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HOW CAN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY   EFFECTIVELY ENGAGE NORTH KOREA?

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Tsai Auditorium  Center for Government and International Studies  Harvard University, USA Saturday, 13th, September 2014!

2014 STUDENT CONFERENCE ON DPRK

Dear Conference Participants:

CONFERENCE ITINERARY

Thank you for your participation in the 2014 Student Conference on DPRK, the output of a year-long collaborative eﬀort between students across Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Medical School. The conference receives educational and logistical consulting from a global network of students interested in the DPRK, known as Engage Korea.

07:20 AM

Registration begins

08:00 AM

Opening Remarks by representatives of Harvard  

The conference theme - how can the international community eﬀectively engage the DPRK? - is not a new question but has seldom discussed in public forums. Often rendered as a state that is impossible to understand or the “hermit kingdom,” North Korea exists as a niche interest that only a few can meaningfully discuss. This conference aims to bridge the gap between those who are knowledgeable about North Korea and those wishing to know more. We oﬀer students the opportunity to listen to the experts with firsthand knowledge of the DPRK and a venue for interactive and meaningful discussion. We also proudly present junior scholars and practitioners whose insightful and innovative presentations will enlighten discussion group sessions in the afternoon. All these amazing speakers would not have gathered without your participation in this event! We hope you find the conference informative, inspiring and enjoyable. Please let us know if you have any questions or comments.

Medical School Students for Global Health and Harvard   Kennedy School North Korea Study Group

08:15 AM

Panel 1: Economic Engagement

09:45 AM

Coffee Break

10:15 AM

Panel 2: Humanitarian Engagement

11:45 AM

Lunch

12:45 PM

Panel 3: Education-based Engagement

02:15 PM

Coffee Break

02:45 PM

Special presentation from Engage Korea

03:00 PM

Panel 4: Health-based Engagement

04:30 PM

Discussion Groups Round 1

05:30 PM

Discussion Groups Round 2

06:30 PM

Closing remarks

! Very best regards,  Conference organizers

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09:45 AM Panel 1_Economic Engagement 

03:00 PM Panel 4_Health-based Engagement 

Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein (moderator), John Hopkins SAIS, United States  Friedrich Lohr, Former German Ambassador to DPRK, 2005-2007  Topic:   Bradley Babson, Chair of the DPRK Economic Forum at the US-Korea Institute,  Johns Hopkins SAIS  Topic: Economic engagement with North Korea: lessons from experience and   considerations going forward  Seung-Hee Nah, Founder and Managing Partner, Washington Partners for   Development and Finance  Topic: Calculating a return on economic engagement in the DPRK 

Elizabeth Park (moderator), Korean American Medical Student Association  Charlie Sands, Dean, Pyongyang University of Science and Technology School   of Public Health  Topic: Division of medical sciences, Pyongyang University of Science and Technology:   An introduction  Kee Park, Chair, Korean American Medical Association (KAMA) & World Korean   Medical Organization Global Outreach Program  Topic: KAMA North Korea doctor to doctor initiative  Lu-Yu Hwang, Professor, University of Texas HSC-Houston, School of Public Health  Topic: Public health initiatives: vaccine preventable cancers in DPRK

 

BREAKOUT DISCUSSION GROUPS (choose one presentation per session)  04:30 - 05:30PM Group 1 

10:15 AM Panel 2_Humanitarian Engagement 

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Sabine Burghart (moderator), Lecturer and PhD candidate, Department of East Asian   Studies, University of Vienna   Scott Snyder, Senior Fellow for Korea Studies and Director of the Program on   U.S.-Korea Policy, Council of Foreign Relations  Topic: Human security in North Korea and international response  Jerome Sauvage, Former UN Coordinator to DPRK 2010-2013  Topic: The UN operations in DPRK  Keith Luse, Executive Director, The National Committee on North Korea  Topic: Choices 

Adam Knight, Macquarie University, Australia  Topic: Critically engaging the proliferation of international justice norms:   contextualizing an acculturation-mechanism approach to socialisation  

 

Joowon Park, American University Washington DC, United States  Topic: Remittances as engagement? Vectors of power, resistance & social change  

 

Marie-Pier Baril, University of British Columbia, Canada  Topic: Divided upon unification: a study of the Korean unification survey  

 

Théo Clément, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon and Sciences Po Lyon, France  Topic: Is China holding a lukewarm attitude towards DPRK's Special Economic Zones? 

