International Conference on GCED

Opening Ceremony 09:30 ~ 10:00

Nihal RANASINGHE

Ministry of Education

Secretary

Nihal RANASINGHE

Secretary

Ministry of Education

Mr. Nihal RANASINGHE is currently the Secretary, Ministry of Education in Sri Lanka. He graduated in BSc. (Business Administration) Special from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura and obtained a Master’s Degree in Public Administration with a Merit Pass (MPA) from the Post Graduate Institute of Management, University of Sri Jayewardenepura. Mr. Nihal RANASINGHE is a Special Grade officer of the Sri Lanka Administrative Service who counts 28 years of experience in various capacities and positions.

He was first appointed as a Sri Lanka Administration Service officer in 1991 and was designated to Kurunegala District as an Assistant Divisional Secretary in Kurunegala Division. Thereafter, he served at district level & provincial levels in various positions such as Assistant District Secretary, Assistant Secretary to the Chief Ministry of North Western Province, and Provincial Director of Industries from 1991 to 2001.

He then moved to Colombo and joined the Department of Immigration and Emigration and served in different positions from Assistant Controller to the position of Controller General of Immigration and Emigration. In April 2019, he was appointed as the Secretary, Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka.
During his tenure in the public service he has participated in several international workshops, seminars, conferences in the fields of immigration management and related systems development programmes and education.
Stefania GIANNINI

UNESCO

Assistant Director-General for Education

Stefania GIANNINI

Assistant Director-General for Education

UNESCO

Ms. Stefania GIANNINI was appointed UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education in May 2018, becoming the top UN official in the field. In this position, she provides strategic vision and leadership for UNESCO in coordinating and monitoring the implementation of the Education 2030 Agenda, encapsulated in Sustainable Development Goal 4.

With an academic background in the Humanities, Ms. GIANNINI has served as Rector of the University for Foreigners of Perugia (2004 – 2012), being one of the first and youngest women to hold this position in Italy. As Senator of the Republic of Italy (2013 – 2018) and Minister of Education, Universities and Research (2014 – 2016), she developed and implemented a structural reform of the Italian education system, centred on social inclusion and cultural awareness. She has also been closely involved in an advisory capacity with the European Commissioner for Research and Innovation.
임현묵

유네스코 아시아태평양 국제이해교육원

원장

임현묵

원장

유네스코 아시아태평양 국제이해교육원

Dr. LIM Hyun Mook is currently the Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU), a UNESCO Categroy 2 Centre based in Seoul, the Republic of Korea. Prior to being inaugurated as APCEIU’s Director, Dr. LIM had served at the Korean National Commission for UNESCO for 27 years, and served as Assistant Secretary General of Education Division at the Korean National Commission for UNESCO.

He studied Spanish Language and Literature at Seoul National University and received an M.A. in Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver. He gained a Ph.D degree from the Department of Political Science, Sogang University, with the dissertation titled, “A Study on the Politics of Cultural Diversity: Liberal Multiculturalism and Its Critics”. He published “UNESCO in a Changing World Order”, in Kyung Koo Han et al, in the Republic of Korea’s Vision in Relation to UNESCO in a Changing World Order, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Korean National Commission for UNESCO in 2019. He is a Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Culture Management, Sungkyunkwan University, the Republic of Korea to date.
YOO Eun-Hae

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education

Ministry of Education, Republic of Korea
KIM Joon Hyung

Chancellor of Korea National Diplomatic Academy

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea

Keynote Speech 10:00 ~ 10:20

임지현

서강대학교 트랜스내셔널
인문학 연구소

소장

임지현

소장

서강대학교 트랜스내셔널
인문학 연구소

LIM Jie-Hyun is a professor of Transnational History and founding director of the Critical Global Studies Institute at Sogang University, Seoul. He wrote broadly on the transnational history of nationalism and Marxism and edited five volumes of the Palgrave series of ‘Mass Dictatorship in the 20th Century,’ 2011-2016. Most recently, he published the book, Memory War: How Could Perpetrators Become Victims? (2019).

