On June 30, 2019, the "International Forum on Disaster Resilience Cooperation Model 2019" hosted by IDMR was officially held. The conference aimed at the academic frontiers and major theoretical issues of post-disaster reconstruction and management disciplines, and aimed to call for the collaboration to explore the solutions of improving disaster resilience between universities and research institutes all over the world. Experts and scholars from the United States, Japan, Nepal, India, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Bangladesh and other countries and regions attended the event.
The meeting was co-chaired by Professor Gretchen Kalonji, Dean of IDMR, and Ms. Mandira Shrestha, representative of the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). After the meeting officially started, the experts and scholars at the meeting made a brief self-introduction one by one, and then Dean Gretchen Kalonji gave a wonderful speech on many aspects of international cooperation in disaster resilience, and then introduced the overall goal of cooperation and the school projects in detail. The participants showed great interesting, actively raising hands to ask questions. Then, Ms. Mandira presented the goal of the 3rd meeting of the Disaster Task Force of the Himalayan University Alliance, which was unanimously affirmed by everyone. The fourth item of the conference was analyzed and explained by Ms. Kanchan Shrestra, also analyzed and explained the "Koshi Basin Initiative". Since then, Professor Rajib Shaw, Chairman of the United Nations Disaster Risk Reduction Science and Technology Advisory Panel, has further expanded and deepened the content. Finally, the group photo was taken after Dean Gretchen Kalonji introduced the topics of difference sessions.
ICMOD Mandira Shrestha ICMOD Kanchan Shrestra
UN DRR Science and Technology Group Chair Rajib Shaw IDMR Dean Gretchen Kalonji
The opening ceremony of the "2019 Forum on Disaster Resilience International Cooperation Models" ended in praise, and also laid a good foundation for the successful launch of a series of academic conferences in the next few days, and promoted the theoretical and professional nature of IDMR's disaster disciplines. Furthermore, it has strengthened the international cooperation in the construction of cutting-edge disaster disciplines in the Himalaya-Hindu Kush region, which has profound academic value and exemplary significance.