12:45 PM Panel 3_Education-based Engagement   

Katharine H.S. Moon (moderator), Senior fellow at the Brookings Center for East Asia   Policy Studies  Fredrick Carriere, PCI Senior Fellow, Korean Peninsula Affairs Center, Syracuse   University  Topic: Capacity building for civil society?  Desmond Lim, Associate at Choson Exchange  Topic: Women in business  Christine Chon, Professor, Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST)  Topic: PUST - Why it is there?

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05:30 - 06:30PM Group 2  Andrew Taffer, Tufts University, United States  Topic: China’s window on North Korea  

 

Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein, John Hopkins SAIS, United States  Topic: How dependent are North Koreans on the State?  

 

Brandon Gauthier, Fordham University, United States  Topic: North Koreans in the American imagination, 1950-1979  

 

Elizabeth Park, Boston University, School of Medicine, United States  Topic: A medical student experience in North Korea and call for solidarity 

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FRIEDRICH LOHR 

BRADLEY O. BABSON 

SCOTT A. SNYDER 

JEROME SAUVAGE 

Mr. Löhr spent thirty-seven years with the German diplomatic service. He served as the German Ambassador to North Korea from 2005 to 2007, after having been Deputy Chief of Mission in Beijing. He is now a professor at Suffolk and Northeastern Universities after a stint as visiting scholar at University of Rhode Island. His diplomatic postings include stints in Belgrade, Khartoum, Budapest, Prague, New York (UN), Algiers, Lagos, Brussels/Strasbourg, Bonn (Chancellor's office), Berlin. He studies law, French and Int. Relations at Heidelberg, Montpellier and Oxford where he held a Rhodes scholarship.

Mr. Babson is a consultant on Asian affairs with a present concentration on North Korea. He worked for the World Bank for 26 years before retiring in 2000. Most of his World Bank career was spent working on East Asia and Southeast Asia, where he led a regional office based in Bangkok and opened the resident office in Hanoi Vietnam in the early 1990’s. Since 2000 he has consulted for the World Bank and United Nations and various institutes, foundations and universities. He presently is Chair of the DPRK Economic Forum at the U.S.-Korea Institute, John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and serves on the Advisory Council of the Korea Economic Institute of America, and Steering Committee of the National Committee for North Korea.

Mr. Snyder is a senior fellow for Korea studies and director of the program on U.S.-Korea Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He focuses on U.S. policy toward Northeast Asia, South Korea's potential influence and international contributions as a middle power in East Asia and the peninsular, regional, and global implications of North Korean instability. Prior to joining CFR, he was a senior associate in the international relations program of The Asia Foundation, where he founded and directed the Center for U.S.Korea Policy and served as The Asia Foundation's representative in Korea. He has also worked at the U.S. Institute of Peace and The Asia Society. His most recent books are North Korea in Transition: Politics, Economy, and Society (co-editor) and China’s Rise and the Two Koreas.

Mr. Sauvage is Deputy Director of the UNDP Representation Office in Washington, DC. He was formerly the UN Resident Coordinator in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). As UN Coordinator in DPRK, Mr. Sauvage led the UN in providing emergency and humanitarian support to the population; represented the UN at bilateral and multilateral levels; negotiated with the Government on UN operations in the country and led fund-raising efforts in support of humanitarian activities. He opened the UNDP office there, negotiating its country programme, ensuring that all projects met UNDP's mandate as well as monitoring and evaluation requirements; he was also the designated official for security. He also served in Cambodia, India, Pakistan, Vietnam and Madagascar.

