Humanitarian Responses to Crisis International Conference Hosted by Kennesaw State University March 21, 2014

1000 Chastain Road, MD 9119 | Kennesaw, GA 30144 | 678.797.2368 | www.kennesaw.edu/globalinstitute/ Keynote Presentations Co-Sponsors & Community Partners Building Disaster Resilient Societies: JICA’s been to continuously extend cooperation in the field of DRR rooted Experience around the World in the Japanese experience with the aim to build capacities of From Crisis Comes Hope developing countries to cope with disasters as a means to achieve sustainable development. Mr. Takeya will introduce several case ■■The Japan Foundation Speaker: Kimio Takeya, Visiting Senior Advisor studies and the solutions implemented. working on Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies for Sometimes it takes the worst of nature to bring out the best in ■■The Coca-Cola Company the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) humanity. As a country that has a long history of being affected by various ■■The Consulate General disasters, Japan has incorporated Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) International Responses to Crisis is a day-long conference considerations into its development plans and investments in order of Japan to reduce the impact of disasters. The approach of Japan has been organized by Kennesaw State University’s Institute for Global to learn lessons be examining the impact of disasters and installing Initiatives. The event is part of the university’s ‘Year of Japan’ more resilient systems to mitigate potential future damage. ■■Japan America Society celebration, and highlights the role of Japan in humanitarian of Georgia (JASG) Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is the development efforts around the world, including the devastating March 2011 agency of the Government of Japan which carries out cooperation earthquake and tsumani, which resulted in the loss of more than activities around the world. Thus, naturally JICA’s approach has ■■The Japan External 15,000 lives and caused more than $300 billion in property The Open-Sogo-Fujo Network: The Role of Civil Living in an age of uncertainties - politically, economically and damage. Trade Organition (JETRO) Society in Humanitarian Action socially with ever-increasing natural threats - AMDA will continue to seek collaborative ways to realize and sustain peace in the world. Speaker: Tae Namba, Board Member and Director In the aftermath of a crisis, businesses and humanitarian ■■The Japanese Chamber Ms.Namba will introduce the philosophy and concepts of open-Sogo- of Commerce of Georgia of International Relations with the Association of Fujo with specific examples of AMDA’s experiences worldwide. She organizations around the world turn their attentions to helping Medical Doctors of Asia (AMDA). will expand on the social milieu of the past and present Japan which the people in affected areas start to rebuild. (JCCG) Sogo-Fujo is a traditional Japanese term meaning mutual assistance within a given community. AMDA has gone beyond the confinement As an attendee of International Responses to Crisis, you will ■■UNITAR Green Legacy of traditional affinity groups, reaching out to people, far and near, whoever is in need of assistance. AMDA has opened up the spirit of hear directly from organizations involved in global relief efforts, Hiroshima Sogo-Fujo across and beyond communities. and will learn what is being done to prepare for future disasters. Since its inception in 1984 and steadily building on its past experience, ■■Soka University AMDA pursues a comprehensive and inclusive approach to its activities focusing on peaceful sustainable development. AMDA’s “Global Partnership for Sustainable Peace” philosophy aims to realize peaceful coexistence of diversity in which ordinary people can sustain a decent living and realize their hopes for tomorrow. Under the open-Sogo-Fujo, AMDA will fortify its present network and incorporate new partners from all possible fields for collaboration and joint-activities in emergency relief and peace-building efforts. 11:00-11:15 am 1:30-2:00pm Mr. Asai, Chief, Youth Peace Lobby Zuckerman Museum Committee of Soka Gakkai

