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9DETAILED CONFERENCE SCHEDULESaturday, September 1 continued4:30 – 6:00 pm Concurrent Panel SessionsRoom 1(2nd floor)Room 2(2nd floor)Room 3(2nd floor)Empowering Health and Family WellnessChair/Moderator: RAJESH AGGARWAL, AssociateProfessor, Centre for Research in Rural and IndustrialDevelopment, INDIAATIF IKRAM BUTT, PhD Fellow, Ruhr University Bochum,GERMANY“Ulama as Agents for Development Communication?”AZADEH DAVARI, Leadership and FNS Trainer andResearcher, The Leadership Group, IRAN andARASH RASHIDI, Research Assistant Professor,National Nutrition and Food Technology ResearchInstitute, IRAN (co-author TED BAARTMANS)“Iranian Food and Nutrition Leadership Program(IFNLP): A Global Perspective, A Local Initiative”AGUNG MUNINJAYA, Director, The Center of HealthServices Management, Udayana University, INDONESIA“Health Seeking Behavior among Pregnant Mothersin the Village of Pengotan Bangli – Bali”From Vision to Action:Building Student Capacity for Today'sKnowledge Economy and SocietyChair/Moderator: NAMJI STEINEMANN, AssociateDirector, Education Program, East-West Center, USAPanelists to be announcedTo succeed as 21st century citizens, workers, andinnovators, today’s youth will need not only specializedcontent knowledge, but also critical thinking, problemsolvingskills, and creativity; information and medialiteracy; and interpersonal and collaboration skills.Education that prepares students with such knowledgeand skills make a profound difference for societies andfor the next generation of learners. This discussion willfeature a panel of international educational leaders whowill share insights into effective practices that translatevision for 21st century education into action in terms ofclassroom instruction, real-world learning opportunities,and meaningful assessments to build student capacitywhile offering a forum for dialogue about best practices.Cultural Approaches to BiodiversityChair/Moderator: JEFFREY DIPPMANSUNITA CHAUDHARY, Research Associate, <strong>International</strong>Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, NEPAL(co-authors KRISHNA PRASAD OLI and GOPAL S. RAWAT)“Managing Biodiversity in Kailash Sacred Landscape:A Bio-Culturally Rich Transboundary Landscape inChina, India and Nepal”JEFFREY DIPPMAN, Associate Professor, CentralWashington University, USA“Contemporary Daoist Approaches to EnvironmentalPreservation”MUHAMMAD IBRAHIM, PAKISTAN“Effect of Global Warming on Siachen Glacier andPakistan’s Agriculture”RONNIE LITTLEJOHN, Chair, Department of Philosophy,Belmont University, USA“Nature as Garden; Man as Gardener: In and BeyondRevisionist Confucianism”Room 8(2nd floor)VIP Room(1st floor)Looking to Technologyfor Sustainable SolutionsChair/Moderator: SENGODA RAJAMANIKARL FROGNER, President & Project DevelopmentHead, UB <strong>International</strong>, USA“Biochar in Smallholder Sustainable RuralDevelopment for Timely Climate Change Mitigation”SENGODA RAJAMANI, Chairman, <strong>International</strong> Unionof Environment Commission, INDIA“Recovery of Water from Domestic & IndustrialWaste Water Under Zero Liquid Discharge Concept”SIVA SAKTHIRAJ RAJAMANI, Climate Change andSustainability Advisor, Ernst & Young, INDIA“Sustainable Low-Carbon Growth Trajectory for India”V. BRUCE J. TOLENTINO, Deputy Director-General,<strong>International</strong> Rice Research Institute, PHILIPPINES“Global Rice Situation, Food Security, and ClimateChange”Cultural Representationthrough Cross-Cultural PerformanceChair/Moderator: WILLIAM FELTZWILLIAM FELTZ, Manager, Arts Program, East-WestCenter, USA, and ERIC CHANG, Program Assistant,Arts Program, East-West Center, USA“Fostering Understanding Through The EWC ArtsProgram”MING YANG, Degree Fellow, East-West Center, USA“Jingjiu (Beijing Opera) at the University of Hawai‘i”Moonlight Hall Different Roads to(1st floor) Governance Reform in AsiaChair/Moderator: SHABBIR CHEEMA, Senior Fellow,East-West Center and Director, Asia-PacificGovernance and Democracy Initiative, USA andJAY HEFFRON, Associate Director, Pacific BasinResearch Center, Soka University of America, USASHABBIR CHEEMA, Senior Fellow, East-West Centerand Director, Asia-Pacific Governance and DemocracyInitiative, USA“Pakistan: Civil-Military Relations in a Post CrisisState”DANIEL R. FUNG, SBS, SC, QC, JP, Des VoeuxChambers, HONG KONG“China: Emerging Issues in Corporate Governance”WILMAR SALIM, Assistant Professor, BandungInstitute of Technology, INDONESIA“Decentralization in Indonesia: Lessons Learnedfrom the ‘Big Bang’ Approach”WYLMA SAMARANAYAKE-ROBINSON, Faculty,University of Phoenix, USA“Myanmar’s Leadership: A Not So Odd Couple”PUSHPA THAMBIPILLAI, Visiting Senior ResearchFellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies,SINGAPORE“Malaysia: Governance in a Plural Society”7:00 pm Welcome Receptionand Cultural PresentationYingjie Exchange Center, Sunlight Hall (1st floor)Hosted by the EWC/EWCA and the University of Hawai‘i

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