesian Water Utilities during the COVID-19 Crisis: Lessons for Building Resilience; Marjianto Marjianto (Tohoku University)

  3. Mobility as Human Security: Transport Accessibility, Social Exclusion, and Unequal Mobility in Dili, Timor-Leste; Hugo Da Costa Ximenes (Yamaguchi University; National University of Timor-Leste), Hiroyuki Sakakibara (Yamaguchi University)

  4. Human Security and Resilience of Migrant Communities: Evidence from Ibaraki, Japan; Masato Noda (Ibaraki University)

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  • Session 7: Livelihoods and Sustainable Development
    Chair: TBD
    Discussant: TBD

  1. Human Diversity and the Security of Economic Transformation: FDI, Industrial Upgrading, and Inclusive Development in Bangladesh; Md Sayful Islam (GRIPS)

  2. Evolution of aquaculture development in Northern Patagonia: A case study of community-based salmon and trout farming; Hazuki Matsuda (University of Tokyo)

  3. Maritime Security Governance and Human Security among Coastal Fishing Communities along Yemen's Red Sea Coast: Maritime Security Practices and Fishing Access; Xiaoyu Gui (University of Tokyo)

  4. Invisible at Sea: The Human Security Gap in Fish Aggregating Device (FAD) Governance in Indonesia; Widhya Nugroho Satrioajie (Hokkaido University)

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  • Session 8: Diversity, Inclusion, and Dignity
    Chair: TBD
    Discussant: TBD

  1. Stopped from Codifying: National Interest and the International Law Commission's Programme on the Use of Force; Satoshi Yamamoto (Hiroshima University)

  2. Rethinking Cultural Representation in Foreign Language Education from a Human Security Perspective: Japanese and Korean Teaching Materials in Comparative Perspective; Haeun Kim (University of Tokyo)

  3. Human Diversity as a Source of Innovation: Human-Centered Funding for Financial Independence and Human Security; Ani (Annie) Vashakmadze (Kyoto Institute of Technology; Business and Technology University
    of Georgia)

  4. What Binds and What Divides? Social Capital and the Reintegration of Former Combatants in Northern Uganda; Mi Kyoung Park (University of Tokyo)

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