#WomenPeaceKorea: Seoul International Women's Peace Symposium

This initiative describes the Seoul International Women's Peace Symposium #WomenPeaceKorea: A New Era program. 

Read or download the program below, or read the original by Women Cross DMZ here.

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#WOMENPEACEKOREA: A NEW ERA

Thursday May 24, 2018, 9:30-5 pm | National Assembly Library  Seoul, Republic of Korea

9:30 am Welcome

• Jeong-ae Ahn-Kim, Representative, Women Making Peace
• Young-Soo Han, President, National YWCA of Korea
• Soon-Young Choi, Representative, Kyunggi Women’s Network
• Hyun-Back Chung, Minister of Gender Equality and Family
• InSoon Nam, Chairwoman of Gender Equality and Family, National Assembly

10 am Keynotes

• Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, Northern Ireland
• Sung-Eun Kim, Board Chair, Women Making Peace

10:30 am Plenary: Women’s Leadership in this Historic Moment

• Jeong-Soo Kim, Board Member, Women Making Peace
• Kwang-Soon Ko-Eun, Representative, Peace Mothers
• Sung-hee Choi, Gangjeong, Jeju Island, South Korea
• Dr. Mary-Wynne Ashford, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Canada
• Lao Ki Chin, Board Member, Peace Women Across the Globe, China
• Kozue Akibayashi, International President, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Japan
• Rebecca Johnson, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), United Kingdom
• Christine Ahn, International Coordinator, Women Cross DMZ

12:30 pm Lunch

2 pm – 4:30 pm Three Concurrent Roundtables

Panel 1: Unresolved Korean War, Militarism in Asia and Pacific + Women’s Resistance

• Sung-hee Choi, Gangjeong, Jeju Island, South Korea
• Kwang-Soon Ko-Eun, Representative, Peace Mothers
• Dr. Kalama Niheu, Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific, Hawai’i
• Lisa Natividad, President, Guahan Coalition for Peace and Justice, Guam
• Medea Benjamin, Co-Founder, Code Pink, USA
• Cindy Wiesner, International Coordinator, Grassroots Global Justice, USA

Panel 2: Feminist Peacebuilding: What Is Possible, What Can Be Done? (Each speaker 8 mins)

• Jeong-Soo Jang-Lee, Representative of Women Eco United, South Korea
• Min-Jeong Kim-Moon, Representative, Women Link #MeToo, #WithYou, South Korea
• Mavic Cabrera-Balleza, Global Network of Women Peacemakers, Philippines
• Katherine Ronderos, WILPF, LIMPAL, Colombia
• Alice Nderitu, Senior Advisor, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Kenya
• Yifat Susskind, Executive Director, MADRE, USA

Panel 3: Women and Peace in Northeast Asia

• Eun-Sun Lee, National Council of Churches Korea, South Korea
• Miran Jang, Co-Representative, YWCA of Korea, South Korea
• Patti Talbot, United Church of Canada, Canada
• Olga Maltseva, Dialogue of Cultures, Russia
• Wang Xuan, Justice for Unit 731 Victims, China
• Altantsegtseg (Altaa) Noosgoi, Mongolia
• Ann Wright, Veterans for Peace, USA

4:40 Closing Remarks and Ceremony

• In-Sook Choi, Iftopia
• Mimi Han, Vice-President, YWCA International