Break Tree Planting 3:45-4:00pm Dedication Ceremony Lobby 11:15-12:15 pm Conference Agenda Social Sciences 1021 Hiroshima Bombing Survivor Trees Break provided by UNITAR Green Legacy Panel Discussion Hiroshima Project with support from 4:00-5:15 pm STUDENT POSTERS AND VOLUNTEERS: “Bringing Ishinomaki City Back Better,” the KSU Museum of History and Social Sciences 1021 Exhibit prepared by KSU alumna Akiko Nakamizo and undergraduate & graduate “The Fukushima Crisis and Japanese Holocaust Education students from the Departments of Conflict Management, Communication, and Social Work. Energy Policy: Critical Juncture or Special Session Business as Usual?” 2:00-2:45 pm 8:15-9:00 am 9:00-9:30 am 10:15-11:00 am Social Sciences 1021 “Participatory Crisis Archiving: Social Sciences Atrium Social Sciences 1021 Social Sciences 1021 Brian Woodall, Associate Professor, The Digital Archive of Japan’s 2011 Sam Nunn School of International Afternoon Keynote Address Disasters” Conference Registration Welcoming Remarks Special Session Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology “The Open-Sogo-Fujo Network: The Nick Kapur, Project Manager, Digital 8:45-9:00 am Daniel S. Papp, KSU President “Providing Clean Drinking Water Role of Civil Society in Humanitarian Archive of Japan’s 2011 Disasters, Social Sciences Atrium and the Honorable Kazuo Sunaga, in Emergency Disaster Relief” Chuck Casto, U.S. Nuclear Action” Reischauer Institute of Japanese Consul General of Japan in Atlanta Regulatory Commission Studies, Harvard University. Butoh-Inspired Performance & Mr. Bruce Karas, Vice President, Ms. Tae Namba, Director of Installation Exhibit 9:30-10:15 am Environment and Sustainability, Kenji Tateiwa, Manager, Nuclear International Relations, Association “The Great Tokyo Earthquake of Social Sciences 1021 The Coca-Cola Company Power Programs, Tokyo Electric of Medical Doctors of Asia (AMDA) 1923 and Mediation,” Hideaki Irie, Produced by Mara Mandradjieff, Power, Company, Inc. (TEPCO) Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, KSU Instructor of Dance and Opening Keynote Address “UPS Humanitarian Relief 2:45-3:45 pm Kyushu University Sandra Bird, Professor of Art Program – Logistics in Time of Makoto Mitsui, Reporter, Yomiuri Social Sciences 1021 Education and their students. “Building Disaster Resilient Crisis,” Shimbun and Visiting Fulbright “Crisis Communication,” Societies: JICA’s Experience Scholar, UC Berkeley Special Session Around the World” Joe Ruiz, The UPS Foundation, Barbara Gainey, Professor of Director, UPS Humanitarian Relief 12:15-1:30 pm “Humanitarian Responses to the Communication, KSU Mr. Kimio Takeya, Senior Advisor, Program The Commons Tohoku Crisis” Japan International Cooperation 5:30-7:00 pm Agency (JICA) Lunch Mr. Mikio Yamane, Soka Gakkai Social Sciences Atrium Youth Division Leader, Tohoku Area Dinner Reception Mr.Taro Hashimoto, Soka Gakkai Youth Division Leader. KSU’s ‘Year of Japan’

Humanitarian Responses to Crisis is the latest KSU also offers several opportunities for students event in Kennesaw State University’s ‘Year of to study abroad in Japan, including exchange O Flock of Heavenly Cranes Japan.’ Each academic year the program focuses a programs with Soka University in Tokyo and series of lectures, performances, exhibits and films Chukyo University in Nagoya, International The conference opens with a butoh-inspired art installation by Dance Visual Artists and Artworks faculty member Mara Mandradjieff and School of the Arts faculty member on a specific country or world region. Student Exchange Programs, an arts, language, Sandra Bird. Chaotic Clash of Trash by April Alexander and Mary Cowan and cultural study abroad program, and travel The Wave by Galina Buromskikh and Tara Hemelgarn This piece explores the recovery process of navigating through both The events are linked to credit-earning special opportunities as part of the university’s LINK the emotional and physical realities of destruction. It also investigates Beauty, Lost in Forever by Ally Carswell and Jocelyn Rease topics courses, and are all free and open to the Leadership Program. attached identity and memory to objects, specifically post-disaster trash. The Unfinished Project by Caitlin Chase and Holly Martin public. The ‘Year Of’ program provides valuable Tree of Death by Quan Chen Performing Artists networking opportunities between KSU and the Installation photos courtesy of nationalgeographic.com and international communities of North Georgia. Mara Mandradjieff theguardian.com Christen Weimer Sounds courtesty of 120 Nature Sounds and Rivers & Brooks Emmie Graham About Kennesaw State University UNITAR Green Legacy Hiroshima Project Kennesaw State University (KSU) is the third- administration, education and professional writing. A highlight of the conference is the tree planting dedication ceremony largest university in the State of Georgia with KSU has made global engagement