Education is a normative human right, but it also serves a practical function of improving domestic and international governance performance. Those who govern have an obligation to provide conditions of peace and security, to reconcile conflicts of interest, and to generate collective good. The presentations in this panel reflect upon the myriad ways in which supporting education and capacity-building training programs can not only bring benefit to the recipients, but also to the wider communities to which they belong. These include building resilience through empowering civil society, promoting democratic governance through civic education, building peace within and between societies, using education and training as tools of development, the public diplomacy role of educational scholarships, and the internationalisation of learning environments.

Biographies

Brendan M. Howe
Ewha Womans University, South Korea

Brendan Howe is Dean and Professor of the Graduate School of International Studies, Ewha Womans University, South Korea, where he has also served two terms as Associate Dean and Department Chair. He is also currently the President of the Asian Political and International Studies Association, and an Honorary Ambassador of Public Diplomacy and advisor for the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has held visiting professorships and research fellowships at the East-West Center (where he is currently enjoying a second term as a POSCO Visiting Research Fellow), the Freie Universität Berlin, De La Salle University, the University of Sydney, Korea National Defence University, Georgetown University, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, and Beijing Foreign Studies University.

Educated at the University of Oxford, the University of Kent at Canterbury, Trinity College Dublin, and Georgetown University, his ongoing research agendas focus on traditional and non-traditional security in East Asia, human security, middle powers, public diplomacy, post-crisis development, comprehensive peacebuilding and conflict transformation. He has authored, co-authored, or edited around 100 related publications including Society and Democracy in South Korea and Indonesia (Palgrave, 2022), The Niche Diplomacy of Asian Middle Powers (Lexington Books, 2021), UN Governance: Peace and Human Security in Cambodia and Timor-Leste (Springer, 2020), Regional Cooperation for Peace and Development (Routledge, 2018), National Security, State Centricity, and Governance in East Asia (Springer, 2017), Peacekeeping and the Asia-Pacific (Brill, 2016), Democratic Governance in East Asia (Springer, 2015), Post-Conflict Development in East Asia (Ashgate, 2014), and The Protection and Promotion of Human Security in East Asia (Palgrave, 2013).

Aurel Croissant
Ewha Womans University, South Korea

Dr Aurel Croissant is Professor of Political Science at Heidelberg University, Germany, and Visiting Professor with the GSIS Frontier 10-10 project at Ewha Womans University, South Korea. His research interests include civil-military relations, democratisation, authoritarianism, and comparative Asian politics. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Democratization and serves on the Academic Advisory Boards of the German Institute for Global Affairs, the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, the Bertelsmann Transformation Index, and the Sustainable Governance Indicators. He held Fellowships with the Korea Foundation, the National Endowment for Democracy, the East West Center (Honolulu), the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, and the Australian National University, among others. His recent publications include Routes to Reform: Civil-Military Relations and Democracy in the Third Wave (Oxford University Press, 2023), Comparative Politics of Southeast Asia (2nd edition, Springer), Stateness and Democracy in East Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2020; edited with O. Hellmann), and Civil-Military Relations in Southeast Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2018). He also serves as co-editor of the Research Handbook Autocratization (Routledge, 2024) and the Research Handbook on Civil-Military Relations (Edward Elgar, 2024). His new manuscript, Dictator’s Endgames, is currently under contract with Oxford University Press.

Hannah Jun
Ewha Womans University, South Korea

Hannah Jun specialises in sustainability and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues, with a focus on sustainability education, sustainability reporting, and ESG investing. She received her master’s and doctoral degrees from Ewha Womans University, South Korea and her bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, United States. She previously taught at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Hanyang University, and Sogang University. She also worked as an equity research analyst covering the semiconductor and IT industries at Lehman Brothers and Nomura Securities. Highlighted research includes Growth, emissions, and climate finance nexus for sustainable development: Revisiting the environmental Kuznets curve (Sustainable Development, 2023), One in the same? Unpacking corporate social responsibility (CSR) and ESG in South Korea (Korea Observer, 2023), Teaching sustainability: Complexity and compromises (Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2020), An exploration of student learning for sustainability through the WikiRate student engagement project (The International Journal of Management Education, 2019).

Hyukmin Kang
Ewha Womans University, South Korea

Dr Hyukmin Kang is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Ewha Womans University, South Korea. He completed his PhD at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand. His research focuses on the nexus of transitional justice and peacebuilding in the Korean Peninsula and in broader East Asia. His articles appear in Peacebuilding, Peace Review, Peace and Conflict, and the Journal of Korean Religions.

About the Presenter(s)
-Brendan Howe is Dean and Professor of the Graduate School of International Studies, Ewha Womans University, South Korea.
-Dr Aurel Croissant is Professor of Political Science at Heidelberg University, Germany, and Visiting Professor with the GSIS Frontier 10-10 project at Ewha Womans University, South Korea.
-Hannah Jun specialises in sustainability and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues, with a focus on sustainability education, sustainability reporting, and ESG investing.
-Dr Hyukmin Kang is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Ewha Womans University, South Korea.

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