SEUNG-HEE NAH 

BENJAMIN KATZEFF SILBERSTEIN 

KEITH LUSE 

SABINE BURGHART (moderator) 

Ms. Nah worked for 23 years at the International Finance Corporation (“IFC”), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group. Her experiences include privatization, new investment, business development, and corporate restructuring and workout cases. Regarding Asia, her work covered China, Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Mongolia and others. Her projects were in the manufacturing, health care, education, agribusiness and other sectors. She initiated and co-authored her first book, “Establishing Private Healthcare Facilities in Developing Countries: a Practical Guide for Medical Entrepreneurs”, which was published by the World Bank Institute in 2007. Ms. Nah currently serves as chairperson of the Board of Directors of Korean American Sharing Movement, Inc. and as a board member of Choson Exchange.

(moderator)   Mr. Silberstein is a 2nd-year MA student in International Relations and International Economics at Johns Hopkins SAIS, with a concentration in Korea Studies. He regularly writes about Korean affairs for a number of publications on a freelance basis and is a guest editorial writer at Svenska Dagbladet. Prior to his graduate studies, he worked as an advisor to the Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation. He earned his BA in political science at Stockholm University and took intensive Korean language courses at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul while working as a freelance journalist. His main research interests revolve around the relationship between markets, state and public in North Korea.

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Mr. Luse is the Executive Director of The National Committee on North Korea. From 2003 until 2104, he was the Senior East Asia Policy Advisor for Chairman and later Ranking Member Senator Richard G. Lugar at the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Prior to his work at the Committee, Luse was Staff Director for Mr. Lugar at the Senate Agriculture Committee for 4 years, where the Senator also served as Chairman and later Ranking Member. Luse worked on matters related to North Korea and made five trips to the DPRK. He has participated in numerous Track 1.5 and Track 2 sessions about North Korea or with North Korean officials outside of their country. Luse has given lectures at universities and foreign ministries in Asian countries, including The Foreign Language Institute in Pyongyang.

Sabine Burghart, a political scientist, is PhD candidate and lecturer at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna. Between 2004 - 2007, she worked as program coordinator at the Korea office of the German Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Seoul. She was in charge of the foundation’s training programs and capacity building projects in the DPRK. In 2011/12, she temporarily returned to the non-profit sector to facilitate cooperation projects with the DPRK. Her PhD thesis analyses the institutional framework for capacity development in the DPRK. She has been contributing articles to the yearbook Korea: Politics, Economy and Society edited by Rudiger Frank, James E. Hoare, Patrick Köllner and Susan Pares (Leiden: Brill)

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FREDERICK CARRIERE 

DESMOND LIM 

Mr. Carriere is a Pacific Century Institute Senior Fellow, Korean Peninsula Affairs Center at Syracuse University. From 1994-2009, he served as the executive vice president of The Korea Society in New York City. Previously, he lived in the ROK for a period of over twenty years. While serving as the executive director of the Korea Fulbright Commission (1984-1993), Carriere was responsible for the Koreabased programs of the East West Center, the Humphrey Fellowship Program and the Educational Testing Service. He also was president of the Royal Asiatic Society–Korea Branch for two years (1989-91) and a councilor for over a decade. Carriere has been involved in promoting engagement with the DPRK in various capacities since 1994. He currently is responsible for the secretariat of the U.S.-D.P.R.K. Scientific Engagement Consortium.

Desmond started working on Korean issues in 2008, and has been running educational programs at Choson Exchange since 2010 with a belief in innovative approaches to development in North Korea. Desmond previously worked for Merrill Lynch and UBS, started up a Thai food restaurant, and represented the Singapore Team in basketball. He is an Infantry Lieutenant in the Singapore Armed Forces, a research fellow at MIT, and graduate tutor at Harvard College. Desmond graduated in 4 years with two Bachelors (Magna Cum Laude) from Singapore Management University as a Lee Kong Chian Scholar, in finance, business, and accountancy. He is currently a graduate student at Harvard University and MIT. Desmond has lived in Singapore, China, Korea, U.K, and the U.S, and speaks Mandarin and Korean.

