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Program Outline
Timings listed for Tokyo.
15:00 – Introductory remarks
15:05 – Opening remarks – Akashi Yasushi, Former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
15:10 – Keynote presentation – The Summit of the Future by Richard Ponzio, Member of ACUNS Board of Directors and Director of the Global Governance, Justice & Security Program at Stimson Center
15:40 – Discussion among the participants – Moderated by, Hasegawa Sukehiro, Director of the Kyoto Peacebuilding Center and ACUNS Tokyo Liaison Office, and President of the Global Peacebuilding Association of Japan
17:00 – End
The current global order is under large scale transformation: existential challenges emerging for the entire humankind, competing global strategies between great powers, fragilities of the multilateral system and powerful disturbing triggers. A United Nations (UN) Summit for the Future to adopt a Pact for the Future with commitments about policy goals and solutions to deliver them, is to be convened by the UN Secretary General to take place in September 2024.
A preparatory process was launched counting on a High-Level Board of personalities from all continents and of a plethora of contributions coming from Member States, regional organizations, civil society, and academia. In addition, think thanks around the world, such as the Washington D.C. based Stimson Center specializing in global governance, are preparing ground-breaking research for reforming the multilateral system to support the process leading to the UN Summit of the Future. The Stimson Center’s reports, Road to 2023: Our Common Agenda and the Pact for the Future and Rethinking Global Cooperation: Three New Frameworks for Collective Action in an Age of Uncertainty, show how a close coupling of justice and security imperatives can best drive the work needed to deal with critical global problems, underscoring twenty key ideas in support of effective multilateralism.