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IFSSO President Teruyuki Komatsu delivered the Opening Remarks. He shared his thoughts on Japans recent experience concerning the Fukushima tsunami and nuclear disaster and related this with the conference theme on Human Security. On the other hand, Dr. Michael Kuhn, President of the World Social Sciences and Humanities Network (World SSH Net), gave the Keynote Address entitled Beyond the Reflexive Borders of the Western Worlds Social Science System. In his speech, Dr. Kuhn challenged the hegemonic role of Western social sciences and called for a more multi-versalist social sciences. Five papers were selected as the best conference papers and their authors were awarded the SMI-IFSSO Prize for the Social Sciences. The recipients of the Prize were Chester Cabalza (Deconstructing Human Security in the Philippines), Ludovic Kibora (Vulnerability of Peri-Urban Populations Dr. Nestor Castro Elected as New IFSSO President to Natural Disasters: The Case of Floods in the City of Ouagadougou), Geraldo Petilla (Reversing the Impact of Internal Human Capital Migration in Philippine Countryside through Indigenous Volunteerism: A Human Security Paradigm), Mari Shiba (Changing the Objective Positions to Subjective Ones in Cultural Transformation: A Case Study on Inter-country Child Adoptions in Portland, Oregon, USA and Stockholm, Sweden), and Natividad Sugguiyao, Janice Shiu, and May Buslig (The Exercise of Priority Rights and its Impact to Human Security of the iBalatok, Kalinga). Each of the awardees received an award certificate and a cash prize courtesy of Sagittarius Mines, Inc. (SMI). The next IFSSO General Conference will be held in 2013. New Delhi, India and Istanbul, Turkey are being considered as possible venues of the next conference.

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Budapest Business School (BBS); Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR); Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI); Lyceum of the Philippines University (LPU); National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT); National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP); Research and Development Center for Social, Economic and Environment (RDCSEE) of the Indonesian Ministry of Public Works, and Science Council of Japan (SCJ). The following associate member organizations also attended the General Assembly: Anthropological Studies, Inc. (Anthropos); Association of Social Science Educators, Researchers, and Trainers, Inc. (ASSERT); College of Social Sciences and Philosophy of the University of the Philippines (CSSP-UP); and Risale-i Nur Institute. IFSSO Accepts New Members

The General Assembly elected the following members of the IFSSO Executive Board: President - Nestor Castro, PhD (Philippines) 1st Vice President - Keokam Kraisarophong, PhD (Thailand) 2nd Vice President - I Ketut Ardhana, PhD (Indonesia) Secretary General - Yekti Maunati, PhD (Indonesia) Treasurer - Emre Serbetci (Turkey) Member - Leon Ramos, PhD (Philippines) Member - Ranjit Sinha, PhD (India) Member - Hidasi Judit, PhD (Hungary) Member - Ludovic Kibora, PhD (Burkina Faso) The term of the new Executive Board is from December 2011 until November 2013. Dr. Castro was previously IFSSO Secretary General. He is also the Chair for Anthropology and Linguistics of the National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP) and Chair of the Department of Anthropology of the University of the Philippines. Meanwhile, Former IFSSO President Teruyuki Komatsu has been elevated as a member of the IFSSO Advisory Council.

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The organizations that had been accepted as Associate Members are the Anthropological Studies, Inc. (Anthropos), the Association of Social Science Educators, Researchers, and Trainers, Inc. (ASSERT), and the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy of the University of the Philippines (CSSPUP), all from the Philippines, and the Risale-i Nur Institute of Turkey. Those who were accepted as individual members are Adji Krisbandono, Amor Bonus Sande, Daisy Alburo, Elvis Patulin, Eric Claudio, Evelyn Rabino, Francis Kayodo Ashipaoloye, Helen Vilbar, Hermawan Kusumartono, James Loreto Piscos, Jerwin Mahaguay, Joanne Rivera, Judith Garcia, Mahmor Edding, Maria Cristina Ferrer, Marlyn Cacatian, Mary Joy Yamson, Nilda Babaran, Pedro Cabrales, Retno Sinarwati, Rex Makinano, Ronaldo Frufonga, Rowena Isidro, Salvador Quitos, Samuel Marfo, Teodora Luz Mangahas, and Zenaida Lucas. Membership to IFSSO is still open to all social science organizations and institutions as well as to individual social scientists and researchers. The IFSSO membership form may be downloaded from the IFSSO website at www.ifsso.net and submitted to the IFSSO Secretariat.

IFSSO Co-Sponsors International Conference in Japan

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sponsor of the activity while IFSSO and the Japan Society for Multicultural Relations (JSMR) were co-sponsors. 29 papers on the conference theme were presented in the conference. Outgoing IFSSO President Teruyuki Komatsu presented a paper entitled Exchange Students between Japan and the United States while Kazuhisa Nishihara of IFSSOJapan read a paper on Foreign Residents and the Great East Japan Earthquake.
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