He has served the steering committee of the ‘Flying University of Transnational Humanities’ since he founded it in 2010. He is now a principal investigator of the international research project of the ‘Mnemonic Solidarity: Colonialism, War, and Genocide in the Global Memory Space’ in 2017~2024 and serves the boards of the CISH, NOGWHISTO and Toynbee Prize Foundation, and the editorial boards of Moving the Social, Global-e, Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis, and etc. He launched a new Palgrave book series of ‘Entangled Memories in the Global South’ in August 2019.

Plenary Session 1 10:50 ~ 12:20

Dylan WRAY

Shikaya

Executive Director

Dylan WRAY

Executive Director

Shikaya

Mr. Dylan WRAY is the co-founder and director of Shikaya, a South African non-profit organization that supports teachers and school leaders to ensure young people leave school thinking critically, and acting as compassionate, engaged, democratic citizens. Since 2005, in partnership with Facing History and Ourselves (USA), Shikaya has trained over 10 000 South African teachers and reached over 1 million young people.

Dylan works globally as a facilitator, materials developer and author. His latest book, ‘www.aschoolwhereibelong.com’ explores issues of transformation and inclusion in South African schools.
Charlene BEARHEAD

Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre, University of British Columbia

Education and Programming Lead

Charlene BEARHEAD

Education and Programming Lead

Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre, University of British Columbia

Charlene BEARHEAD is the Education and Programming Lead at the Residential School History and Dialogue Centre. She previously served as the Education Coordinator for the National Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women, and as the First Nations, Métis and Inuit Relations Coordinator for the Alberta Schools Board Association. As an education activist with more than 30 years of regional, national and international experience, Charlene’s work focuses on education on social justice, activism, reconciliation, intergenerational trauma, the legacy of residential schools, and issues affecting Indigenous peoples.
Lydia RUPRECHT

UNESCO

Team Leader for Global Citizenship Education

Lydia RUPRECHT

Team Leader for Global Citizenship Education

UNESCO

Lydia RUPRECHT is Team leader for Global Citizenship Education (GCED) within UNESCO’s Section for Global Citizenship and Peace Education. Her areas of work currently also include the prevention of violent extremism through education and the promotion of the rule of law through education. Lydia has over twenty years of experience in development and the promotion of international understanding in various fields such as gender equality, education, HIV & AIDS, culture. In her capacities, she has been supporting and advising national and international institutions in their efforts to implement internationally agreed development goals.

Lydia RUPRECHT holds an undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of Montreal (Canada), a Maîtrise in Political science and International relations and a Diplôme d’études approfondies in Political Sociology from Université Pars I - Sorbonne (France). She also pursued PhD studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (France) as well as post-graduate courses at the Essex Summer School (UK) in Social Science Data Analysis.
Freddy MUTANGUHA

Aegis Trust

Executive Director

Freddy MUTANGUHA

Executive Director

Aegis Trust

A survivor of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, he played a key role in development of the Aegis Trust’s peace education programme in the country, the core elements of which are now incorporated in Rwanda’s school curriculum.

As Aegis’ Executive Director, he is now at the forefront of taking the successful model for peace education developed in Rwanda to other countries, working in partnership with community leaders and national or regional authorities.

He is a holder of a Master’s Degree in Project Management from Maastricht School of Management and trained as a teacher, securing a Bachelor’s Degree in Education from the Kigali Institute of Education. He worked his way through school to become a leading advocate for peace and human rights education.

In 2016, Justice and Security Foundation declared him as Peace Award Winner for his outstanding contribution to Peace. He is also profiled in the Atlanta National Human Rights Museum as a prominent activist for human rights.
Jose Fernando MEJIA

Aulas en Paz (Classrooms in Peace) Program

Executive Director

Jose Fernando MEJIA

Executive Director

Aulas en Paz (Classrooms in Peace) Program

Mr. Jose Fernando MEJIA is the Executive Director of the Classrooms in Peace (Aulas en Paz) Program, an elementary school-based multicomponent initiative for prevention of aggression through socioemotional learning. The program has been implemented in Colombia, México and Chile and inspired the Peruvian National Curriculum for socioemotional learning.

