Challenges and Implications for Conflict Mitigation and/or Dispute Resolution
Session 6 of the conference on "The South China Sea in the Broader Maritime Security of the Indo-Pacific Conference", 28-30 September 2016, Canberra, Australia. This conference is co-organized by UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA), the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV), and the Japan Institute for International Affairs (JIIA).

Chair: Professor Toni Erskine, Director of Research, UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
Speaker 1: Emeritus Professor Carlyle Thayer, UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
Topic: The Southeast Asian claimant states and ASEAN.
Speaker 2: Professor You Ji, Department of Government at the University of Macau, China; and Honorary Reader, School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales.
Topic: China.
Speaker 3: Dr Kei Koga, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Topic: The Great Powers (Japan, the U.S. and India).
Speaker 4: Professor Andrew O’Neil, Dean (Research), Griffith University.
Topic: The Middle Powers.
Discussant and Q&A: Tetsuo Kotani, Senior Fellow, Japan Institute of International Affairs.