Title: 'How can the European experience be brought to bear on the search for peace on the Korean peninsula?' 27th June 2024
Major General (Ret.) Mats Engman: Head of the Stockholm Korea Center and Distinguished Military Fellow, Institute for Security and Development Policy.
Universal Peace Federation - Europe and the Middle East
Universal Peace Federation - UK
MC: Humphrey Hawksley, Former BBC World Affairs Correspondent, Author and Commentator
Panel:
Dr Samir Puri: Associate Fellow, UK in the World Programme, Chatham House
Major General (Ret.) Mats Engman: Head of the Stockholm Korea Center and Distinguished Military Fellow, Institute for Security and Development Policy.
Major General (Ret.) Mats Engman, is the Head of the Stockholm Korea Center and Distinguished Military Fellow at ISDP. His expertise lies in security policy, military strategy and crisis management, and his work has a particular focus on developments in East Asia, and the Korean Peninsula.
Maj Gen Engman has more than forty years of active military service. His most recent assignment was as the Head of the Swedish Delegation to the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission, in South Korea between 2015-2017. He was commissioned in the Swedish Air Force in 1976 and has predominantly served in joint and international positions. Among those are; two times as a UN military observer in the Middle East, three years as the Defense attaché to the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, Instructor in strategy at the National Defense College, Deputy Director of the Military and Security Directorate and Head of the International Department at the Joint Staff.
Backgrounder:
"In Europe's rich tapestry, diverse nations with complex histories have overcome past conflicts through compromise and soft power. Transitioning from non-democratic to democratic governance, Europe leveraged trading, political, legal, and military agreements for peace, stability, and economic growth. Can this experience be applied to engage the DPRK and facilitate change? As Europe catalysed transformation in Eastern Europe can similar strategies be effective in North Korea?
Humphrey Hawksley is an award-winning author and foreign correspondent whose assignments with the BBC have taken him to crises all over the world. His Rake Ozenna series originated when reporting from the US-Russian border during heightened tension
He has been guest lecturer at universities and think tanks such as the RAND Corporation, The Center for Strategic and International Studies and MENSA Cambridge. He moderates the monthly Democracy Forum debates on international issues and is a host on the weekly Goldster Book Club where he discusses books and talks to authors. He has presented numerous BBC documentaries and his latest non-fiction work is Asian Waters: The Struggle Over the Indo-Pacific and the Challenge to American Power.
Dr. Samir Puri was raised in 1980s London in a family that had traversed three continents in three generations, from Asia to Africa to Europe.
He later completed a PhD at Cambridge University in International Relations, worked at RAND, and then the Foreign Office, where his assignments covered counter-terrorism, and a year in east Ukraine monitoring the onset of war in 2014 - 15.
After government service, Dr Puri became a lecturer in War Studies at King's College London, and guest lectured at Cambridge and Johns Hopkins. He retains a visiting post at King’s and between 2020 and 2022 was Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Singapore. In 2023, he became an Associate Fellow at Chatham House.
His book, 'The Great Imperial Hangover', is a distillation of these varied perspectives: from the academic to the practical; from the personal to the political; and from the descendants of the colonized to those of the colonizers. www.samirpuri....
Robin Marsh
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