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UNITAR Hiroshima Public Sessions and UNITAR Hiroshima Lecture Series

In order to benefit the local and international community, as well as to enhance exchanges between UNITAR and the people of Hiroshima, the UNITAR Hiroshima Office regularly invites leaders and experts--academics, diplomats, politicians, international and national civil servants, nongovernmental organisation representatives--to give informal talks. These exchanges take place through the "UNITAR Hiroshima Public Sessions" and "UNITAR Hiroshima Lecture Series".     

Since 2003 to December 2012: 

  • Number of UNITAR Hiroshima Public Sessions and UNITAR Hiroshima Lectures: 80
  • Number of attendees: 4,000

For more information on past events, please see below. 

PEACE AND INDIGENOUS CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT IN AFGHANISTAN: PRESENT CONTEXT AND FUTURE PROSPECTS

  • Musa Kamawi, Director, Human Resources for the Ministry Finance, Kabul
  • Haruyuki Shimada, Advisor, JICA
  • Osamu Yoshida, Professor, Hiroshima University
  • Infonote

28 November 2012, Hiroshima

PROSPECTS OF PEACE AND INDIGENOUS CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT IN POST-2014 AFGHANISTAN (33rd HiPeC Seminar)

  • Musa Kamawi, Director, Human Resources for the Ministry Finance, Kabul
  • Haruyuki Shimada, Advisor, JICA
  • Siddiqi Hedayatullah, Postgraduate Student, Hiroshima University
  • In association with Hiroshima University Partnership Project for Peacebuilding and Capacity Development (HiPeC)

28 November 2012, Hiroshima

HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION

  • Luis Gallegos, the Permanent Representative of Ecuador, United Nations
  • Infonote

20 June 2012, Hiroshima

WORLD HERITAGE SITES: MAINTAINING VALUES

4 June 2012, Hiroshima

THE CHALLENGE OF MULTILATERAL DIPLOMACY

  • Carlos Lopes, Assistant-Secretary General of the United Nations and Executive Director, UNITAR
  • Infonote

30 March 2012, Hiroshima

THE STORY OF HIROSHIMA AND THE POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION OF AFGHANISTAN: WHAT PARALLELS?

  • Alex Mejia, Head, UNITAR Hiroshima Office
  • Musa Kamawi, Ministry of Financa of Afghanistan
  • Infonote

21 February 2012, Hiroshima

INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE TOWARDS IRAQI POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION

  • H.E. Lukman Faily, Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq to Japan

8 December 2011, Hiroshima

THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS - GOAL VIII: DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT

  • Benno Gaessler, Mazda Motor Corporation
  • Infonote

24 November 2011, Hiroshima

THINKING ON THE MEANING OF THE CITY OF HIROSHIMA

  • Alex Mejia, Head, UNITAR Hiroshima Office

29 September 2011, Hiroshima

PEACE FROM DISASTERS: INDIGENOUS INITIATIVES ACROSS COMMUNITIES, COUNTRIES AND CONTINENTS

  • Berin McKenzie, Specialist, UNITAR Hiroshima Office

19 September 2011, Hiroshima

GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP AND THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT

  • Berin McKenzie, Specialist, UNITAR Hiroshima Office

9 August 2011, Hiroshima

WORLD HERITAGE SITES: WHO ARE THE STAKEHOLDERS?

  • Montira Horayangura Unakul, UNESCO
  • Duncun Marshall, ICOMOS
  • Cristi Nozawa, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas

6 July 2011, Hiroshima

THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS - GOAL V: IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH

  • H.E. Sayed M. Amin Fatimie, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to Japan

30 May 2011, Hiroshima

DIALOGUES ON PEACE: HUMAN RIGHTS AND PEACE; THE CASE OF HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION

13 May 2011, Hiroshima

THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS - GOAL II: ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION

6 April 2011, Hiroshima

THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS - GOAL III: PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN

8 March 2011, Hiroshima

THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS - GOAL I: END POVERTY AND HUNGER

31 January 2011, Hiroshima

 

THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS: IS FIVE MORE YEARS ENOUGH?

20 October 2010, Hiroshima

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND CAPACITY BUILDING IN DEVELOPING NATIONS

  • Kuniaki Nagata, Director General, JICA Chugoku

30 May 2010, Hiroshima

GENDER ISSUES: THE INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK AND A JAPANESE PERSPECTIVE

  • Kiriko Sakata, Vice Executive in Charge of Gender Equality and Professor, Hiroshima University

11 March 2010, Hiroshima

THE STRATEGIC APPROACH TO INTERNATIONAL CHEMICALS MANAGEMENT AND NANOTECHNOLOGY/MANUFACTURED NANOMATERIALS: INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES

  • Carolyn Vickers, Team Leader, Chemical Safety, World Health Organization (WHO)
  • Craig Boljkovac, Manager, Chemicals and Waste Management Programme, UNITAR
  • Shuhi Tamura, Deputy Director, Chemical Management Policy Division, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)

