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Hiroshima Round Table 2021

Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace 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 disarmament and international relations experts from Japan, Australia, China, Korea, the US and other countries have gathered since the first round table in 2013 and Hiroshima Round Table 2021 is the eighth round table.

Date

December 22 (Wed), 2021, 9:30-12:45 (JST)

Format

Online (Zoom)

Theme

In Search of Alternatives to Nuclear Deterrence

Chair’s Statement

Hiroshima Round Table 2021 Chair’s Statement

Participants

22 persons （Country-by-country, in alphabetical order）

	Country	Name	Position
1	Japan	Nobuyasu ABE	Former UN Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs
2	Japan	Nobumasa AKIYAMA	Professor Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University
3	Japan	Kiichi FUJIWARA	Professor Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo
4	Japan	Yoshizane ISHII	Director Arms Control and Disarmament Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
5	Japan	Shuhei KURIZAKI	Associate Professor School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University
6	Japan	Kazumi MIZUMOTO	Professor Hiroshima Peace Institute, Hiroshima City University
7	Japan	Wakana MUKAI	Associate Professor Faculty of International Relations, Asia University
8	Japan	Nobushige TAKAMIZAWA	Former Ambassador of Japan to the Conference on Disarmament
9	Japan	Hirofumi TOSAKI	Director Center for Disarmament, Science and Technology, Japan Institute of International Affairs
10	Japan	Hidehiko YUZAKI	Governor, Hiroshima Prefecture President, Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace (HOPe)
11	Australia	Gareth EVANS	Distinguished Honorary Professor, Australian National University Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Australia
12	Australia	Ramesh THAKUR	Emeritus Professor Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
13	China	SHEN Dingli	Professor Institute of International Studies, Fudan University
14	China	ZHAO Tong	Senior Fellow Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
15	ROK	JUN Bong-Geun	Professor Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security (IFANS), Korean National Diplomatic Academy (KNDA)
16	ROK	KIM Youngjun	Professor of National Security Affairs National Security College, Korea National Defense University Member, National Security Advisory Board for the Republic of Korea President
17	Sweden	Tytti ERASTO	Senior Researcher Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
18	Switzerand	Wilfred WAN	Lead Researcher WMD Programme, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
19	USA	G. John IKENBERRY	Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs Princeton University
20	USA	Jeffrey LEWIS	Director, East Asia Nonproliferation Program James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
21	USA	Scott D. SAGAN	Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science Stanford University
22	USA	Andrew C. WEBER	Senior Fellow, Council on Strategic Risk Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs

Hiroshima Round Table 2021 Public Webinar

The Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace held a public webinar at the Hiroshima Round Table 2021.

Date

December 22 (Wed), 2021, 16:00 – 17:30 (JST)

Format

Online (Zoom Webinar)

Theme

New Technologies and Nuclear Disarmament
(Since signing a partnership agreement in 2017, SIPRI and Hiroshima Prefecture have annually conducted joint research on nuclear disarmament. At this year’s webinar, the findings of last year’s research will be presented.)