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| Category: | Conferences |
| Album Title: | North Korea: The Human Rights and Security Nexus |
| Date: | February 19, 2016 |
| Location: | Center for Strategic and International Studies 1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, Washington D.C. 20036 Second Floor Conference Center |
| Description: | North Korea: The Human Rights and Security Nexus Organized by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK), George W. Bush Institute, National Endowment for Democracy, and Yonsei Center for Human Liberty February 19, 2016 2nd Floor Conference Center Center for Strategic and International Studies 1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036 Friday, February 19, 2015 8:30 – 9:00 AM Registration and Check-In 9:00 – 9:30 AM Opening Ceremony Greetings Victor Cha, Senior Adviser and Korea Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies and Professor, Georgetown University Welcoming Remarks Carl Gershman, President, National Endowment for Democracy Amanda Schnetzer, Director, Human Freedom, George W. Bush Institute Greg Scarlatoiu, Executive Director, Committee for Human Rights in North Korea Joseph Phillips, Research Fellow, Yonsei Center for Human Liberty; Associate Professor, Pusan National University 9:30 – 10:50 AM Accountability for Human Rights Abuses Chair: Victor Cha, Senior Adviser and Korea Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies and Professor, Georgetown University Panelists: Michael Kirby, Chair, United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea; former Justice of the Australian High Court Sonja Biserko, Member, United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea; President, Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia Signe Poulsen, Representative, United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Seoul, OHCHR 10:50 – 11:00 AM Coffee Break 11:00 – 11:45 AM Special Address Tom Malinowski, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, U.S. Department of State 11:45–12:15 PM Luncheon Break 12:15–1:30 PM Policy Prospects in 2016 Chair Lindsay Lloyd, Deputy Director, Human Freedom, George W. Bush Institute Panelists: Robert R. King, Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues, U.S. Department of State Sydney A. Seiler, Senior Adviser, Office of the Director of National Intelligence; former Special Envoy for the Six-Party Talks, U.S. Department of State Kurt Campbell, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Asia Group, LLC; former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State Michael Green, Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, CSIS; Chair in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy, Georgetown University Choi Seok-young, former ROK Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN Office in Geneva 1:30 – 1:45 PM Coffee Break 1:45 – 3:00 PM New Research on North Korean Human Rights Documentation Chair Suzanne Scholte, Co Vice-Chair, Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; President, Defense Forum Foundation Panelists: Ken E. Gause, Author of “North Korean House of Cards: Leadership Dynamics under Kim Jong-un” David Hawk, Author of “The Hidden Gulag IV: Gender Repression and Prisoner Disappearances”; Senior Advisor, Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) Joseph Bermudez Jr., Chief Analytics Officer, AllSource Analysis
Go Myong-Hyun, Research Fellow, Risk, Information and Social Policy Program, Center for Public Opinion and Quantitative Research, Asan Institute for Policy Studies Greg Scarlatoiu, Executive Director, Committee for Human Rights in North Korea 3:00 – 3:10 PM Break 3:10 – 4:25 PM Witness to Tyranny: Survival and Escape from the DPRK Chair Amanda Schnetzer, Director, Human Freedom, George W. Bush Institute Panelists: Grace Jo, Vice-President of NKinUSA Lee Sungju, Consultant, Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights (NKHR) Oh Sehyek, Researcher, Transitional Justice Working Group Baek Buhm-Suk, Assistant Professor of Public International Law, Kyung Hee University Hannah Song, President and CEO, Liberty in North Korea 4:25 – 4:30 PM Adjournment Victor Cha, Senior Adviser and Korea Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies and Professor, Georgetown University |
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