Documents

The First International Forum (South Korea, June 2023)

Topic 1: The Political and Military Meaning of the United States Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from the Perspective of Korean Atomic Bomb Victims

Presenter:

• Lee Samseong (Emeritus Professor of Hallym University)
  Presentation Paper

Discussants:

• Oh Dongseok (Professor of Ajou University Law School)
  Discussion Paper
• Okubo Ken-ichi (President of the Japan Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms)
  Discussion Paper

Topic 2: The Illegality of the United States Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from the Perspective of Conventional International Law as of 1945

Presenter:

• Eric David (Professor of Brussels University)
  Presentation Paper

Discussants:

• Chung Taiuk (Professor of Inha University Law School)
  Discussion Paper
• Choi Bong-tae (Chairman of the Special Committee on Human Rights for Victims of the Japanese Colonial Period of the Korean Bar Association)
  Discussion Paper

Topic 3: The Illegality of the United States Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from the Perspective of Customary International Law as of 1945

Presenter:

• Yamada Toshinori (Lecturer at Meiji University Law School)
  Presentation Paper

Discussant:

• Daniel Rietiker (Adjunct Professor at Lausanne University)
  Discussion Paper

The Second International Forum (Japan, June 2024)

Topic 1: The Historical Meaning of the United States Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from the Perspective of Korean Atomic Bomb Victims

Presenter:

• Oh Eunjeong (Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kangwon National University)
  Presentation Paper

Discussants:

• Oh Dongseok (Professor of Ajou University Law School)
  Discussion Paper
• Okubo Ken-ichi (President of the Japan Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms)
  Discussion Paper
• Fumitoshi Yoshizawa (Professor of Niigata University of International and Information Studies)
  Presentation Paper

Topic 2: The Illegality of the Use of Nuclear Weapons under International Law – Particularly IHL – after the United States Atomic Bombings of 1945

Presenter:

• Daniel Rietiker (Adjunct Professor at Lausanne University)
  Presentation Paper
• Toshinori Yamada (Lecturer at Meiji University Law School)
  Presentation Paper
• Monique Cormier (Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Monash University)
  Presentation Paper

Discussants:

• Marnie Lloydd (Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington)
  Discussion Paper
• Manfred Mohr (Co-chair of International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons)
  Discussion Paper

Topic 3: The Illegality and Incompatibility of (Extended) Deterrence with Peace in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia : Ways to Overcome It  

Presenter:

• Charles Moxley (Adjunct Professor of Law at the Fordham Law School)
  Presentation Paper
• Anna Hood (Associate Professor of the Auckland Faculty of Law)
  Presentation Paper

Discussant:

• John Kierulf (Independent Disarmament Researcher)
  Discussion Paper
• Ko Youngdae (Co-representative of SPARK)
  Discussion Paper

Roundtable <Formation of the International People’s Tribunal Organizing Committee: Toward Holding the U.S. Accountable for the Atomic Bombings>

Proposal : 

• SPARK (Solidarity for Peace and Reunification of Korea)
  Presentation Paper

Panelist :

• Brad Wolf (Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal)
  Presentation Paper
• Joseph Essertier (World BEYOND War)
  Presentation Paper
• Margaret Engel (Peace Action New York State)
  Presentation Paper
• Elliott Adams (Veterans for Peace)
• Akira Kawasaki (ICAN, Peace Boat)
  Presentation Paper
• Kim Kapsong (Korean American Peace Fund)
  Presentation Paper
• Corazon Valdez Fabros (International Peace Bureau, STOP the War Coalition Philippines)
  Presentation Paper
• Colleen Moore (The United Methodist Church—General Board of Church and Society, Video message)
  Presentation Paper