2 March 2010, Hiroshima

THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS AND JAPAN'S FUTURE

  • Osamu Yoshida, Professor, Hiroshima University

27 January 2010, Hiroshima

THE IMPORTANCE OF HISTORY AND CULTURE IN POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION: REFLECTIONS FROM HIROSHIMA TO AFGHANISTAN

  • Eklil A. Hakimi, Afghanistan Ambassador to Japan
  • Akira Tashiro, Director, Hiroshima Peace Media Center

5 November 2009, Hiroshima

SERIES ON THE EVOLVING ROLE OF PEACE MUSEUMS IN THE 21ST CENTURY: PARTS II AND III

  • Mitsuyoshi Taira, Director, Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum
  • Koichiro Maeda, Director, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
  • Yasuo Harada, Director, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

16 October 2009, Hiroshima

WHAT CAN JAPAN DO TO CREATE A KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOCIETY?

  • Kiyoshi Kurokawa, Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Former Special Advisor to the Cabinet
  • Shigeru Miyagawa, Professor of Linguistics and Professor of Japanese Language and Culture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

26 June 2009, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Hiroshima

A-BOMB DOME AND ITSUKUSHIMA SHRINE: WHAT WILL THEY BE LIKE IN 100 YEARS? PANEL DISCUSSION ON WORLD HERITAGE SITES

24 April 2009, Hiroshima

POWER OF DIVERSITY TO CREATE PEACE IN A KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOCIETY

  • Carlos Lopes, Assistant-Secretary General of the United Nations and Executive Director, UNITAR

19 March 2009, Hiroshima

AFGHANISTAN'S RECONSTRUCTION: CHALLENGES AND COMMITMENTS: PANEL DISCUSSION ON AFGHANISTAN

10 November 2008, Embassy of Afghanistan, Tokyo

JAPAN AND KAZAKHSTAN: COOPERATION AND EXCHANGE

  • H.E. Akylbek A. Kamaldinov, Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan to Japan

23 October 2008, Hiroshima

NPT REGIME CHANGE: HAS THE GOOD BECOME THE ENEMY OF THE BEST?

  • Ramesh Thakur, Professor, Distinguished Fellow, Center for International Governance Innovation, Canada

18 September 2008, Hiroshima

FROM TICAD IV, TOKYO TO G8 SUMMIT, TOYAKO

  • Kenzo Oshima, Senior Vice-President, The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Tokyo

12 June 2008, Hiroshima

THE BUILT HERITAGE OF HIROSHIMA - WHAT CAN WE KEEP IN THE 21ST CENTURY?

  • Shigeru Aoki, Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University, President, Shigeru Aoki Architects and Associates

22 May 2008, Hiroshima

CONSERVATION FOR PEACE - CAN WORLD HERITAGE SITES CONTRIBUTE TO PEACE? PANEL DISCUSSION ON WORLD HERITAGE SITES

4 April 2008, Hiroshima

VISUALISING CULTURES

  • Shigeru Miyagawa, Professor, Linguistics, Japanese Language and Culture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

21 February 2008, Hiroshima

ENSURING COGNITIVE AND PHYSICAL ACCESS TO CULTURAL HERITAGE

  • Julia Cassim, Senior Research Fellow, The Royal College of Art Helen Hamlyn Center, London

14 February 2008, Hiroshima

REFLECTIONS ON SWISS-JAPANESE TIES AND FUTURE PROSPECTS

  • H.E. Paul Fivat, Ambassador of Switzerland to Japan

6 December 2007, Hiroshima

VOICES OF AFGHANISTAN - LESSONS, CHALLENGES AND HOPES

  • H.E. Haron Amin, Ambassador of Afghanistan to Japan

16 November 2007, Hiroshima

HUMAN SECURITY AND UN ACTIVITIES

  • Charmine Koa, Director, United Nations Information Centre (UNIC), Tokyo

1 November 2007, Hiroshima

RUSSIA’S PERCEPTIONS OF THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION
  • Mikhail M. Bely, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Japan

11 October 2007, Hiroshima

BUILDING A CULTURE OF PEACE: THE SHORT-TERM PRIORITIES

  • Steven Lloyd Leeper, Chairperson, Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation

30 August 2007, Hiroshima

TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE URBAN FUTURES

  • Hans van Ginkel, Rector, United Nations University

20 June 2007, Hiroshima

INNOVATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN: TRANSFORMING FRAILTIES TO STRENGTH, SEEKING PROSPERITY AND PEACE FOR ALL

  • Monte Cassim, President, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Vice Chancellor, Ritsumeikan Trust

17 May 2007, Hiroshima

SIGNS OF HOPE – PROSPECTS FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT

  • Kathleen Sullivan, Disarmament Educator and Anti-nuclear Specialist

30 March 2007, Hiroshima

RECENT TRENDS – WHAT CHANCE FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT?

  • Ramesh Thakur, Senior Vice Rector, United Nations University, Tokyo

15 February 2007, Hiroshima

IMAGINING A MORE CREATIVE BRAIN THROUGH DRAWING?