He also serves as the chair of the Board of EDUCAPAZ, a Colombian Peace Education Program which brings together the experience of seven renowned organizations, including universities and NGOs.

He has had direct participation in the designing of Peace and Citizenship Education Policies in Colombia and has worked as a consultant for international organizations such as the World Bank, the Organization of American States, the Interamerican Development Bank and the Ministries of Education of Colombia and Perú.

Mr. MEJIA studied Psychology at the University of the Andes in Colombia and received an Ed.M in Education from Harvard University.
PARK Myung-Lim

Interdisciplinary Department of Area Studies, Graduate School/Kim Dae-jung Presidential Library and Museum ...

Professor and Director

PARK Myung-Lim

Professor and Director

Interdisciplinary Department of Area Studies, Graduate School/Kim Dae-jung Presidential Library and Museum, Center for Human Peace and Healing, Yonsei University.

PARK Myung-Lim of South Korea now teaches at the Interdisciplinary Department of Area Studies, Graduate School, Yonsei University. He teaches there political theory, peace studies, constitutionalism, Korean Studies, and East Asian International Relations. He is there also a Director, Kim Dae-jung Presidential Library, Center for Human Peace and Healing, and Korean Presidential Archives, Institute of State Governance. He used to be a visiting professor to EHESS in Paris and to the Free University of Berlin in 2013-2014.

Before joining Yonsei in 2002, he has worked as a director, Center for North Korean Studies, Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University, 1994-1999, and a Coordinate Research Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University, 1999-2001.

From 1995 to 2008, he co-organized, and participated into the inter-Korean conferences with North Korean scholars and officials over 15 times in Beijing, Pyongyang, Mt. Kumkang, Shenyang, Berlin, and Seoul.

Plenary Session 2 13:20 ~ 14:30

Yonas Adaye ADETO

Institute for Peace and Security Studies, Ababa University

Director

Yonas Adaye ADETO

Director

Institute for Peace and Security Studies, Ababa University

Dr. Yonas Adaye ADETO is an assistant professor in the Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS), Addis Ababa University. He is currently Director of IPSS. He obtained his PhD degree from the University of Bradford, UK, and published peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters on peacebuilding, peace education and global security (David Publishing Company, New York, 2018; Routledge, 2019, London; African Journal on Conflict Resolution, 2019, South Africa). He made academic paper presentations on African Studies Association (Chicago, 2017 and Leipzig, Germany, 2018; and Atlanta, Georgia – December 2018); on Global Citizenship and Peace Education (Tokyo/Hiroshima, Japan, 2017; Seoul, South Korea, 2017; Botswana and Zambia, 2018).

He makes comments and gives interviews as part of public engagement on global, regional and national security issues on EBC (Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation) CGTN, and BBC Focus on Africa Programmes. As part of community service, he is currently working with Ethiopian Foreign Policy Review Team, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Janet PILLAI

Arts-ED, Penang

Founder

Janet PILLAI

Founder

Arts-ED, Penang

Janet PILLAI served as an associate professor at the Department of Performing Arts at the University Sains Malaysia until 2013 and founded Arts-ED (2007), a non-profit organization in Penang which provides arts and culture education for young people. PILLAI specializes in arts education and creative pedagogies particularly for young people. She is currently an independent researcher and resource person who programs and trains at community-engaged projects in partnership/consultation with the community, local agencies and creative professionals. PILLAI has authored 3 books and numerous articles on arts and culture education and serves as an expert resource person in the region.
Lynette SHULTZ

University of Alberta

Professor

Lynette SHULTZ

Professor

University of Alberta

Lynette SHULTZ, PhD, is Professor and Director of the Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Research at the University of Alberta. Her research is focused on how global issues and processes impact the wellbeing of people and other species on the planet. She has researched and published widely on the topics of global citizenship and education, ethical internationalization, youth participation and citizenship, and global governance and education.
Khalaf Marhoun AL'ABRI

Sultan Qaboos University

Assistant Professor/Head of Quality Assurance and Accreditation Unit

Khalaf Marhoun AL'ABRI

Assistant Professor/Head of Quality Assurance and Accreditation Unit

Sultan Qaboos University

Khalaf AL'ABRI is an assistant professor in the College of Education at Sultan Qaboos University. He is researching education policy in the Arab Gulf States with a focus on its global and regional impact. More specifically, Dr. AL'ABRI studies the impact of globalization on education systems and their policies and how international organizations play a role in the development of nations’ education systems. Khalaf is currently the director of the Accreditation and Quality assurance Unit at the College of Education where he supervises and manages the accreditation process of the college.

