03. Events & Other Activities Archive

GPI Roundtable (9th in Washington, DC)*
Global Issue Discussion Series (Part 1)
Risk Communications for Public Health Disasters
―Lessons from the 2001 Anthrax Incidents

Date/Time: September 10, 2009, 6:00-7:30 PM
Venue: Center for Strategic and International Studies (5F Conference Room)
Address: 1800 K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006 U.S.A.

"Risk Communications" is a cooperative process in which information is shared among affected groups and individuals so that the risks, and the appropriate remedial actions, are well-understood by all parties. It is especially important in "invisible" public health disasters such as a pandemic influenza or a biological attack, where the risk may not be clearly understood and where public fear may be high. This discussion will cover some of the problems that occurred in risk communications during the 2001 Anthrax incidents in the United States, and may raise questions about issues of risk communications that could occur in a pandemic influenza.

　　　Speaker
　　　Leo Bosner (former Emergency Management Specialist, Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA)

　　　　　　　"Risk Communications" 　

　　　Discussant
　　　Mika Shimizu (GPI Co-Director, Visiting Scholar at the East West Center, and Abe Fellow)
　　
　　　Moderator
　　　Keisuke Nakashima (GPI Co-Director)

[Speaker's Biography]
Leo Bosner is an emergency management specialist, who has worked at Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) since its beginning in 1979 and has retired in 2008. Leo previously spent a year in Japan under the Mike Mansfield Fellowship Program, and he is currently involved in researching disaster-related issues in Japan. His publications include "Emergency Preparedness: How Japan and the United States Compare," Asia Perspectives 4, no. 2 (Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs, Spring 2002). Leo has been quoted in many publications and media including CNN, CBS, and NPR.

*We thank the CSIS Japan Chair and the Policy Reseach & Analysis Network for Japan (PRANJ) for thier generous support in holding this discussion series. The views expressed in this discussion are his/her personal views only.

GPI Roundtable (3rd, in Washingotn, DC)*
Democratization of Asia: Challenge and Agenda of Japan's Economic Diplomacy †

Japan has committed comprehensive security policy by using non-military and much economic resources such as ODA and active trade. Has it enhanced security of Japan and democratization of Asia, a critical factor for peace and stability of Asia? The seminar will scrutinize Japan's economic diplomacy and its effect on the cases concerning China and North Korea, as well as Taiwan as a counter-example to 'China model'.

Speaker
Masako Ikegami
Policy Expert Member, Global Policy Initiative and
Professor and Director, Center for Pacific Asia Studies, Stockholm University

Commentator
Michael Green
Senior Advisor & Japan Chair, CSIS and
Associate Professor, Georgetown University

Moderator
Keisuke Nakashima
Representative of PRANJ, Co-Director of GPI, and
Research Associate, CSIS Global Aging Initiative

Wednesday, April 9, 2008
6:00-8:00 p.m.
4th Floor Conference Room
Center for Strategic and International Studies
(1800 K Street, NW, Washington, DC)

Speakers' Biographies
Masako Ikegami is Professor and Director of the Center for Pacific Asia Studies (CPAS), Stockholm University since 2001. Her research ranges from empirical analyses of defense R&D and production, defense policy-making process, arms control & disarmament, to East Asian regional security and confidence building measures. She has published a number of books, monographs, and articles, including most recently “NATO and Japan: Strengthening Asian stability” in NATO Review (summer 2007). She was a POSCO Visiting Fellow in 2005 at the East-West Center, Honolulu, on 'North Korean nuclear crisis and its implications for the future East Asian security'. She is an active participant of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs on arm control & disarmament, nuclear non-proliferation and conflict prevention issues, currently as a board member of the Swedish Pugwash Group. She holds Doctor of Sociology from the University of Tokyo and Ph.D. in peace and conflict research from Uppsala University.