CHRISTINE CHON 

KATHARINE H.S. MOON (moderator) 

Previous to her work on Korea, Ms. Chon worked in mortgage banking area involving business development, secondary marketing, coordination with various institutions and government agencies for over 20 years. In 2003, she joined her husband and taught English and Business at the Yanbian University of Science & Technology in Yanbian, China. In 2010, she and her husband joined the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, and she has served as a faculty member of International Finance & Management Department. In the U.S. she was involved in many community activities for the benefit of youth groups who were in the bi-lingual culture by bringing many well-known speakers with Asian American background from all over the States.

Ms. Moon is the inaugural holder of the SK-Korea Foundation Chair in Korea Studies and senior fellow at the Brookings Center for East Asia Policy Studies. She also is a professor of Political Science at Wellesley College and holds the Edith Stix Wasserman Chair of Asian Studies. Moon’s research includes the U.S.-Korea alliance, politics of East Asia, inter-Korean relations, socio-political changes in both Koreas, as well as democratization, women and gender politics, and comparative social movements in East Asia.

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CHARLIE SANDS 

KEE PARK 

During this past academic year Mr. Sands served as a professor in the School of Public Health, Division of Medical Sciences, Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), Pyongyang, DPRK. He taught classes in pharmacology and performed needs assessments (health status of the DPRK) in support of the development of a curriculum for the School of Public Health. Most of his adult life Dr. Sands has spent in Asia interspersed by periods of being a faculty member and teaching at the McWhorter School of Pharmacy, Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. The majority of the time in Asia was spent at the Wallace Memorial Baptist Hospital in Pusan, Korea, as Director of various clinical programs, and he also spent a total of five years teaching and doing research at the Yanbian University Medical College in Yanji, China.

Mr. Park is the current Chair of the Global Outreach Committee of the Korean American Medical Association as well as the World Korean Medical Organization. He is the director of the KAMA North Korea Doctor to Doctor Initiative and advisor to the Korean American Medical Student Association North Korea Exchange Program. Since 2007, Dr. Park has developed a close relationship with the North Korean neurosurgeons and facilitated relationships between North Korean doctors with their counterparts around the world including US, UK, Norway, Pakistan, Sweden and Australia. Dr. Park and his family are presently residing in Phnom Penh, Cambodia where he is training Cambodian neurosurgery residents at the Preah Kossamak Hospital. Prior to Cambodia, he served as the Director of Spine Surgery at the Myungsung Christian Medical Center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

LU YU HWANG 

ELIZABETH PARK (moderator) 

Ms. Hwang, professor of Epidemiology and the Center for Infectious Diseases at University of Texas-HSC-Houston, School of Public Health, is an internationally known expert on infectious disease epidemiology and the prevention of hepatitis/HIV/STDs, TB and vaccine preventable cancers. Dr. Hwang has been the director of the CITAR (Center for International Training and Research) at UTSPH and has actively participated in curriculum development and delivery of in-country workshops and international research collaborations especially in China, Vietnam. 

Ms. Park is a 4th year medical student at Boston University School of Medicine. She worked in a basic science laboratory in Seoul, South Korea from 2012 to 2013 and telemedicine/mHealth projects in Botswana with the Botswana-UPenn Partnership from 2013 to 2014. Her interests include internal medicine, open access to information, conflict of interest education in medicine, patient advocacy, health systems improvement,. She joined the KAMA (Korean American Medical Association) delegation of Korean-American physicians performing medical service in Pyongyang, North Korea for the first time in May 2014. She will be returning in September to lead and organize the first PICoMS (Pyongyang International Conference of Medical Students).