  • Kristin Newton, Artistic Director, Right Brain Research, Tokyo

8 December 2006, Hiroshima

TURKEY AT THE CROSSROADS OF CIVILIZATIONS AND ITS GEO-STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE IN FOREIGN POLICY

  • Solmaz Unaydin, Ambassador of Turkey to Japan

1 December 2006, Hiroshima

THE SEARCH FOR HUMAN CAPACITY AND HUMAN SECURITY IN POST-CONFLICT AFGHANISTAN

  • H.E. Haron Amin, Ambassador of Afghanistan to Japan

17 November 2006, Hiroshima

MESSAGE OF HIROSHIMA FOR TODAY’S WORLD: DIALOGUE WITH UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION BOARD MEMBERS

28 October 2006, Hiroshima

OUTLOOK ON SUSTAINABLE FOOD SECURITY FROM OUR OCEANS- A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE SETO INLAND SEA: PANEL DISCUSSION ON SEA AND HUMAN SECURITY

4 October 2006, Hiroshima

CULTURAL IDENTITY AND NATIONALISM

  • Suvidhya Simaskul, Ambassador of Thailand to Japan

21 September 2006, Hiroshima

ROUNDTABLE WITH AMBASSADOR OF IRAQ TO JAPAN AND SULAYMANIA UNIVERSITY FACULTY AND STUDENTS

  • Ghanim Al-Jumaily, Ambassador of Iraq to Japan

7 August 2006, Hiroshima

THE MANAGEMENT OF POST GENOCIDE CHALLENGES

  • Emile Rwamasirabo, Ambassador of Rwanda to Japan

6 April 2006, Hiroshima

THE A-DOME DOME AND ITSUKUSHIMA SHRINE- WORLD HERITAGE SITES IN HIROSHIMA: PANEL DISCUSSION ON WORLD HERITAGE SITES

16 March 2006, Hiroshima

SCIENCE FOR SELF DISCOVERY IN THE 21ST CENTURY - HUMAN BODY AND ITS CONNECTION TO THE MIND

  • Yoriko Atomi, Professor, Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo

24 February 2006, Hiroshima

THE POST-CONFLICT EXPERIENCES OF CAMBODIA AND ITS CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE FUTURE

  • Pou Sothirak, Cambodian Ambassador to Japan

26 January 2006, Hiroshima

GOVERNANCE AND RECONSTRUCTION: OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE NEW IRAQ IN THE WORLD'S MULTILATERAL INSTITUTIONS

  • H.E. Ghanim Al-Jumaily, Ambassador of Iraq to Japan
  • Marcel Boisard, UN Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Director, UNITAR
  • Hideaki Shinoda, Associate Professor of Peace Sciences, Hiroshima University

12 December 2005, Hiroshima

JAPAN-INDIA RELATIONS IN THE NEW ASIAN ERA

  • H.E. Manilal Tripathi, Indian Ambassador to Japan

24 November 2005, Hiroshima

AFGHAN NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY FOR THE POST-BONN PERIOD

  • H.E. Haron Amin, Ambassador of Afghanistan to Japan

28 October 2005, Hiroshima

THE POLICIES AND STANCES OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN AFTER THE RECENT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

  • H.E. Mohsen Talaei, Iranian Ambassador to Japan

13 October 2005, Hiroshima

CANADA’S NEW INTERNATIONAL POLICY PRIORITIES

  • H.E. Robert G. Wright, Canadian Ambassador to Japan

9 May 2005, Hiroshima

G8 Priorities in 2005

  • Graham Holbrook Fry, UK Ambassador to Japan

14 April 2005, Hiroshima

THE FUTURE OF INDEPENDENT HUMANITARIAN ACTION

  • Pierre Kraehenbuehl, Director of Operations, ICRC

27 January 2005, Hiroshima

THE UNITED NATIONS AFTER IRAQ: DANGERS AND OPPORTUNITIES

  • Ramesh Thakur, Senior Vice Rector, United Nations University

17 January 2005, Hiroshima

THE ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE IN A CONTEMPORARY WORLD

  • Hisashi Owada
  • Judge, The International Court of Justice

27 October 2004, Hiroshima

SCIENTISTS IN THE 21ST CENTURY: WHAT NEW ROLE IN SOCIETY?

  • Kiyoshi Kurokawa, President, Science Council of Japan

19 October 2004, Hiroshima

AUSTRALIA AND EAST ASIA: DO WE FIT?

  • H.E. John McCarthy, Australian Ambassador to Japan

19 August 2004, Hiroshima

DISARMAMENT: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN THE DECADE AHEAD

  • Nobuyasu Abe, Under-Secretary General for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations

6 August 2004, Hiroshima

1905, A WONDER YEAR IN BERN: EINSTEIN’S DISCOVERY OF THE RELATIVITY THEORY
  • Peter Jezler, Director, History Museum of Bern, Bern’s Culture Project

17 June 2004, Hiroshima

POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION, WOMEN AND THE CONSTITUTION

  • Beate Sirota Gordan, Asia Expert and Author

5 November 2003, Hiroshima

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