Conference Reports and Intelligence Briefings

IAFOR produces conference reports that provide concise and coherent overviews of the ideas, conversations and areas of research present. These include key themes and takeaways, referencing programme(s), speakers and attendees, which are curated and archived for both those who attended the event, as well as those who did not, to stay abreast of many of the developments and insights provided by the conference, and the collective intelligence of its participants. The reports are not meant to be, and indeed cannot be exhaustive, and yet they aim to make a significant intellectual contribution drawn from the unique collaborative and contrastive space of IAFOR events.

Links to video recordings of the presentations and interviews references are included where possible, encouraging readers to engage further with the conference material and presentations.
Each report contains photos of the event, as well as key statistics pertaining to general attendance and demographics.


2024

  • SEACE2024
    SEACE2024
    February 15-19 | Chiang Mai, Thailand
  • ACEID/ACP/AGen2024
    ACEID/ACP/AGen2024
    March 25-29 | Tokyo, Japan

SEACE2024
February 15-19 | Chiang Mai, Thailand

Associated Conferences

The 4th Southeast Asian Conference on Education (SEACE2024)

Overview

The 4th Southeast Asian Conference on Education (SEACE2024) held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, focused its discussions around how to achieve a peaceful and harmonious coexistence within a society that is becoming increasingly diverse and polarised. While there are many facets to this global issue, one case where we can observe the recent rise in violence, marginalisation, and exclusion is an arena that may very well become this issue's remedy - Education.

From hidden school violence to cultural bias, structural and political exclusion, and vulnerability in the face of natural disasters, all keynote speakers and panel presenters highlighted how these issues can be attributed to educational deficiencies—whether agency-wise, structural, cultural, or political in nature—but at the same time, how education itself can change human behaviour and agency, increase resilience, enhance social cohesion, reduce political polarisation, foster sustainability, and abolish cultural bias.


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ACEID/ACP/AGen2024
March 25-29 | Tokyo, Japan

Associated Conferences

The 10th Asian Conference on Education & International Development (ACEID2024)
The 14th Asian Conference on Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences (ACP2024)
The 10th Asian Conference on Aging & Gerontology (AGen2024)

Overview

The central theme connecting the three conference programmes focused on communication and education for peace. Under the rubric of peace, dialogue, and the role of education, keynote speakers and panellists addressed issues on the generation of fear, threat, and violence; the interaction with the ‘other’ through psychological concepts and the physical threat present within international relations; the idea of saving others through Official Development Assistance (ODA); the importance of perception of the older or generational ‘other’ and the debate on ethics and care as we transition to an AI-dominated world.


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