Description
Seminar at the Taiwan Education and Research Program, Sigur Center for Asian Studies, The George Washington University, Washington DC, 2:00-3:15 pm, November 2 (Thursday), 2023
Tensions across the Taiwan Strait remain high as Beijing expresses its deepening commitment to reunification, Taiwan prepares for the upcoming presidential and legislative elections, and U.S.-China competition intensifies. A non-partisan civil society initiative established in 2005, Strait Talk regularly convenes conflict resolution dialogues for young civil society delegates from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and the United States to examine the sources of these tensions. Strait Talk also enables its participants to develop action plans for resolution and build relationships. Having organized dialogues across six locations inside and outside the United States, Strait Talk has developed an alumni network of over 1,000 people working in government, business, academia, and civil society. This panel will outline the vision, history, and method of Strait Talk dialogues and highlight the experiences of Strait Talk participants from both sides of the Strait. The panel will also examine Strait Talk's contribution to humanizing cross-Strait relations, in which high-level political discussions and security issues occupy much of the public's attention. The panel concludes with findings from the two decades of action research on the shifting nature of the dialogue participants' memories of cross-Strait relations.
Moderator:
- Daqing Yang, Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, the George Washington University
Panelists:
- Ava Shen, Strait Talk Alumna/Board Member & Associate, Eurasia Group
- Adrienne Wu, Strait Talk Alumna & Research Associate, Global Taiwan Institute
- Tatsushi Arai, Founding Interactive Conflict Resolution (ICR) Facilitator, Strait Talk & Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Kent State University
Resources:
Disciplines
Publication Date
November 2, 2023
Citation Information
Tatsushi Arai. "Humanizing the Conflict Across the Taiwan Strait: Lessons from Strait Talk" (2023) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/tatsushi_arai/112/