Amid growing expectations of peace on the Korean peninsula, more voices are calling for 

more efforts to promote peace studies. Jeju Peace Institute, which was established as a 

platform for peace studies and international cooperation in 2006 when Jeju Island was 

designated as the Island of World Peace, is to explore a new paradigm to implement peace 

in this era, jointly with internationally acclaimed peace research institutes attending the Jeju 

Forum this year. 

The session entitled “Towards a Sustainable Peace: Restorative Justice and Peace Education” 

from 3:20 p.m. to 4:50 p.m. on June 27, the second day of the Jeju Forum, co-sponsored by 

Jeju Peace Institute and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at University of 

Notre Dame will review recent developments in peace studies in the context of the 

correlation between peace and justice. 

George A. Lopez, Professor Emeritus at the Kroc Institute; Ma Sang-Yoon, Director-General 

for policy planning at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; David Hooker and Mahan Mirza, 

professors at University of Notre Dame; Kim Ji Eun, Professor at Eastern Mennonite 

University; and Yi Seong-Woo, Research Fellow at Jeju Peace Institute will participate in the 

session to discuss how restorative justice contributes to post-dispute peace-building, and 

how peace education with more rigorous and innovative programs can help better respond 

to ethnic, religious, and inter-state conflicts. 

As a representative hub of peace studies in the U.S. which conducts researches on the 

causes of violent disputes and sustainable peace, the Kroc Institute has developed the Peace 

Accord Matrix and monitored the implementation of 34 peace agreements made across the 

world since 1989. 

The “Inequality: A Challenge for Our World” session from 5:10 p.m. to 6:40 p.m. on June 

27, co-sponsored by Jeju Peace Institute and the Graduate Institute of Peace Studies (GIP) at 

Kyunghee University, will hold a discussion on Goal 10 of the Sustainable Development 

Goals (SDGs), “to reduce inequality within and among countries.”

This session is to respond to the continued attention and efforts to redress inequality within 

a country and between countries amid economic instability, as a follow-up to the special 

meeting on inequality held by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United 

Nations in 2016. 

This session is moderated by Prof. Oh Joon of the GIP at Kyunghee University, who was 

president of ECOSCO in 2016, and Nikhil Seth, Executive Director of the United Nations 

Institute for Training and Research, Prof. Kwon Gibung, Rector of the GIP, Prof. You Jong-Il 

of the KDI School of public policy and management and Erik Iverson, Managing Director of 

the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, will discuss the political, economic, social and 

international aspects of the inequality issue.