Seoul International Women’s Peace Symposium
#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
