Peace, Human Security and Dignity Week
Time For Peace
UN Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Peace Boat
Discussion
- Peace, Human Security, Disarmament/Nuclear Non-Proliferation, International Cooperation
| Transmission of simultaneous interpretation | Not provided |
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| Language of interpretation | English |
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Theme Weeks CONNECT
- * 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.
- Time and
Date of
the event -
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2025.08.10[Sun]
15:30 ～ 20:00
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- Venue
- Theme Weeks Connect (Outside Venue)
- Onboard the ‘Pacific World’ passenger ship (Osaka Tempozan Cruise Terminal, 3-chōme-11-8 Chikkō, Minato Ward, Osaka, 552-0021)
Programme details
This special event will be held aboard the Pacific World, Peace Boat’s 78,000-ton passenger ship. As an official event of the Theme Weeks Connect under the Peace, Human Security, and Dignity Theme Week at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, this reception will serve as a unique occasion for dialogue and exchange among global stakeholders dedicated to promoting peace, human security, and dignity. The reception aims to foster meaningful international cooperation by convening representatives of Expo 2025 pavilions, government officials, representatives of international and non-governmental organizations, artists, scholars, youth leaders, and media professionals engaged in peacebuilding and the promotion of human dignity.
Cast
Speakers
Maher Nasser
UN
Maher Nasser has over 36 years of work experience in the United Nations System during which he has worked in Amman, Cairo, Dubai, Gaza, New York and Vienna. He is currently the Director of Outreach in the United Nations Department of Global Communications.
Maher leads the Department’s engagement with civil society, academia, sports / football and the creative community, including the advertising industry and was recently appointed as the Commissioner-General of the United Nations at Expo 2025 in Osaka, Kansai, Japan.
Maher Nasser is a reluctant runner and is married with three grown children.
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Izumi Nakamitsu
United Nations
Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu has served as UN Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs since 1 May 2017. Before this, she was Assistant Administrator of the Crisis Response Unit at UNDP. She has extensive experience in and outside the UN system, including as Special Adviser on the follow-up to the 2016 Refugee and Migrant Summit, Director of the Asia and Middle East Division in UN Peacekeeping, and Director of Policy, Evaluation and Training.
From 2005 to 2008, she was a Professor of International Relations at Hitotsubashi University and served as a senior adviser on peacebuilding for JICA and as a Foreign Ministry council member. She also held senior roles at International IDEA in Sweden and worked with the UN Reform Team under Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Earlier, she served with UNHCR in various capacities, including in the former Yugoslavia, Turkey, and northern Iraq.
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Tatsuya Yoshioka
Peace Boat
Yoshioka Tatsuya is the founder of Peace Boat, an NGO established in 1983, and has dedicated over 40 years to international work in education, peace, and sustainability. An NGO in Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council and a global campaigner for the SDGs, Peace Boat has organized over 100 worldwide voyages for peace, engaging more than 80,000 people in study, peacebuilding, volunteering, and cultural exchange. Peace Boat's programs have included peace education for youth from conflict zones, ocean and climate capacity-development youth programs, and disaster relief initiatives. Peace Boat is an International Steering Group member of ICAN, the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate organization. Yoshioka is Board Chair of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC), and has addressed the United Nations on topics including a Culture of Peace, ocean protection and the climate crisis. Yoshioka leads Peace Boat's Ecoship Project to develop the world's most sustainable cruise ship.
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Terumi Tanaka
Nihon Hidankyo
Born in 1932 in northeastern China, Tanaka graduated from the Tokyo University of Science Department of Physics with a Doctor of Engineering. He moved to Nagasaki in 1938 following the death of his father, where on August 9, 1945, in his first year at Nagasaki Prefectural Junior High School, he was exposed to the atomic bomb 3.2 kilometers from the hypocenter. The lives of five family members were taken instantly. Since 1972 he has been involved in the Hibakusha movement, serving as an officer of the Miyagi Prefecture A-bomb Victims Association and Nihon Hidankyo (Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations). He became Secretary-General of Nihon Hidankyo in 2000 and Co-Chair in 2017.
In December 2024, Tanaka delivered the Nobel Lecture at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony on behalf of Nihon Hidankyo. Co-chair of the Japan NGO Network for Nuclear Weapons Abolition and President of the Japan Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
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Peace, Human Security and Dignity Week
Time For Peace
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2025.08.10[Sun]
15:30～20:00
(Venue Open 15:30)
- Theme Weeks Connect (Outside Venue)
- * 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.
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