APLN at the Jeju Forum 2020

The APLN hosted four special sessions at the Jeju Forum 2020: Reinventing Multilateral Cooperation- Pandemic and Humane Security featuring senior network APLN members and experts, including former Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd, Retired Pakistani Army General Feroz Khan, and former UN Under-Secretary General for Disarmament Issues Nobuyasu Abe, who discussed and debated major security challenges whilst reimagining the means to address them.

Session 1: Meeting the Existential Threats of the Pandemic, Nuclear War, and Climate Change: Is Present Global and Regional Governance Fit for Purpose?

Panelists:

• Gareth Evans, APLN Chair and Distinguished Honorary Professor of Australian National University (Moderator)
• Dong-ik Shin, Former South Korean Ambassador to Austria
• Kevin Rudd, Former Prime Minister of Australia
• Mely Caballero Anthony, Professor at International Relations, Nanyang Technological University
• Des Browne, Vice-President of Nuclear Threat Initiative

Session 2: Reinvigorating Nuclear Arms Control Agreements

Panelists:

• Gareth Evans, APLN Chair and Distinguished Honorary Professor of Australian National University (Moderator)
• Dong-ik Shin, Former South Korean Ambassador to Austria
• Kevin Rudd, Former Prime Minister of Australia
• Mely Caballero Anthony, Professor at International Relations, Nanyang Technological University
• Des Browne, Vice-President of Nuclear Threat Initiative

Session 3: Achieving a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone in Northeast Asia

Panelists:

• Chung-in Moon, Chair of Sejong Institute and APLN Vice-Chair (Moderator)
• Shen Dingli, Professor at Institute of International Studies of Fudan University
• Tatsujiro Suzuki, Vice Director and Professor at the Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition of Nagasaki University
• Bong-geun Jun, Professor of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy
• Peter Hayes, Director of Nautilus Institute and APLN Research Director

Session 4: The China-India-Pakistan Nuclear Triangle

Panelists:

• Ramesh Thakur, Emeritus Professor of the Australian National University (Moderator)
• Tong Zhao, Senior Fellow, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
• Manpreet Sethi, Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Air Power Studies
• Feroz Khan, Retired Pakistani Army General
• Sang-hyun Lee, Senior Research Fellow at the Sejong Institute

More details can be found here.