B3 Attila Nasir
Hello. I am Attila, a member of Fujii’s seminar. On November 14 and 15, 2020, I had an opportunity to make a presentation at the Japan Association of Global Governance. Ms. Sakakibara and I, a member of Fujii’s seminar, made a presentation at a poster session, and finally won the Encouragement Prize. From now on, let me write it up through this essay.
First, I am going to introduce our poster and our preparation process. Our poster title is How Does an International Norm “Putting an End to Culture of Impunity” Work？：The Case Study of the ICC’s Intervention in the Rohingya Crisis. We conducted our research is comparing the situation of Myanmar to the case of the ICC intervention in the 2007-2008 Kenyan post-election violence. For that, we read academic papers, journals, books about the theoretical framework of Global Governance and the ICC, Kenya, Myanmar as many as possible. Since the congress was postponed from May to November due to the influence of COVID-19, we were able to prepare for it enough. The difficulty I faced during the preparation was losing track of the nature of the problem. The more I gained knowledge, the more I got confused. Also, it came to be challenging to choose and adopt information into the poster. However, through the discussion and trial and error, our poster got more sophisticated and I was able to be more confident about our research.
Second, I will describe my experience on the day of the conference. This year, the conference style was different from last year because of the influence of COVID-19. The academic conference was held via Zoom, and before the day of the academic conference, we sent a presentation video. On the day of the conference, we were asked tough questions about our research by judges. I was able to have meaningful discussions with the judges and members of the society who gave me opinions and questions from various perspectives. I think we did our best to answer them. I believe that the discussion was a precious experience that helped me develop my research and career.
Lastly, I would like to show my appreciation for Prof. Fujii, seminar members, as well as UIPJ members. Thanks to seminar members’ and UIPJ members’ questions and comments on our posters in advance, we were able to fully respond to the Q and A session on the day of the conference. Especially, Prof. Fujii gave us a special opportunity to participate in the conference, and he was very generous in guiding us through everything. Our winning the encouragement prize is very fine owing to the great advice from him. I would like to continue researching the case of Myanmar and use this incredible experience in my career.
