INVITATION TO TOKYO COLLOQUIUM 2020


"Economic Warfare and Conflict:

Challenges to Peace and Stability in Northeast Asia."

On behalf of the Toda Peace Institute, Japan, and the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand, I cordially invite you to The Tokyo Colloquium 2020-- "Economic Warfare and Conflict: Challenges to Peace and Stability in Northeast Asia."

Date & Time: 14:00-17:30 March 6 (Fri), 2020

Venue: Hotel New Otani, Orizuru Mai Room (Arcade floor, Main Bldg.)

Address: 4-1 Kioi-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8578, Japan
Please confirm your attendance using the below link:

https://toda.org/events/upcoming/tokyo-colloquium-2020.html

This year's Tokyo Colloquium will explore the conflictual political and military consequences of economic warfare by which we mean tariff and trade wars and the use of other financial and fiscal instruments to promote national political interests. The general topic has to do with the future of the liberal world order in the face of economic and political nationalism.

Over the past 5 years, economic and financial instruments have been used to promote division and polarisation between states and economies as well as harmony, cooperation and global stability. This year's Tokyo Colloquium will explore:

· the economic, political and security consequences of America's tariff war with China.

· the positive and negative impacts of economic sanctions on North Korea and Iran.

· the political and security consequences of Japan's trade war with South Korea.

· ways in which financial instruments are being used to promote sovereign interests and the impacts of currency competitions and competitive devaluations on peace and stability in Northeast Asia and around the world. Negative economic instruments are having a major impact on highly integrated global production and supply chains.

· how economic and financial mechanisms can generate positive peace.


This year's Keynote Speakers are:

Professor John Paul Dunne, Recently Retired from School of Economics, University of Cape Town, South Africa, Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of the West of England, Bristol.

Ambassador Patricia Flor, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the European Union to Japan.

Dr Francesco Giumelli, Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations and International Organization, the University of Groningen.

Professor Masahiro Kawai, Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo and Representative Director and Director General, Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia (ERINA).

Mr Steve Killelea, Founder of the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), Australia and the Global Peace Index (GPI).

Lord Mark Malloch Brown, former UN Deputy Secretary-General and Head of the UNDP, Member of the House of Lords, UK and Vice Chairman of the World Economic Forum.

Professor Chung-in Moon, Special Adviser to President Moon Jae-in for national security and foreign affairs. Distinguished university professor at Yonsei University, South Korea.

Professor Naoki Tanaka, President of the Centre for International Public Policy Studies, Tokyo.

I look forward to seeing you there!

Professor Kevin P. Clements

Director, Toda Peace Institute

and
Dr Ria Shibata
Research Fellow
National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, NZ
P.O. Box 56
Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
Tel: +64-3-479-3920
Mobile: +64-21-772-338
Website: www.otago.ac.nz/ncpacs
Email: ria.shibata@otago.ac.nz