{"id":15286,"date":"2017-06-10T21:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/?p=15286"},"modified":"2017-06-17T21:28:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T12:28:39","slug":"25th-seminar-of-global-peacebuilding-association-of-japan-10062017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/ja\/2017\/06\/10\/15286","title":{"rendered":"25th Seminar of Global Peacebuilding Association of Japan (10\/06\/2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u3000Participants Debate on \u201cthe Current Situation and Challenges in Thailand\u201d and \u201cChallenges faced by Myanmar and Cambodia\u201d introduced by Former Ambassador Kojima and MOFA Asia Bureau Deputy Director-General Takizaki.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/170610_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15287\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/170610_01.jpg 814w, http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/170610_01-448x336.jpg 448w, http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/170610_01-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/170610_01-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/center><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u3000In the first session, Seiji Kojima, the former Japanese Ambassador to Thailand talked about the current situation in Thailand, especially its political situation. He emphasized the implications of coup d&#8217;\u00e9tat repeated in the country, referring to its high approval rate by its citizens. He also mentioned the difference of political and constitutional processes between Thailand and Pakistan, on the basis of his experience as an ambassador to Pakistan. Following Ambassador Kojima`s briefing, the participants discussed the characteristic of the Monarchy of Thailand. The point of the discussion was the role the King plays will change in the future and whether the form of its politics can be called \u201cdemocracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/170610_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15288\" \/><\/center><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/170610_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15289\" \/><\/center><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u3000In the second session, Shigeki Takizaki, Deputy Director-General, Asian &#038; Oceanian Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan talked about challenges faced in Myanmar and Cambodia. As for Myanmar, he mentioned the current civilian government run on delicate balance between the army and the civilian government. As for Cambodia, he talked about the recent development of its politics and its democracy along with its deepening relations with China.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/170610_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15290\" \/><\/center><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u3000In the discussion, a question, \u201cWhat is democracy?,\u201d was continuingly raised and participants discussed ways to achieve both \u201cdemocracy\u201d in Cambodia and good relationship between Japan and Cambodia.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/170610_05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15291\" \/><\/center><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u3000In summary, the most controversial point of discussion in the seminar was what is meant by \u201cdemocracy\u201d in South East Asia. There is need to discuss more how to deal with difference between democracy of Western countries and the Southeast Asian region.<\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<div align=\"right\">Drafted by \u6728\u4e0b\u822a<\/br>2017\/06\/12<\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Participants Debate on \u201cthe Current Situation and Challenges in Thailand\u201d and \u201cChallenges faced by Myanmar and Cambodia\u201d introduced by Former Ambassador Kojima and MOFA Asia Bureau Deputy Director-General Takizaki.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seminar","category-seminar2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15286"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15295,"href":"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15286\/revisions\/15295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}