Minerals Extraction and Human Rights Violation in Conflict-Affected Area -Has Conflict Minerals Regulation brought about Mechanism Change in the DRC?
On 17h Dec., 2021, SDGs Collaborative Research Unit of the Institute for Future Initiatives (IFI) was delighted to host the workshop entitled “Minerals Extraction and Human Rights Violation in Conflict-Affected Area -Has Conflict Minerals Regulation brought about Mechanism Change in the DRC?
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Date: 2021.12.17(Fri.)
Time: 18:30-20:30
Venue: Online (Webinar)
Host: SDGs Collaborative Research Unit, Institute for Future Initiatives (IFI), University of Tokyo
JSPS Scientific Research B “Minerals Extraction and Human Rights Violation in Conflict-Affected Area”
Co-Hosts: NPO organization RITA-Congo
Mitsubishi Foundation Research Grant Project “Responsibility of Developing Countries on the Conflict Minerals Issue and Sexual Violence in the DRC”
Opening Remarks: Kazuyo Hanai (Assistant Professor, Institute for Future Initiatives, The University of Tokyo)
Speakers:
Kazuyo Hanai, Assistant Professor, The University of Tokyo
“Has Conflict Minerals Regulation brought about Mechanism Changes in the DRC Conflict?”
Masako Yonekawa, Researcher, Meiji Gakuin University
“The Origins of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence as a Tactic of War in Eastern DRC”
Jean-Claude Maswana, Professor, Ritsumeikan University
“Unreported Minerals Trade in the DRC and its Impacts”
Koji Oishi, Researcher, Aoyama Gakuin University
“Network structure of global development aid: An analysis with stochastic block models”
Discussant: Yutaka Hayashi, Associate Professor, Fukuoka University