International Transdisciplinary Roundtable: Collaboration and Co-learning for Multilayered Disaster Management

Time

5:15-6:45 PM (JST)

8:15-9:45 AM (UTC)

9:15-10:45AM (CET- Madrid/Bilbao)

About

The Global Community Resilience Center (GCRC), a nonprofit organization, launched at Kyoto University, advances research, education and practice on resilience by integrating academic scholarship with societal knowledge, with a particular focus on disaster risk, community resilience, and sustainable society in complex and uncertain environments.

Grounded in transdisciplinary principles, GCRC operates at the interface of academia, policy, and civil society. Through international dialogues, participatory research, and comparative learning, the Center fosters collaborative knowledge creation that supports evidence-informed policy-making and locally grounded action.

This international roundtable brings together researchers and practitioners to explore how collaboration and co-learning across multiple layers-community, local, and international-can strengthen disaster management and resilience in diverse contexts.

Program

Session 1 (40 minutes)

Key Presentation: Collaborative Governance and Disaster Management in Tourism Communities

Speaker: Dr. Giuseppe Aliperti(*), Associate Professor at the University of Deusto (Bilbao, Spain), Faculty of Social and Human Sciences. Followed by Q&A and dialogue

Session 2 (40 minutes)

Open Dialogue among Participants: Co-learning for Disaster Management through Collaboration

Who should attend

This roundtable is open to participants who are interested in transdisciplinary and dialogue-oriented approaches to disaster management and resilience.

In particular, it welcomes:

• Researchers and graduate students working on disaster risk reduction, resilience, governance, tourism studies, or related fields
• Practitioners and policy actors engaged in disaster management, community resilience, or local governance
• Members of civil society organizations involved in community-based or participatory approaches
• Individuals interested in collaborative governance and co-learning across disciplines, sectors, and scales
• Participants are expected to join not only as listeners, but as active contributors to a shared learning process through dialogue and reflection.

This roundtable is designed as a space for exploratory and respectful exchange rather than a conventional lecture-style event.

* Giuseppe Aliperti has extensive international experience in the tourism industry. He has been a visiting researcher at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan), the United Nations University (Bonn, Germany), and Wakayama University (Wakayama, Japan). His research primarily focuses on tourism, collaborative governance, and risk communication and management in crisis and disaster contexts. After earning his PhD in Change and Complexity Management from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Italy), he worked as a researcher at Kyoto University under the JSPS Short- and Standard-term programs. He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Deusto and holds a Sexenio for high-quality research.