Mission & Vision
Our Mission
The challenges we face today, such as climate change, energy supply, growing inequalities, global poverty, migration, food crisis, water stress, resource scarcity and conflicts, are interlinked. Understanding the relationships between them, and the links between policies implemented in these different yet connected areas, is an essential first step towards a holistic approach to realizing the vision of the Sustainable Development Goals: transforming our world for the better.
The holistic policy approach to transformation is not just adding a policy concern as a distinct problem to a list of existing concerns and then assigning it to a specific policy agency. And it cannot address only the symptoms of these problems as they manifest on the surface. It means identifying and diagnosing the major issues of our time, new, renewed or intensified, and then establishing a strategy to deal with their structural causes.
What are the major issues of our time and their structural causes? At this conference, we address the linked crises in peace, harmony with nature, and development, with a focus on borderlands.
Our Vision & Objective
The conference aims to:
- contribute to the discourse and agenda-setting on peace, development and environment issues in borderlands;
- share knowledge and experience of peace-making in borderlands;
- draw lessons on the development, environment and peace nexus approach for the de-militarized zone (DMZ) on the Korean peninsula, in particular for Gangwon provinces such as Cheorwon;
- create networks for future research and activities.
The follow-up activities of the conference, which will take place among the network of scholars and practitioners who are interested in this topic, aim to:
- identify the scope of research and pilot testing for a future project;
- establish communication strategies for the project;
- establish fundraising strategies.
Register To Get The Online Conference Link
Are you interested in attending the conference online? Please register to get the online access link for the conference.