WFWPI: Sustainable peace and reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula

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CO-CREATING SPACES FOR PEACE AND RECONCILIATION ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA. WHAT STEPS ARE WOMEN TAKING TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE PEACE?

19th WFWP Europe Annual Conference/Webinar

In partnership with W FWP Korea, Korean Min istry of Inter ior and Safety, Border Meetings and Women’ s United Nations Resea rch Net work

June 4, 2021

Mrs. Mitty Tohma, WFWP Europe Vice-President Her activities range from promoting women’s leadership, valued based education programmes, empowering youth and civil society. She has organised meetings in the UK parliament to address issues of Domestic violence, empowerment, and th e dignity of women. She jointly founded the Youth Achievement awards held annually at the UK Parliament. She has been actively promoting our flagship project the ‘Young Women’s Speech Contest’; Organising the WFWP UK’s involvement in the ‘1% Love Share Project’ humanitarian assistance for children in need; she initiated the ‘Jordan Relief Refugee Project’ to raise funds to help women and children who have fled from war and oppression .

Dr. Julia Moon, President, Women’s Federation for World Peace International

Julia Moon has been serving as Director General of Universal Ballet since 1996 and is Vice Chairwoman of the Sun Hak Educational Foundation, responsible for the administration of Sun Hwa Arts Middle and High Schools and five other schools in Seoul; Co-Artistic Director of the Kirov Academy of Ballet of Washington, DC, and of Universal Ballet Academy in Seoul. Recipient of numerous awards, including th e International Society for the Performing Arts’ International Citation of Merit. President of Women’s Federation for World Peace International since 2019.

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Dr. Yang Ho Hong, Former Vice-Minister of Unification, North Korea Social Research Centre President Master’s Degree in Politics, Doctor’s Degree in: Politica l Science and Diplomacy, and Public Ad ministration; Presiden t Kook min Un iversity Future Korea Institute 2017-2020; Korean member, S. Korea-Germany Unification 2011- 2017; Unification Special Committee Chairman, The Korean Association fo r Public Administration 2011; Vice M inister of Unificatio n 2008 -2010; Chief of Planning and Ma nagement, the Ministry of Unification, Inter Korean Ta lks 2003 - 2007 Has received several Awards: Orders of Merit

Hon. Emanuela Del Re, Former Vice Minister Foreign Affairs; President of the Standing Committee on the implementation of Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development Expert on Conflict Studies, Italy Membe r of t he Italian Chamber of Deputies since 2018; Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs and Internationa l Cooperation in both President Conte Government I and II; Since March 2021 member of the Foreign Affairs Commission at the Italian Parliament. Resea rcher on field in conflict areas and areas in transition since 1990, following the socia l- political-economic transformation of countries and regions such as the Balkans, the Caucasus, No rth Africa, and the M iddle East.

************************************************************* Mme. Ximena Bartolome Tocino, Deputy Head at the Embassy of Spain in Mozambique Spanish career Diplomat 15 years, currently Deputy Head of Mission at t he Spanish Embassy in Mozambique; degree in law; speaks several languages, a Political Councillor in the Spanish Embassy in Mexico 2016-2020; Deputy Head of M ission in the Spanish Embassy in Guinea Bissau; Antici of the European Commission 2009-2013, Married to a Portugues and has three boys.

The Mirae Team, Presenting their Survey of Korean Youth on ‘’Reunification’’ ‘The Mirae’ is a project of Women’s Federation for World Peace {WFWP) Korea, which is aimed at young people aged 20s to 30s. Based on WFWP’s vision to realize one global family rooted in a culture of sustainable peace, we are planning activities to foster the next generation of women and up lift positive influence on Korean society.

YeonJu Yoo Tamami Nozoe

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Dr. Lan Young Moon, Co-Chair, Korean Council on Reconciliation and Cooperation 2003-2010 Professor, SunHak Universal Peace Graduate University Past President, now Senior Advisor, Women’s Federation for World Peace Secretary General, WFWP (For 6yrs), International President & Korea President (For 14yrs) 1994-2014; Co-Chair, Korea Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation Joint representative, All Korean Committee for the Implementation of the June 15 Joint Declaration 2001 - 2014: ~~ Visited North Korea 19 times for the reconciliation and peaceful reunification of two Koreas; Conducted ‘1% Love Share Proj ect’ for relief aid to support women and children in North Korea 1999-2014. Awards: May 1996: Certificate of Appreciation for the Contribution of Friendly Exchanges between Korea and China ** ****************** ************* ********* ************* *** *******

MC: Marcia de Abreu, WFWP EU Secretary General, Born in Brazil; married to a Spaniard; two children; College degree in Sociology, Master in Religious Education from the Unification Theological Seminary, Barrytown, New York, US. Chairperson for the Women’s Federation for World Peace in Spain for over 20 years; Secretary General for WFWP Europe; Wide experience in organizing conferences, seminars, charity events, and speech contests all related to women’s issues; Co-organized several WFWP European conferences at the European Parliament in Brussels, Albania, Spain.

