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TON DUC THANG UNIVERSITY

TENTATIVE PROGRAM

Venue: Ton Duc Thang University, No. 19 Nguyen Huu Tho Street, Tan Phong Ward, District 7, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Day1: Friday July 25, 2014

7:30 9:30 AM Registration

9:30 10:15 AM Opening Session

Welcome Remarks

Prof. Le Vinh Danh, President of Ton Duc Thang University

Keynote Speech

Dr. Dang Ngoc Tung, President

Vietnam General Confederation of Labor

Keynote Address

(To be announced)

10:15 10:30 AM Tea break

10: 30 10:35 AM Program Chairs Report

Prof. Nguyen Manh Hung, George Mason University, USA

10:35 12:35 AM Panel I: Multiple Perspectives on the East China Sea Disputes

Chairs: Murray Hiebert, Center for Strategic and International Studies,

Washington, DC, USA; Ramses Amer, Institute for Security and Development

Policy, Sweden

International Conference on East Sea Disputes 2014

25-26 July, 2014, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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Panelists:

1. ASEAN and Settlement of disputes in the East Sea in the New Context A

Personal View

Vo Minh Tap, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

2. Contrasting the Chinese and Japanese Views of the South China Sea

Disputes

Ming Wan, George Mason University, USA

3. Fostering Cooperative Trends in the South China Sea: Russian Perspective

Evgeny Kanaev, National Research University-Higher School of Economics

and Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Ministry of Foreign

Affairs, Russia

4. Chinas Game Plan in the South China Sea

S.D. Pradhan, Chandigarh University and former Deputy National Security

Adviser to the Prime Minister of India

5. Contested Space: National and Micronational Claims to the Spratly/Truong

Sa Islands - A Vietnamese Perspective

Tran Huu Thuy Giang, Southern Cross University, Australia

6. East Sea Conflict: Great Powers Behavior and the Role of the United

Nations

Vu Manh Cuong, Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam

7. Vietnamese Foreign Policy and the South China Sea Disputes

Doan Thi Quang, University of Queensland, Australia

12:35 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 2:30 PM Panel II: Disputes in the South China Sea: Causes and Opportunities

Chair: Ming Wan, George Mason University, USA

Panelists:

1. Nationalism in East Asia: Causes and Effects on Conflict Resolution in the

East Sea

Tuong Vu, University of Oregon, USA

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2. Seabed Oil and Gas: Disputes Driver or Key to Settlement

David Brown, Retired US Diplomat and Independent Researcher

2:30 - 3:00 PM Tea break

3:00 - 5:00 PM Panel III: Science and Politics in Managing the East Sea Disputes

Chairs: Truong Minh Huy Vu and Pham Ngoc Minh Trang, Vietnam National

University-Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Panelists:

1. Scientification in Managing the East Sea Disputes

Truong Minh Huy Vu and Nguyen The Phuong, Vietnam National University-

HCMC

2. Vietnam Marine Planning for Environment and Sovereignty- A reference

View

Du Van Toan and Le Vinh Truong, Southeast Asian Sea Research Foundation

3. Clash of Vision: How the U.S. and China Interpreting Freedom of

Navigation: The Case of East Sea Disputes

Pham Ngoc Minh Trang, Vietnam National University HCMC

Discussant:

Ms. Cheryl Rita Kaur a/p Dalbir Singh, Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA),

Malaysia

6:30 - 9:00 PM Welcome dinner, hosted by Prof. Le Vinh Danh, President of Ton Duc Thang

University (Oscar Hotel)

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Day 2: Saturday July 26, 2014

09:00 - 10:30 AM Panel IV: Legal Approach to the South China Sea Disputes

Chair: Carlyle A.Thayer, Australian Defense Force Academy, The University of

New South Wales, Australia.

Panelists:

1. Institution and Methods for Resolving Territorial Disputes under

International Law

Hoang Viet, Ho Chi Minh City University of Law, Vietnam

2. UNCLOS in the Spotlight of International Disputes in the East Sea: Gaps

and the Ways Out

Natalia G. Prisekina, Far Eastern Federal University, Russia

3. The Case of The Philippines v. The Peoples Republic of China before the

Arbitral Tribunal constituted under Annex VII to UNCLOS--A Chinese

Perspective

Cao Qun, Center for Maritime Security and Cooperation, Beijing Normal

University, China

4. Bringing China to Court and Its Politico-Economic Impacts

Le Trung Tinh and Le Vinh Truong, Southeast Asia Sea Research Foundation

10:30 10:45 AM Tea break

10:45 11:30 AM Discussants:

1. Renato De Castro, De La Salle University, the Philippines

2. Irena Chan, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore

11:30 12:30 PM Lunch

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1:00 3:00 PM Panel V: Dispute Settlement and Management in the South China Sea:

Assessment and Recommendations

Chair: Nguyen Manh Hung, George Mason University, USA

Panelists:

1. Institutional Paradigms to Prevent Inadvertent Armed Conflicts in the East

Sea

Hitoshi Nasu, College of Law, The Australian National University, Australia

2. Steps to Mitigate Fishing Conflict in the Disputed East Sea

Murray Hiebert, Center for Strategic and International Studies

3. Achievements and Challenges in Dispute Settlement and Management in the

South China Sea

Ramses Amer, Institute for Security and Development Policy, Sweden

4. An Early Harvest Package for the Code of Conduct in the South China

Sea

Carlyle A. Thayer, Australian Defence Force Academy, The University of

New South Wales, Australia

3:00 - 3:15 PM Closing Remarks

3:15 6:00 PM Ho Chi Minh City Tour