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ADAM KNIGHT 

JOOWON PARK 

ANDREW TAFFER 

BENJAMIN KATZEFF SILBERSTEIN 

Mr. Taffer is a PhD candidate at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. His general academic interests include international relations theory, security studies, and the Asia-Pacific region. His research concerns the evolution of the maritime disputes in the South and East China seas. Andrew formerly worked as an analyst with the Long Term Strategy Group focusing on Chinese foreign relations and East Asian military and security affairs. He also served as a research fellow with the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission where he contributed to the commission’s 2012 Annual Report to Congress. He holds an MALD from the Fletcher School and a BA from the University of Chicago.

Mr. Silberstein is a 2nd-year MA student in International Relations and International Economics at Johns Hopkins SAIS, with a concentration in Korea Studies. He regularly writes about Korean affairs for a number of publications on a freelance basis and is a guest editorial writer at Sweden's 2nd largest daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. Prior to his graduate studies, he worked as an advisor to the Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation. He earned his BA in political science at Stockholm University and took intensive Korean language courses at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul while working as a freelance journalist. His main research interests revolve around the relationship between markets, state and public in North Korea.

THÉO CLÉMENT  

BRANDON GAUTHIER  

ELIZABETH PARK 

Mr. Clément recently graduated from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon and Sciences Po Lyon and will begin his Ph.D research at the beginning of Fall 2014. His M.A and Ph.D dissertations are focused on China's influence in the North Korean "reform and opening" process (particularly on Special Economic Zones), from a geopolitical perspective. Having spent several semesters in the People's Republic of China (Beijing University), he is mostly working with Chinese language sources and doing field research in the China-Korea borderlands or in North Korean SEZs.

Mr. Gauthier graduated from Elon University in 2006 with a B.A. in political science and completed his M.A. in history at Fordham University in 2010. He is presently a PhD candidate in American history at Fordham University. Specializing in U.S. foreign relations, his dissertation examines the history of U.S.-DPRK relations from 1948 to 1996. Gauthier’s research specifically historicizes competing cultural and political visions of North Korea in American society and explains the process through which integrated links between culture, identity, and foreign policy shaped U.S.-DPRK diplomatic history. He has previously written for the theAtlantic.com, Yonsei Journal of International Studies, The Oral History Review, and NKnews.org.

Mr. Knight is an Australian registered migration agent and higher degree researcher based in Sydney Australia. Adam completed his B.A in philosophy at University College London in 2004 and M.A in international politics at the University of Melbourne in 2009. He qualified in Australian immigration law and practice in 2013 through the Australian National University. Adam’s interest in Korea has grown out of his postgraduate legal and education sector work, including an academic year spent working as an English Lecturer in South Korea. He enrolled in Macquarie University's Master of Research course in February 2014 which will culminate with mini thesis submission at the beginning of October.

Mr. Park is a PhD Candidate and Lecturer at the American University in Washington, DC. His research on violence, citizenship, and belonging in North Korean resettlement is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Explorers Club Washington Group. His research interests also include the moral economies of suffering, politics of humanitarianism, and transnational post-migration networks. Joowon spent his childhood in Kenya, which shaped his interests in forced migration and refugee studies. He holds a MAPA from American University and a BA from DePauw University.

MARIE-PIER BARIL   Ms. Baril is a recent graduate student from the Master of Arts Asia Pacific Policy Studies (MAAPPS) program at the University of British-Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. In 2010-2011, she did a student exchange at Yonsei University in South Korea. Enjoying her stay in Korea, she decided to go back for her practicum in 2014, where she interned for four months at the Seoul National University Institute for Peace and Unification Studies. Marie-Pier was a student fellow at the Institute of Asian Research in 2013 – 2014, and she presented twice at the UBCUW joint-conference. She has a traditional security studies background, but she is becoming more and more interested in non-traditional security issues, such as resources management (especially the rare earths minerals extraction), migration and environmental degradation in Northeast Asia.

