Article 9 World Conference

Guests & Speakers of Plenary Session & Sub-Sessions Plenary Session 10:00-12:30 (Capacity 800ppl
Article 9: its current situation and challenges Masahiro Takasaku(Professor, Kansai University) Speakers Jeanne Mirer (President of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers-IADL) Ann Wright (Former Army Colonel and Peace Activist, USA) Akihiko Kimijima(Professor, Ritumeikan University) Christian Guillermet-Fernandez (Costa Rican Diplomat) Lee Kyung-Ju(Inha University, Korea)

Sub-Sessions

13:30-17:00

< Session 1> Seeking a Peaceful World Without War Coordinator: Akira Kawasaki (Executive Committee Member, Peace Boat) International Speakers Belhassen Ennouri (Lawyer, Tunisia) Luis Roberto Zamora (Lawyer, Costa Rica) David Rothauser (Film director, USA) Ann Wright (Former Army Colonel and Peace Activist, USA) Jeanne Mirer (President of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers-IADL) Roland Weyl (Lawyer, France) Japan-based Speakers Ronni Alexander (Professor, Kobe University) Nahoko Takato (Iraq Aid Volunteer) <Session 2> Article 9 in East Asia Coordinator Akihiko Kimijima (Professor Ritsumeikan University) International Speakers Satoko Norimatsu (Peace Philosophy Centre, Canada) Others from Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia TBC Japan-based Speakers Wu Yue (Osaka University of Economics and Law / China) <Session 3> The Human Right to Peace Coordinator: Jun Sasamoto (Lawyer) International Speakers Ambassador Christian Guillermet-Fernandez (Costa Rican Diplomat) David Fernandez Puyana (Lawyer, Spain) Micol SaviaLawyer, Italy) Lee Kyung-Ju (Inha University, Korea) Japan-based Speakers Makoto Ito (Head of Itojuku) Shigeaki Iijima (Nagoya Gakuin University Associate Professor)

Profile of Guests

<International> Ann Wright (USA) Ann Wright spent almost 30 years serving in the US Army and Reserves, retiring as Colonel. In the Foreign Service she served as US Deputy Ambassador in Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan and Mongolia, as well as serving in many other countries around the world.She received the Award for Heroism for her actions during the evacuation of 2,500 people from the civil war in Sierra Leone. In March 2003 on the eve of the US invasion of Iraq, Ann Wright submitted her resignation to Secretary of State Colin Powell, because the invasion would be a violation of international law. Since then, she has been writing out and speaking for peace, including at the US prison at Guantnamo, against the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan, the use of drones, attacks on Gaza, and in support of whistleblowers. Lee Kyung-Ju (Korea) Professor at Inha University and member of the executive committee of the Peace and Disarmament Centre at the People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD). Learned in the right to peace and pacifism, Professor Lee is also knowledgeable about Article 9 and fluent in Japanese. He fears that amendment to the Preamble and Article 9 of Japan's constitution would pose a challenge to peace and disarmament both in Asia and internationally. David Fernandez Puyana (Spain) Lawyer and member of the International Human Rights Society in Spain. He is in charge of the international campaign for the human right to peace, now under discussion at the United Nations Human Rights Council. This international campaign was launched 2006, and assemblies have been all around the world. They have been collecting signatures internationally since 2011. Belhassen Ennouri (Tunisia) Born in 1985 and registered as lawyer with the Tunisia Bar Association in 2012. After taking a Masters degree program in U.S. law, he is now defending his doctoral dissertation on the theme of Government and the Arab Revolution. He has been interested in Article 9 after joining the workshop To protect Article 9 held at the World Social Forum in Tunisia as a panellist. Satoko Norimatsu (Canada) Born in Tokyo, Satoko Norimatsu has been living in the Canadian West Coast for 18 years. She graduated from the Keio University Faculty of Literature, and received her MBA at the University of British Colombia. After teaching cross-cultural communication, she established the peace education group Peace Philosophy Centre, which she now represents. She is an organizer of the Vancouver Article 9 Association, and regularly writes, translates and disseminates information on topics including nuclear issues and the US military bases in Okinawa in both Japanese and English through the blog of the Peace Philosophy Centre Roberto Zamora (Costa Rica) While a university student, Roberto Zamora successfully challenged his country's president for its support of the US-UK led aggression on Iraq, and as a result the withdrawal from the coalition was ordered. Following this he studied human rights law in Germany, then spent time with the NGO Peace Boat, lecturing widely throughout Japan. He now works on constitutional affairs and litigation for the protection of human rights as an independent attorney in Costa Rica, while speaking at many international conferences. David Rothauser (USA) Film director and author. He directed the film The Diary of Sacco and Vanzetti, based on what was said to be one of the biggest cases of false accusation in the United

States. His film Hibakusha, Our Life To Live, describing the lives of atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima & Nagasaki, premiered at the United Nations in 2010. He has been working to introduce a clause similar to Article 9 as an amendment to the U.S. Constitution since 2001. Ambassador Christian Guillermet-Fernandez (Costa Rica) Specialist in the fields of international relations and human rights law. After working in the Ombudsmans Office in Costa Rica and the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ambassador Guillermet-Fernandez is now the deputy delegate of the Costa Rican Government in at the United Nations in Geneva. Micol Savia (Italy) Italian lawyer, specialising in human rights and international law. Elected as representative to the United Nations in Geneva of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) in 2008, and now the vice-secretary of IADL. <Japan-based> Makoto Ito Born in 1958, Ito Makoto is the Director of Ito Juku, an institution he established for providing education for those seeking to take the bar examination and other legal qualifications. He lectures and writes widely throughout Japan and internationally, spreading the spirit and principles of the Japanese Constitution as a researcher and legal expert. Nahoko Takato Born in 1970 in Hokkaido, she dedicated herself to years of volunteer work from 2000 including at the Mother Theresa House in India, and at hospices for AIDS/HIV patients in Thailand and Cambodia. She moved to Fallujah in Iraq in 2003 to volunteer in hospitals, but was taken hostage by an armed group in 2004 by a group who demanded the withdrawal of the Japanese Self-Defense Force from Iraq. Co-initiator of the Network to Demand an Inquiry into the Iraq War. Ronni Alexander Professor at the Kobe University Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, specialising in international cooperation and peace studies. Ronni Alexander came to Japan after graduation from Yale University in 1977, receiving her MA at the International Christian University and PhD from Sophia University in Tokyo in 1989. She joined Kobe University in 1989 and has been at her current post since 1993. Her work focuses on 'life' and 'security' and the intersections of gender, sexuality, peace and violence. This peace research is linked to practice through the Popoki Peace Project, which engages in peace education and peace activism through bilingual books for children and other workshop materials, including work in communities affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.