a pillar of its at Zuckerman Museum, where Kennesaw State University will become more than 25,000 undergraduate and graduate institutional mission and strategic plan and was home to a piece of living history. students representing 135 countries. Our campus recently awarded the Senator Paul Simon award The UNITAR Green Legacy Hiroshima Project is presenting KSU with is located in metropolitan Atlanta in one of the for comprehensive internationalization as a result. several trees, which are descendants of a Ginkgo Biloba tree located in Hiroshima‘s historic Shukkeien Garden, 1,500 meters from the atomic safest and most beautiful areas of the United States. bomb hypocenter. The parent tree was among a small cluster of trees that KSU offers 80 bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate In August of 2015, Kennesaw State University will survived the August 6, 1945, bombing. These trees will be planted under the auspices of the KSU Institute for degrees in education, health, business, humanities, consolidate with the nearby Southern Polytechnic Global Initiatives and the Museum of History and Holocaust Education. arts, science and math. The university’s graduate State University and add more than 6,000 students and 30 degree programs in Science, Technology & Green Legacy Hiroshima has been established to safeguard and spread degree programs include nursing, business, worldwide the seeds and saplings of Hiroshima’s Atomic Bomb survivor information systems, conflict management, public Engineering. trees - and their message of caution and of hope for a nuclear-free world. Parent Tree in Shukkeien Garden, Hiroshima

Tree of Death by Quan Chen Mitsui Makoto is a Staff Writer, Science News including the UPS Relief Link Program, to enhance held full-time faculty positions at the University Department, at the Tokyo Head office of The the supply chain capabilities of humanitarian relief of California at Irvine and Harvard University, Yomiuri Shimbun, the Japanese daily newspaper partners. He also manages UPS’s engagement as well as visiting appointments at the University credited with having a circulation of about 10 in the Logistics Emergency Team (LET) loaned of Tokyo. His research focuses on issues of million, one of the largest in the world. He has executive program for the U.N. World Food comparative politics, political economy, and reported news on life sciences, climate change, Programme and Global Logistics Cluster, to international relations with an emphasis on Japan space development and science policy, not only prepare and deploy logistics experts immediately and East Asia. Dr. Woodall is the author of About the Presenters the technical aspects of these topics but also on following natural disasters. Since 2007 UPS Growing Democracy in Japan: The Parliamentary the ethical and social issues related to them. After has deployed responders in Indonesia (2007), Cabinet System Since 1868 (in press), Japan Under Chuck Casto joined the Nuclear Regulatory crisis management (particularly in educational Management at Kennesaw State University from March 11th, 2011, he covered the disaster at the Myanmar (2008), Haiti (2008), Philippines (2009), Construction: Corruption, Politics, and Public Commission in 1985 as an Operator Licensing settings), public relations, distance education, Aug. 2013 to Aug. 2014. Fukushima nuclear power plant, focusing on the Padang (2009), Haiti (2010) Pakistan (2010), Works (University of California Press), and Japan’s Examiner in Region II. From 1997 to 2008, he public engagement through new media, and safety aspects and the health effects of radiation. Japan, Horn of Africa, and Nigeria (2011) Sahel Changing World Role (Asia Society), and co-editor held a number of progressively more responsible leadership. Dr. Gainey was the founding faculty He earned his doctorate (awarded with distinction) He is presently visiting scholar at the Graduate Region of Africa (2012) and the Philippines (2013). of and contributor to Elections in Japan, Korea, leadership positions in Region II, including Deputy advisor for KSU’s PRSSA (Public Relations from University of Tokyo Graduate School of Law School of Journalism in UC Berkeley as a Fulbright Joe also manages the UPS Logistics Action Team and Taiwan Under the Single Non-Transferable Director, Division of Reactor Projects; Director, Student Society of America) chapter, and, in 2007, and Politics in 2011 and has published a book Scholar. He graduated from Kyoto University, in (LAT) initiative that offers logistics support to Vote (University