In his recent academic work, Al’abri deeply studies global citizenship education and how it can be implemented in education systems. For his great efforts, Khalaf won the Global Citizen Award from APCEIU for one of his projects on GCED that focuses on teaching pre-schooling children to be global citizens. Dr. AL'ABRI finished his PhD degree from the University of Queensland, Australia in 2016.

Concurrent Session 1 15:40 ~ 17:10

1A

Cliodhna SCOTT-WILLS

Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education (NICIE)

Senior Development Officer

Cliodhna SCOTT-WILLS

Senior Development Officer

Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education (NICIE)

Cliodhna SCOTT-WILLS is a Senior Development Officer for the Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education (NICIE). Her main role is to support Integrated Schools in developing their ethos in all aspects of school life. She does this through supporting the Excellence in Integrated Education Award (EIEA), organising training such as Anti-Bias in Education, Peer Mediation, school ethos development and bespoke training for schools as requested. She represents the interests of Integrated Education on external committees. She presents regularly to various groups – nationally and internationally – and is interested in finding out more about the development of Integrated Education and the transformative aspects of Integrated Education for pupils, staff, governors and parents.

Cliodhna received her Bachelor’s Degree in Education 1992 and her Masters of Education in 1996. She taught for 9 years in post-primary schools, five of which were in Lagan College, Northern Ireland’s first Integrated school.
Romina Giselle KASMAN

OREALC/UNESCO Santiago

Programme Specialist

Romina Giselle KASMAN

Programme Specialist

OREALC/UNESCO Santiago

Romina KASMAN is currently working as Programme Specialist at the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Education in Latin American and the Caribbean, performing tasks related to the coordination of the regional education programme and the implementation of Global Citizenship Education. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Political Science (University of Salvador, Argentina), a Masters Degree in Economics for Education and Entrepreneurship (University of Delaware, United States) and a Masters Degree in International Education (The George Washington University, United States). Previously, she worked at the Organization of American States for seven years coordinating the Inter-American Program on Education for Democratic Values and Practices and the education policy dialogue process between Ministers of Education of the Americas. For 15 years, she has been designing and implementing civic, citizenship and economic education initiatives at national, regional and international levels, involving the training of educators, children and youth and the development of education resources.
Cyomara Inurrigarro GUILLEN

Escuela Normal Miguel F. Martínez

Teacher

Cyomara Inurrigarro GUILLEN

Teacher

Escuela Normal Miguel F. Martínez

Cyomara Inurrigarro GUILLEN is currently a full-time master academic at Miguel F. Martínez College, where she is the lead investigator of the research group “Alma Mater.” Additionally, she is the Curriculum Director of San Patricio College, and before this responsibility, she was the General Director of the same institution at Campus Cumbres. She has been a member of the ASPnet chapter Nuevo Leon since 2006. Her academic focus is on teacher training. She holds two M.A.s in Science Methodology by UANL and Education in Cognitive Development by ITESM. She is presently studying a Ph.D. in Educational Research and Innovation by ENSE Moisés Sáenz Garza, in Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
오용진

부천공업고등학교

교사

오용진

교사

부천공업고등학교

Mr. OH Yongjin is currently a history teacher at Bucheon Technical High school in Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea. He has taught history and social studies for 17 years in various middle and high schools. He has tried to make students realize their real surroundings with their own perspectives.

He has found the ways of ‘living together as a global citizens’ with students. Recently, he developed an interest for connecting learning and living. He firmly believes that transformative education has the capacity to bridge learning and the real world of students.