“The Little Angels” South Korean Music and Dancing Group

“Pyongyang Mundharmonika Ensemble”, North Korean Music group, playin g the “ Erzh er zog Johann Jodi er”

************ ********************************************************* Mrs. Carolyn Handschin-Moser, President NGO Committee on the Status of Women, UN Geneva Coordinator for Europe & Middle East, International Association of First Ladies for Peace; Vice-President of Women’ s Federation for World Peace, International. Director of the WFWPI Office for United Nations Relations globally and has led their advocacy team at the United Nations in Geneva for 26 years. Guides the leadership and advocacy training of young women and men in the WFWPI- UN Internship Program in Geneva (2005-now) and remains active as Co-founder and program director of the “GIIA Model UN lnterreligious Youth Council” Program (2009- now).

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Dr. Anna Grichting, Founder, Border Meetings, Switzerland Keynote Speaker on Women’s DMZ Peace Development Project in Korea; Swiss architect, urbanist, and musician; Doctor of Design in Urbanism from Harvard University; Passionate about designing with, and not against, Nature and Mother Earth and going beyond our Anthropocentric view of the world to include all living organisms in a balanced development; Tea ching at Qatar University, mainly to female students, in susta inable and holistic architecture and urban design; Research on a Living Laboratory at Qatar University to co- design the campus for the Food Water Energy Nexus, interested in multidisciplinary research and projects that bring together the arts, the sciences and engineering; research focuses on Regenerative Urban systems

*********** ***** *** **************** ** *** ************* *********** ************* Prof. Kyung Do Suh, International Cooperation Plan for DMZ World Peace Park, South Korea Professor at Kumoh National Institute of Technology; Former Member of Advisory Committee for Democratic Peace and Unification (14th, 15th ) Current. Gumi Election Commission, Media and Broadcasting Subcommittee, Member of Management Committee of Government Innovation; Ministry of Public Administration and Security, Advisory Member of Korea Productivity Centre, Lecturer, Government Innovation Instructor Team. Awards: Minister of Justice Award in 2009 and Gyeongbuk Province Police Agency Award in 2015

Mr. Tomas Ojea, United Nations Special Rapporteur on DPRK, OHCHR The current Special Rapporteur, Tomas Ojea Quintana (Argentina), was appointed by the Human Rights Council in 2016.

Mr. Ojea Quintana is a lawyer from Argentina working in the field of criminal law, human rights and public interest, representing NGOs and other groups in different cases, including child abduction by military regime, sexual abuses by members of the church, and business criminal liability for human rights abuses. He is currently the attorney of a universal jurisdiction case on the abuses against Rohingyas.

Ms. Christine Ahn, Founder Korea Peace Now, (invited) Christine Ahn, Founder and Executive Director of Women Cross DMZ, a global movement of women mobilizing to end the Korean War and ensure women’s leadership in peace building. Internationa l Coord inator of the Korea Peace Now! transnational campaign, which Women Cross DMZ launched in 2019 with three other feminist peace organizations. She has addressed the United Nations, the US Congress, Canadian Parliament and the ROK National Human Rights Commission. Her op-eds have appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post, and she is a regular contributor on MSNBC, Democracy Now!, and CNN. Christine is also the co-founder of the Korea Policy Institute and the Korea Peace Network,

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Dr. Beatrice Bischof, TV Journalist and Moderator, Political Scientist, Author Board Member Foreign Affairs Association, Germany. Focus is International Policy, Interdisciplinary Innovations and Exchange, Digita lization, Sustainability. Focus on political sciences, constitutional law and literature sciences, Dr. rer. pol. with additional focus on economic and social history. Topic of Theses: Conduct of the American government in the North Korean nuclear crisis. Constellation analysis with special emphasis on American crisis behaviour. Now working as TV journalist, political scientist and author. www .beatricebischof.com

Isabella Krapf, Vicechair-Korean Cultural Center, Vienna, Austrian harmonicist and harmonica teacher. In 2011 start ed to t each in North Korea. She had 120 students - all members of a theatre group. Austrian folk music, Jazz and Latin and also North Korean songs were performed by the harmonica ensemble. in 2011 and 2012, 15 students from North Korea came to Vienna to learn harmonica. They played concerts in Vienna, Graz, Great Britain and Germany. From 2011 - 2013 Isabella Krapf visited North Korea 4 times to teach harmonica . She took about 4000 unique photos there that were displayed in several exhibitions.

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