Michigan Press). In addition, he Division of Reactor Safety; and Director, Division she was awarded The George Beggs Advisor of the titled Modern Mediation - a comparative study Molecular Biology. American Red Cross disaster services coordinators has authored numerous articles, served as Chair of Reactor Projects. In 2008, he was appointed Year award. Dr. Gainey has more than 20 years of between Japan and U.S. (written in Japanese) from in high risk communities including: Florida, of the Southern Japan Seminar, and serves on as Deputy Regional Administrator, Region IV. professional communication experience. University of Tokyo Press in 2013. Nick Kapur is a historian of modern and Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, the editorial boards of several academic journals. In 2010, he was appointed Deputy Regional contemporary Japan, and is presently a California, Tennessee, Kentucky, New Jersey, He is also on the Board of Corporate Advisors to Administrator for Construction, Region II. In Taro Hashimoto serves as Youth Division Leader He is a member of the Training Committee at the postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, where New York and Colorado. Since 2011, the LAT has the Who’s Who in Asian American Communities March 2011, Mr. Casto was the lead NRC executive for Soka Gakkai and Soka Gakkai International Japan Association of Arbitrators and serves on he manages various digital archiving initiatives provided logistics support for Hurricane Isaac, Foundation. He has been interviewed on CNN, providing support to the Japanese government and (SGI). Soka Gakkai is a lay Buddhist movement the board of the Japan Association of the Law of for the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Hurricane Irene, Hurricane Sandy, and Colorado Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and other media outlets. U.S. Ambassador following the earthquake and encouraging “peace, culture, and education” Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution. and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, flooding. Joe also oversees UPS’s in-kind support, His current research projects examine issues tsunami that struck Japan affecting several reactors around the world. Taro currently leads the newly- He also serves as a member of the Planning and including Harvard’s Digital Archive of Japan’s which included more than 250 shipments across 46 related to Japanese and East Asian energy and at the Fukushima Daiichi site. In 2012, Mr. Casto formed “SOKA Global Action” youth campaign, Research Committee of Japan ADR Association. 2011 Disasters. Dr. Kapur’s research interests countries in 2013. environmental policies. Dr. Woodall has received was appointed as Regional Administrator, Region which promotes nuclear disarmament, fosters He is a member of the Association for Conflict include contemporary history, environmental research support from the U.S.-Japan Friendship III. Prior to joining the NRC, Mr. Casto worked cultural exchanges throughout Asia, and provides Resolution and Japanese Association of Sociology history, cultures of imperialism, the history of Kenji Tateiwa is Manager of Nuclear Power Commission, the Abe Fellowship Program of the in the nuclear industry as an operator and as an reconstruction efforts for victims of the March of Law. He previously worked as a researcher at the education, literature and film, and comparative Programs at Tokyo Electric Power Company, Inc. Social Science Research Council, the University of NRC certified Senior Reactor Operator Instructor. 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Following the Mitsubishi Research Institute, which is a private cultural history. His current book manuscript, (TEPCO), where he leads collaborative efforts California Pacific Rim Research Program, and the He received a Bachelor’s degree from the State earthquake and tsunami, Taro led a Soka Gakkai think tank engaged in government sponsored The 1960 US-Japan Security Treaty Crisis and with US nuclear-related institutions to enhance Japan Foundation. His teaching includes graduate University of New York, a Master’s degree in relief crew to Sendai City in Miyagi Prefecture, research projects on dispute resolution. the Origins of Contemporary Japan, explores the the safety of nuclear facilities based on lessons and undergraduate courses in comparative politics, Public Administration from the University of and stayed onsite for more than 30 days. He is also impact of the massive 1960 protests in Japan on learned from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear East Asia, Japanese politics and political economy, Georgia, and is a doctoral student studying Crisis the Director of the Youth Division Administrative Mr. Bruce Karas is the Vice President of US-Japan relations, Japanese society and culture, accident and to promote safe decommissioning of and U.S.