Posted in: Newsletters
Dear Friend,
Two weeks ago the Biden administration released its National Security Strategy, and China just wrapped up its Communist Party Congress. What will the growing U.S.-China rivalry mean for peace on the Korean Peninsula, and what can we do to change course to avert a devastating conflict?
Find out tomorrow, October 26 at 10 AM ET, in a discussion with the authors of a new report, U.S.-China Competition and the Korean Peninsula: From Confrontation to Peacebuilding. They’ll discuss the implications of the U.S.-China rivalry on the Korean Peninsula as well as the opportunity that regional peacebuilding presents for U.S.-China cooperation. Click here to register.
Speakers:
Dong Jin Kim, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow in Peace and Reconciliation Studies at the University of Dublin
Youkyoung Ko, Consultant at Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Colleen Moore, Advocacy Director of Women Cross DMZ
Moderator: Jake Werner, Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute
Kevin Gray is a Professor in International Relations at the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex. His research expertise relates to the political economy of East Asian development. He is the author (with Jong-Woon Lee) of North Korea and the Geopolitics of Development (2021), as well as Korean Workers and Neoliberal Globalisation (2007) and Labour and Development in East Asia: Social Forces and Passive Revolution (2015).
Dong Jin is an ISE Senior Research Fellow in Peace and Reconciliation Studies at Trinity College Dublin. His research interests are in the areas of peacebuilding, humanitarian and development cooperation, and comparative studies of peace processes in conflict-affected countries, including Korea and Ireland. He is the author of The Korean Peace Process and Civil Society: Towards Strategic Peacebuilding (2019) and co-editor of Reconciling Divided States: Peace Processes in Ireland and Korea (2022).
YouKyoung Ko is a Consultant for the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and the women-led Korea Peace Now Campaign. She is based in Seoul. She is the former executive director of the National Campaign for Eradication of Crimes by US Troops in Korea, and an expert with years of experience in the impacts of the US-ROK alliance and US Forces’ military presence in Korea.
Colleen Moore is the Advocacy Director at Women Cross DMZ, a global movement of women mobilizing for peace in Korea, where she leads legislative and advocacy strategy to build the political will for peace in Korea. She is a policy, advocacy, and campaign strategy professional, with experience in leading campaigns on progressive foreign policy and national security issues. Her analysis and commentary have been featured in publications such as the Hill, the National Interest, Common Dreams, and Ms. Magazine.
Jake Werner is a Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute. He was a Postdoctoral Global China Research Fellow at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago, after which he taught social theory and Chinese history as a Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the University of Chicago Society of Fellows. At the GDP Center, Jake is researching the emergence of great power conflict between the US and China following the 2008 financial crisis and how new strategies for global development could resolve those tensions.