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Ms. Park is a 4th year medical student at Boston University School of Medicine. She worked in a basic science laboratory in Seoul, South Korea from 2012 to 2013 and telemedicine/mHealth projects in Botswana with the Botswana-UPenn Partnership from 2013 to 2014. Her interests include internal medicine, open access to information, conflict of interest education in medicine, patient advocacy, health systems improvement,. She joined the KAMA (Korean American Medical Association) delegation of Korean-American physicians performing medical service in Pyongyang, North Korea for the first time in May 2014. She will be returning in September to lead and organize the first PICoMS (Pyongyang International Conference of Medical Students).

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CONFERENCE ACADEMIC ADVISORS

ENGAGE KOREA SUPPORTERS

KEUN-WOOK PAIK  

STINA JINSUN BAE, Discussion Group 

SARAH A. SON, Panel 3  

Stina is a PhD candidate at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Prior to her PhD, she worked as an independent researcher and wrote a report on Sweden’s engagement with the DPRK. She completed her Master in Asian Studies at Lund University, Sweden. Between 2008 - 2010 she worked for a South Korean NGO and conducted educational workshops on rights-based approach (RBA) for development NGOs.

Sarah is a recent PhD graduate from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London where she researched national identity and policy relating to unification and North Korean defector resettlement in South Korea. She is continuing her research agenda on identity, security and inter-Korean relations as a research fellow at Korea University's Asiatic Research Institute in Seoul. Prior to her PhD, she worked in advocacy and politics in Westminster in the UK and was co-director of a consulting business linking the UK and South Korea.

Senior research fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies & associate fellow in the energy, environment, and resource programme, Chatham House, UK.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS YE JIN KANG, Harvard Students for Global Health 

JIEUN BAEK, Harvard North Korea Study Group representative  

Ye jin is currently enrolled at Harvard Medical School. She read for a MSc in Medical Anthropology and MPP at the University of Oxford on the Rhodes Scholarship. She is an aspiring physician policymaker, and her aim is to help improve North Korea’s healthcare system. Ye jin taught a course at Rice called 'Demystifying DPRK.’ She served as Program Director in the Office of Global Research and Development at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology.

Jieun is a Master in Public Policy 2014 candidate at Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government, where she is concentrating in International and Global Affairs. In August 2013, she led a trip for 24 students to North Korea in August 2013. Before graduate school, she worked at Google Headquarters in sales, information access projects, and research on North Korea. Jieun received her Bachelor’s degree at Harvard University, where she founded a student organization to study North Korea. Jieun hopes to work on US policy in North Korea and the greater East Asian region.

SAM YI, Harvard North Korea Study Group representative  Sam is a Master in Public Policy 2015 candidate at Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he acts as the new chair of the HKS North Korea Study Group. Prior to Harvard, Sam supported a non-profit organization in China. Sam earned his Bachelor’s degree in International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He hopes to work on development issues in East Asia.

GREGORY A. PAVONE, Harvard North Korea Study Group representative  Gregory A. Pavone is a Master in Public Policy 2014 candidate at Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is writing his thesis on business transactions between North Korean elites and Chinese private enterprises. Before coming to Harvard, he studied Economics and Chinese at the U.S. Naval Academy. From 2008 to 2010, Greg served as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Seoul and Gangneung, South Korea and engaged with several South Koreans who had family in North Korea. Greg hopes to work in North Korea on economic development issues.

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ROBERT WINSTANLEY-CHESTERS, Discussion Group  Robert is a political Geographer from Leeds, UK. He is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Beyond the Korean War Project (Cambridge University/Academy of Korean Studies) and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Leeds’ School of Geography. He is also Director of Research and environmental analyst for “SINO:NK - China, North Korea Borderlands, Relations, History”. Robert obtained his doctorate from the University of Leeds’ School of Geography with a dissertation titled: “Ideology and the Production of Landscape in the DPRK.”