-Japan. Leadership in the Coles College of Business at Office’s Organizational Affairs Department. Taro Environment and Sustainability for Coca- and the Cold War international system. In addition, the site. Previously at TEPCO, Mr. Tateiwa worked Kennesaw State University. attended the University of Tokyo, where he earned Cola Refreshments. In this role, he leads the he has forthcoming articles on Chinese and in the Nuclear Safety Group of the Nuclear Power Mikio Yamane is the Youth Division Leader for a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1997. environmental sustainability strategy development Japanese environmental policy since 1970, and Engineering Group, and as a Project Manager in Soka Gakkai’s branch in Japan’s Tohoku Region. Barbara S. Gainey (Ph.D., University of South and implementation for Coca-Cola in North US-Japan relations during the John F. Kennedy the Nuclear Business Development Group in the He also currently serves as the Planning Division Carolina) is Interim Chair and Associate Professor Hideaki Irie is an associate professor of the America. He has more than 20 years of experience administration. His next major research project International Affairs Department. He has also Director for the Tohoku Region Organizational in the Department of Communication at Kennesaw Graduate School of the Faculty of Law at Kyushu as an environmental, health and safety professional will examine discourses on suicide and self- worked in the Engineering Group of the Fukushima Affairs Department and the Project Manager for State University, Georgia, USA. Her teaching University and researcher at the Center for Conflict and has practiced in a wide range of industrial sacrifice in Japan and wider East Asia from the late Daini Nuclear Power Plant. Mr. Tateiwa holds the the Tohoku Region Disaster Recovery Project. areas are in public relations, crisis communication, Management Studies at Kyushu University. He operations in the U.S., Canada and China. He is 19th century to the present. Japanese Government’s certifications as a Class-I Miko has held several previous positions within the and graphic design, and she is a member of teaches conflict management to undergraduate, a Certified Industrial Hygienist in Comprehensive Radiation Specialist and Chief Nuclear Engineer. Soka Gakkai movement, including Youth Division the KSU Honors College faculty. Dr. Gainey’s graduate, and law school students. He is currently Practice, a Certified Safety Professional and is a Joe Ruiz is Director of the UPS Foundation’s He also holds both a Bachelor of Engineering and and Young Men’s Division Leaders for the Miyagi research interests include crisis communication/ serving as a visiting fellow at the Center for Conflict Registered Occupational Hygienist in Canada. Humanitarian Relief Program, coordinating a Master of Engineering from Kyoto University, as Prefecture branch, Student Division Leader for UPS’s $7.5 million annual investment in program well as a Master of Business Administration from the Tohoku Region branch, Project Manager for support, logistical expertise, skilled volunteers, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. the Miyagi Prefecture Disaster Recover Project, capacity building efforts to enhance community and Administrative Department Director for the resilience and strengthen preparedness, response, Brian Woodall is Associate Professor in Georgia Miyagi Prefecture Emergency Communications and recovery capabilities of UPS partner agencies. Tech’s Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. Center. He earned a Bachelor of Law degree from In this role, he oversees partner relationships, He received his PhD in Political Science from the Waseda University School of Law in March program development and operational execution the University of California at Berkeley, and has 1998. Special Thanks The conference organizers want to say thank you to all of the presenters, sponsors, community partners, KSU students, faculty, and staff who came together to make this event a success.

A very special thank you goes out to the Japan Foundation for their generous support of this conference and of the ‘Year of Japan.’

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