Michael Green is a senior adviser and holds the Japan Chair at CSIS, as well as being an associate professor of international relations at Georgetown University. He served as special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council (NSC) from January 2004 to December 2005. He joined the NSC in April 2001 as director of Asian affairs with responsibility for Japan, Korea, and Australia/New Zealand. From 1997 to 2000, he was senior fellow for Asian security at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as senior adviser in the Office of Asian and Pacific Affairs at the Department of Defense in 1997 and as consultant to the same office until 2000. From 1995 to 1997, he was a research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses, and from 1994 to 1995, he was an assistant professor of Asian studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He graduated from Kenyon College with highest honors in history in 1983 and received his M.A. from Johns Hopkins SAIS in 1987 and his Ph.D. in 1994. He also did graduate work at Tokyo University as a Fulbright fellow and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a research associate of the MIT-Japan Program.

* This roundtable was co-hosted by GPI and the Policy Research and Analysis Network for Japan (PRANJ).
† A Presentation liaison to a Grant project of the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (2007).

Global Policy Initiative (GPI) Tokyo Forum
Possibilities and Challenges for Public Policy in Japan
with Implications for Globalization

Organized by: Global Policy Initiative (GPI)
Supported by: Policy Space and Younglions

Date: July 21, 2007

Time: 1:00- 6:10 p.m.
Location: Center for Global Communications, International University of Japan

　　　 Full Agenda (in Japanese only)

　　　 Summary (in Japanese only)

Agenda
1：00-　Registration
1:30-2:00　Opening Keisuke Nakashima, GPI Co-Director Mika Shimizu, GPI Co-Director Makiko Ueno, GPI Senior Adviser Kyoichi Marukusu, Chief Editor, Policy Space Kouhei Suzuki, Representative, Younglions
2:00-2:40　Keynote Address Hirotsugu Koike, President, Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei), Europe 　　"The Challenge of Globalization to Public Policy―A Perspective from Europe"	Keynote Speaker: Hirotsugu Koike
2:40-3:40　Panel I: Seeking for a Mechanism to Engage Citizens in Global Public Polcy Formation Moderator Makiko Ueno, Professor of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University 　　"Addressing the Issue" (in Japanese only) Speakers Masako Ikegami, Professor & Director, Center for Pacific Asia Studies (CPAS), Stockholm University 　　"Foreign & Security Policy and Roles of Thinktank in Europe" Kyoichi Marukusu, Chief Editor, Policy Space and Professor of Social Sciences, Mejiro University 　　"Seeking for a Mechanism to Engage Citizens in Global Public Polcy Formation―The Current State in Japan" (in Japanese only) Mika Shimizu, Researcher, Nomura Research Institute, America 　　"The Deepening of Globalization and Public Policy―A Case of the United States" (in Japanese only)	Panel 1: (from the left) Marukusu, Ikegami, Shimizu, Ueno
3：40-3:55　Contact Break
3:55-4:55　Panel II: The Challenge of Global Aging and the Current State of Policy Coordination in East Asia Moderator Keisuke Nakashima, Research Associate, Global Aging Initiative, Center for Strategic & International Studies Speakers Takao Komine, Professor of Social Science, Hosei University 　　"How Demography Will Reshape Asia" (in Japanese only) Atsushi Seike, Professor of Labor Economics, Keio University 　　"Towards a Life-long Active Society" Naohiro Yashiro, Professor of Economics, International Christian University 　　"Creating An Economic Social Structure Befitting A Rapidly Aging Society"	Panel II: (from the left) Kominie, Seike, Yashiro
4:55-5:55　Panel III: Issues for "East Asian Community" in the Context of Energy and Environment: The Current State and Challenge of Cooperation Moderator Masanari Koike, Visiting Lecturer, Nihon University and Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo Speakers Hideaki Fujii, Senior Economist, Research Center for Environment and Development, Mitsubishi Research Institute Shoichi Itoh, Associate Senior Researcher, Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia (ERINA) Kei Karasawa, Professor Emeritus, Ritsumeikan University and Adviser, International Education Program, Tokyo International University Aki Naganuma, Journalist and Staff Reporter, Tokyo-Chunichi Shimbun Washington D.C. Bureau 　　"Interest of the United States and the Current State of Cooperation"	Panel III: (from the left) Itoh, Koike, Fujii
5:55-6:10　Closing Kei Karasawa, GPI Senior Adviser