MATTHEW BATES, Panel 1  Matthew writes on Sino-North Korean economic relations for the website Sino-NK, and is a chartered certified accountant and chartered secretary at Aminex PLC, an oil and gas exploration company in UK. He holds an MA Korean Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, where he wrote his masters thesis on the strategy underlying North Korea’s 2002 Economic Management Measures.

SABINE BURGHART, Panel 2  Sabine Burghart, a political scientist, is PhD candidate and lecturer at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna. Between 2004 - 2007, she worked as program coordinator at the Korea office of the German Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Seoul. See her full bio on SPEAKERS_page 7.

SHERRI L. TER MOLEN, Public Relations  Sherri is a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication at Wayne State University in Detroit where she studies the complicated mediated relationships between the divided Koreas and the United States. She is also an adjunct instructor at DePaul University in Chicago and the outreach coordinator for Sino-NK. Her work has appeared in Media Asia, Korea 2013: Politics, Economy and Society, and the forthcoming book, The Global Impact of South Korean Popular Culture: Hallyu Unbound. In addition, she has twenty years of professional experience in advertising, broadcasting, journalism, marketing, and social media.

MAXIMILIAN HOELL, Panel Relations Maximilian is a doctoral student at University College London. Before completing his MSc in International Relations at the London School of Economics, he earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Oxford. He founded and chaired the Oxford German Forums 2011-2013, presided over the Oxford German Society, and acts as Global Zero Student Ambassador. He has interned with the German Federal Foreign Office, the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the European Commission, the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation and the Comprehensive Nuclear-TestBan Treaty Organization.

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SPECIAL PRESENTATION: ENGAGE KOREA

SPONSORS

Engage Korea is a global student network and humanitarian educational initiative on DPRK. We aim to provide a platform for constructive discussions on better modes of engagement with DPRK and to link interested young people with information about relevant research and service opportunities. Starting with its flagship conference in May, 2013 at Oxford University, UK, Engage Korea has been helping student communities across borders to organise DPRK-related events locally.

This conference was made possible due to the generous support of our Funding Sponsors: 

Website is in the making (and getting better!). Visit www.engagekorea.org or contact Ye jin Kang for any question.

“I joined Engage Korea in 2012, helping Ye jin to put together the first conference… My reason for joining was simple: I believe that increased dialogue on the Korean peninsula is the only viable solution for a stable peace.” Maximilian Hoell (PhD study in International Relations   at University College London)

“I led a discussion session and moderating the equivalent panel at last year's conference in Oxford… Having previously been involved with two business ventures with the DPRK which were a fortuitous synergy of my interests in North Korea, finance and energy, I am very comfortable with the humanitarian focus of Engage Korea.” Matthew Bates (accountant and secretary at Aminex PLC)

“As a developmental Geographer I recognise that the greatest achievements within my own field of interest and enquiry are made through international interaction, cooperation and engagement… If we as, objective, academic analysts, interested parties or committed observers are to gain or achieve anything of value with our interactions north of the parallel therefore we will have to engage the North Korea of reality, not of our imagination.” Robert Winstanley-Chesters (Post-doc fellow, Beyond Korean War Project,  

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We are deeply grateful to all the speakers, discussants and conference attendants for their interest and participation. We also want to add our special thanks to following individuals : - All our amazing volunteers: Sabine Burghart, Nathan Nakatsuka, Iny Jhun, Cindy Kang, Sherri Ter Molen, Stephanie Choi, Jen Roh, Carol Yu, Andrew Ikhyun Kim, Kyu Cho, Bennet Cho, Ye jin Kang, Tracey Lam, Elizabeth Park - Gianluca Spezza for making the conference website - Sabine van Ameijden for her PR/communication support and photos on the conference website main page - Mathew Abraham for editing the Engage Korea video - The credit of the conference booklet cover goes top (stephan) @ Flickr. No change was made to his photo.

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