BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), BRAC University organized a Public lecture on Security Governance for Conflict Prevention by Professor Tatsuo Yamane, Associate Professor at the Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation (IDEC), Hiroshima University, Japan at the BIGD Conference Room on 1st July, 2015.
In his lecture, Professor Yamane, also a research fellow in the Institute for Peace Science Hiroshima University (IPSHU) shared the institutional mechanism between Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and West Africa Network for Peace building (WANEP) in West African Region on conflict prevention. Dr. Sultan Hafeez Rahman, the Executive Director of BIGD moderated the lecture session. Followed by the lecture, BIGD Researchers and Staffs participated in an interesting Q/A session with Professor Yamane.
Among others, the lecture was also attended by BIGD Head of Research Dr. Minhaj Mahmud; Mr. Tsuyoshi Hikita and Ms. Masako Saito, both the Second Secretaries, Mr. Shohei Souoda, Researcher, of the Embassy of Japan in Dhaka respectively; Dr. Jashim Uddin, Senior Research Fellow, Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS) were present. The public lecture session was concluded with the speech of Dr. Sultan Hafeez Rahman followed by Iftar.
Mr. Yamane’s main areas of interest are International Relations on international peace and security studies, especially on armed conflicts and peace building.