Hiroshima Round Table 2018Hiroshima for Global Peace

Hiroshima Round Table 2018

Hiroshima Prefecture organizes Hiroshima Round Table to bring together East Asia countries to discuss steps towards nuclear disarmament and arms control in East Asia, as part of the “Supporting the Roadmap for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons” agenda in the 2011 “Hiroshima for Global Peace Plan”. Nuclear abolition and international relations experts from Japan Australia, China, Korea, America and other countries have gathered since the first round table in 2013 and Hiroshima Round Table 2018 is the sixth round table.

Date: Wednesday, August 22 – Thursday, August 23, 2018

Venue: Grand Prince Hotel Hiroshima (Minami-ku, Hiroshima City)

Conference Theme: Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and Nuclear Disarmament in East Asia

Chairman’s Statement

https://hiroshimaforpeace.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/334951.pdf

Participants (23 persons)

Japan	Nobuyasu ABE Former UN Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs
Japan	Nobumasa AKIYAMA Professor Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University
Japan	Kiichi FUJIWARA Professor Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo
Japan	Nobuharu IMANISHI Director Arms Control and Disarmament Division Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Japan	Wakana MUKAI Assistant Professor Faculty of International Relations, Asia University
Japan	Shinsuke TOMOTSUGU Associate Professor The Center for Peace, Hiroshima University
Japan	Hirofumi TOSAKI Senior Fellow Center for the Promotion of Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Japan Institute of International Affairs
Japan	Hidehiko YUZAKI Governor, Hiroshima Prefecture
Australia	Ramesh THAKUR Professor, Australian National University; Co-Convenor, Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN)
China	FAN Jishe Senior Fellow & Director for Strategic Studies Institute of American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
China	SHEN Dingli Professor, Fudan University
ROK	CHUN Yungwoo Chairman, Korean Peninsula Future Forum; Former Senior Secretary to the President for Foreign Affairs and National Security
ROK	HAN Yong-sup Professor, Korea National Defense University
ROK	MOON Chung-in Professor Emeritus, Yonsei University; Special Advisor to the President for Foreign Affairs and National Security; Co-Convenor, Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN)
Russia	Aleksandr VORONTSOV Head, Korean Department, Institute of Oriental Studies Russian Academy of Sciences
Sweden	Sibylle BAUER Director of Studies, Armament and Disarmament Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
Switzerand	John BORRIE Chief of Research United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
UK	Beyza UNAL Senior Research Fellow Nuclear Weapons Policy, International Security Department Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House)
USA	G. John IKENBERRY Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs Princeton University
USA	Jeffrey LEWIS Director, East Asia Nonproliferation Program James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
USA	Joan ROHLFING President & COO, Nuclear Threat initiative (NTI)
USA	Scott D. SAGAN Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science Stanford University
USA	Jon WOLFSTHAL Director, Nuclear Crisis Group & Senior Advisor, Global Zero; Former Senior Director for Arms Control and Nonproliferation at the National Security Council