1B

수성구청

평생교육과

수성구청

평생교육과

수성구는 대한민국 동남부에 위치한 도시로 2011년 평생학습도시, 국제교육도시연합(IAEC) 가입, 2016년 유네스코글로벌학습도시네트워크(GNLC) 가입으로 교육도시로 활동하고 있으며 2017년 [세계시민교육 수성 공동 선언문 채택]과 더불어 세계시민교육 시민 전문가 양성, 유네스코 지침서에 따른 세계시민교육 프로그램 개발, 세미나 개최, 학교 강사 지원 등 세계시민교육 확산을 위해 다양한 정책을 펼치고 있습니다.
세계시민교육연구회

세계시민교육연구회

세계시민교육연구회는 수성구청에서 운영한 [세계시민교육 전문가 양성과정]을 수료한 지역 시민들로 구성된 단체로 매주 모임을 통하여 유네스코 지침서를 연구하고 세계시민교육 프로그램 개발, 교사 연수, 강의, 교구 개발 등 다양한 활동을 하고 있습니다.
GCED Maker Clubs

GCED Maker Clubs

World Class Time, Cham-Cham-Cham, Make-Maker, C.T.W.(Change the World), TMB 3.1(Together Make Better 3.1), Modory, Star with Friends, Butter&Coconut, Hurray

1C

Helen HENDERSON

St Columbs Park House Peace Centre

Strategy Manager

Helen HENDERSON

Strategy Manager

St Columbs Park House Peace Centre

Helen HENDERSON is the Strategy Manager of St Columb’s Park House, a Peace and Reconciliation Centre based in Derry/Londonderry in Northern Ireland. In this role she develops the vision for the organisation alongside the development of core peace programmes that engage the local community. She has spent most of her working life in the community sector and worked for many years with an international NGO, Children in Crossfire, delivering their global education programme with teachers and youth workers. She completed a Masters in ‘Education for Contemporary Society’ and is keen to further explore how nature can contribute towards cultivating peace and a holistic sense of identity. Helen is passionate about ordinary people making extraordinary differences and volunteers in a local community that has suffered from on-going violence and poverty, supporting local residents as change-makers. In her spare time, she loves to be in the sea with her boys.
Loizos LOUKAIDIS

Educational Programs Officer

Association for Historical Dialogue and Research (AHDR)

Loizos LOUKAIDIS

Association for Historical Dialogue and Research (AHDR)

Educational Programs Officer

Loizos holds a BA in Primary Education (Aristotle University, Greece) and an MA in Peace Education (UPEACE, Costa Rica) where he specifically sought to examine history teaching as a vehicle for promoting a culture of peace. He has extensive experience in the education sector both as a primary school teacher and a Peace Education activist, project coordinator and researcher. His research interests include Peace Education, Gender, Human Rights, Religious Education and History Education. Loizos is currently the Educational Programs Officer of the Association for Historical Dialogue and Research (AHDR). In 2016, Loizos was appointed by the President of the Republic of Cyprus as a member of the Bi-communal Technical Committee on Education in the context of the ongoing peace negotiations. He is also the coordinator of the ‘Imagine’ Project that has brought together around 3700 students and 400 teachers from across the divide in Cyprus during school hours.
Rilli LAPPALAINEN

Bridge 47

Chair of the Steering Group

Rilli LAPPALAINEN

Chair of the Steering Group

Bridge 47

Rilli LAPPALAINEN is the Founder and Chair of Bridge 47, a global network that brings people together to share and learn about Global Citizenship Education. Bridge 47 mobilises people to act for positive change with the help of Global Citizenship Education through facilitating networking, doing advocacy, building partnerships and providing spaces for innovation.

Rilli is currently working as the Director of Policy and Advocacy in Fingo, which is the platform for Finnish Development NGOs. Rilli is a regular speaker on global issues at national, European and global levels, and also holds several positions of trust, for example as the co-chair of Forus, a global network of National NGO Platforms.

Previously Rilli has worked e.g. with the NGO Operation a Day’s Work Finland (ODW), the European Commission and in development cooperation in Nepal and Senegal.