Date

Programs

Venue

Oct. 5 (Mon)

6:00-8:00

Welcoming Dinner

(hosted by Washington Coalition for Comfort Women's Issues, National Association of Korean Americans,

Bongha Washington )

Oct. 6 (Tue)

10:00-10:15

Opening Remarks : Shawn McHale

Director, Sigur Center for Asian Studies

Welcoming Remarks : Sunjong Lee

Co-chairperson, 2009 Northeast Women’s Peace Conference

President, Seoul Parish of Won-Buddhism

10:15-12:00

Session I : Keynote Speech

"Peace in Northeast Asia: the Dream of All Women"

Speaker : Myungsook Han,

Former Prime Minister of Republic of Korea

"Peace and Stability in Korea and Northeast Asia and the Role of the International community"

Speaker : Hazel Smith,

Professor, Cranfield University, UK

Questions & Answers

* Moderator : Cora Weiss,

  President, Hague Appeal for Peace

The State Room

(7th Floor)

GWU

12:00-1:30

Luncheon 

(12:00-12:45 : Press Conference)

1:30-4:30

Session II Country Reports on Building Peace in Northeast Asia

Japan : Kozue Akibayashi, International Vice President of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and Associate Professor, College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University

Russia : Lebedeva Nina Boresovna, Member of the Women's Union of Russia, Leading Scholar at the Institute of Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

United States : Karen Jacob, Chair, Women's Action for New Directions

South Korea : Jeong Sook Hahn, Board Member, Women Making Peace and Professor, Department of Western History, Seoul National University

(China : Sun Jisheng, Dean of the Department of English and International Studies, China Foreign Affairs University)

* Moderator : Patricia Morris,

  Executive Director, Peace x Peace

The State Room

(7th Floor)

GWU

5:00-6:00

Closing Session

Ambassador Melanne S. Verveer,

U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues

"Women's Role in Peace Making"

Reception

※ This is a joint session with the Elliott School's Distinguished Women in International Affairs Series.

City View Room

(7th Floor)

GWU

Oct. 7 (Wed)

Closed Meeting

9:00-11:30

Strategic Meeting I

11:30-12:30

Lunch

 GWU

1:00-5:00

Congressional Visit

(co-organized by AFSC and WAND)

US Congress

6:00-9:00

Reception / Networking meeting

(hosted by Peace X Peace)

 Peace X Peace

Oct. 8 (Thur)

Closed Meeting

10:00-12:00

Meetings with the US State Department officials

12:00-2:00

Lunch

 AFSC office

2:00-5:00

Strategic Meeting II

6:00-9:00

Farewell Dinner