TEF-Youth Webinar The Neo-Cold War: The Resurgence of the Geopolitics of Global Empires in (North) East Asia Date: 20:00 p.m. (GMT 8:00) on 26 April, 2022 ♦ Concept Paper Youth Webinar: A Political and Situational Conversation on East Asia Geopolitics from a Young Peoples’ Perspective. Theme: “The Neo-Cold War: The Resurgence of the Geopolitics of Global Empires in (North) East Asia.” Proposal: To deepen the reflection presented in the last TEF steering group meeting. This webinar will be provided by the young people whose contextual perspectives will seek to stimulate an exciting conversation on the churches’ role for just and peace. The churches around the world are confronted by issues such as shifting power relations and regional instability focusing on, but going beyond, the China-US hegemonic power struggle, as well as the increasing significant roles of Japan and India. The webinar will invite reflections from the perspective of peoples’ movements and life-centered values. Hopefully, the youth webinar will nurture a renewed gospel-based theological prophetic imagination to usher in transformed regional relationships for the “healing of the nations.” The intention is to contextualize the Taiwan – China conflict in a regional/global perspective focused on forward-looking, justice-seeking and peace-building missiological imperatives for the church globally beyond descriptive analyses of imperial or hegemonic power plays. The two-hour webinar will involve a panel of four young speakers from Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Thailand speaking from young people’s perspectives followed by a Q&A session.
Welcoming Remarks
Welcoming remarks, Rev. Dr Jooseop Keum, General Secretary of the Council for World Mission (CWM) and co-convener of the TEF Keynote Speakers:
Ms Nonoka KUZE, an activist from the Sapporo Centre for Gender Equality in Japan
Ms A-Young Moon, a peace activist from PEACEMOMO from South Korea
Mr Bin-Jou Liao, a PhD candidate in Political Science at National Taiwan University in Taiwan Mr Sippachai Kunnuwong, a Communications Specialist at Fortify Rights in Thailand |