Peace, Human Security and Dignity Week
Peace-building & realization
Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition
The programme, together with the General Sponsors, explores: 'As antagonism between countries, races & religions continues, what must be achieved for peace-building beyond these viewpoints?'
Discussion
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| Transmission of simultaneous interpretation | Provided |
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| Language of interpretation | Japanese and English |
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Organised Programme
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2025.08.12[Tue]
13:30 ～ 15:30
(Venue Open 13:00)
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- Theme Weeks Studio
Programme details
This session considers peace, security and human rights in the light of sustainability. Peace is a necessary element of sustainability, and sustainability requires peace; therefore peace and sustainability can be considered as different sides of the same coin. However, we often face destructions to peace and to sustainability. Why is it so? And how can we overcome obstacles? This session explores answers to these questions by shedding lights on individual behaviors, collective actions and normative thinking. The variety of background that the panelists have will make the discussion truly global and multi-dimensional, which is also an integral part of the essence of the issue at hand. The background varies from macro perspective to micro perspective, from social actions to arts, from physical action to psychological action, and more. Please be looking forward to dynamic discussion and to feeling how diversity can create dynamic ideas.
*Simultaneous interpretation is available in both English and Japanese. Please bring a smartphone, tablet or other internet-enabled device with earphones to listen.
Subtitles for this program are available at the URL below.
EXPO2025 Theme Weeks 「Peace-building & realization」
<Subtitles URL>https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88920025514
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Please note that the accuracy of the translation results is not guaranteed.
This session will include a question and answer session during the program. Please submit your questions via the URL below.
https://app.sli.do/event/s84Mc1LZxYL5WWFq7G1jkn
Cast
Moderator
Norichika Kanie
Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University Representative of xSDG Laboratory of the SFC Research Institute, Keio University
After working as a lecturer and assistant professor at the Private University of Kitakyushu and associate professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, he has been in his current position since 2015. He was appointed by the UN Secretary-General as one of the 15 independent scientists to write the 2023 edition of the Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR), an assessment report on the SDGs published every four years by the UN. He is also a member of the Roundtable on the SDGs Promotion Headquarters of the Government of Japan, a member of the Cabinet Secretariat for Regional Development Promotion's Expert Group on Municipal SDGs Promotion, and a member and ambassador of the Earth Commission, among many other international and domestic research and policy-related activities focusing on the SDGs and global environmental issues.
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Speakers
Tareq Hadhad
Founder and CEO, Peace by Chocolate
Tareq Hadhad is telling his story. He was a Syrian refugee and now living his new life with his entrepreneurial family on Canada’s east coast. He is the founder and CEO of Peace by Chocolate. Passionate about peace and entrepreneurship, his family relaunched the family business to recreate the chocolates they exported across the Middle East and their story turned into an international inspiring phenomenon.Tareq has done over 1000 interviews with news teams across the globe and is a keynote speaker who talks about his family’s compelling story, the positive impact of Syrian newcomers and the spirit of entrepreneurship. Most recently, he was recognized as one of the Top 50 CEOs in Atlantic Canada by Atlantic Business Magazine.
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Pashtana Dorani
Executive Director, LEARN Afghan
Pashtana Durrani is an international scholar at the Wellesley Centers for Women. She is an Afghan human rights activist and community development expert who focuses on girls’ education. While at WCW, she continues in her capacity as a practitioner to develop models that support Afghan women and girls pursuing education and the health of Afghan mothers and infants. Durrani founded LEARN Afghanistan (@LearnAfg), a grassroots organization established to safely and securely educate girls through a distributed network of tablet computers using an offline platform. Through LEARN, she has educated 7,000 girls and boys in Kandahar, Afghanistan, and trained more than 80 teachers in digital literacy. LEARN also focuses on girls’ health and has trained 700 girls in menstrual hygiene management. Pashtana through LEARN runs six underground secret schools in Kandahar, Helmand, Daikundi, Samangan, Herat and Bamyan. These schools educate 700 girls daily. Pashtana Durrani served as a global youth representative for Amnesty International from 2017 to 2019. In recognition of her exceptional efforts to improve education for Afghan girls, she was named an Education Champion by the Malala Fund in 2020. Durrani's innovative approach to addressing complex global challenges earned her the 2021 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Emerging Leader Prize. She was also honored as one of the BBC's 100 Influential Women in 2021 and participated in #Times100talks in 2022. A graduate of the New Voices Fellowship in 2022, Durrani received the UN Young Activists Award 2022. Her accolades include the CEU Open Society Prize in 2023, the Global Citizen Award for Human Rights in 2023, the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award in 2023, and the Women’s Excellence Award from the World Economic Forum in 2024. Currently, she is pursuing her Master's degree at Harvard University.
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Oi Ayako
Senior Director, Office for Peacebuilding, Governance and Peacebuilding Department, Japan International Cooperation Agency
Oi Ayako, started her career as a journalist at Nippon Television Network. In 2002, she covered the International Conference on the Reconstruction Assistance to Afghanistan, and decided to get involved in peace and reconstruction work. After obtaining a Master’s degree in Governance and Development at the UK’s Institute of Development Studies, she joined UNDP Timor-Leste to support the return and reintegration of IDPs, and then the Embassy of Japan in Afghanistan focusing on the regional reconstruction. Since joining JICA in 2013, she worked with the South Sudan Office and the Africa Department before assuming the position of the Deputy Representative of the Afghanistan Office, and then as the Senior Director of Office for Peacebuilding in 2024.
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Katsuhiko Hibino
President, Tokyo University of the Arts
Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1958. Katsuhiko Hibino began his career as an artist in the early 1980s while studying at Tokyo University of the Arts, and has attracted much attention for his expansion of the field of expression that combines social media and art activities. Since then, he has participated in solo exhibitions, group exhibitions, and a variety of cross-disciplinary activities both in Japan and abroad, including the Sydney Biennale and the Venice Biennale. He also continues to promote workshops and art projects that take advantage of the characteristics of local locations. He is currently the director of The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu and the Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, and has been engaged in education and research at his alma mater, Tokyo University of the Arts, since 1995, and has served as president since 2022. He has launched the Art Future Research Center, pursues further possibilities for art in the modern world, actively collaborates with companies and local governments, and continues to research and practice the idea that "art is the power to live."
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Peace, Human Security and Dignity Week
Peace-building & realization
The programme, together with the General Sponsors, explores: 'As antagonism between countries, races & religions continues, what must be achieved for peace-building beyond these viewpoints?'
-
2025.08.12[Tue]
13:30～15:30
(Venue Open 13:00)
- Theme Weeks Studio
- * Programme times and content are subject to change. Any changes will be announced on this website and via the ticket booking system.
- * The schedule is subject to change depending on the organiser's circumstances.
Reservations are required for this programme.
Booking typically opens with the '2-month advance lottery.' Click below for details.
* Arrive early; latecomers may not be admitted.
For more information about making a reservation to watch a programme.
Please watch the Virtual Studio if you are outside the venue.
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