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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 Komatsupresented a paper entitled “Exchange Students between Japan and the United States” while Kazuhisa Nishihara of IFSSO-Japan read a paper on “Foreign Residents and the Great East Japan Earthquake.”

IFSSO President Teruyuki Komatsu delivered the OpeningRemarks. He shared his thoughts on Japan’s recent experienceconcerning the Fukushima tsunami and nuclear disaster and relatedthis with the conference theme on Human Security. On theother hand, Dr. Michael Kuhn, President of the World SocialSciences and Humanities Network (World SSH Net), gave theKeynote Address entitled “Beyond the Reflexive Borders of theWestern World’s Social Science System.” In his speech, Dr. Kuhnchallenged the hegemonic role of Western social sciences andcalled for a more multi-versalist social sciences.

Five papers were selected as the best conference papersand their authors were awarded the SMI-IFSSO Prize forthe Social Sciences. The recipients of the Prize were ChesterCabalza (“Deconstructing Human Security in the Philippines),Ludovic Kibora (“Vulnerability of Peri-Urban Populations

Dr. Nestor Castro Elected as New IFSSO President

Biggest IFSSO Conference Held in the Philippines

IFSSO Accepts New Members

IFSSO Co-Sponsors International Conference in Japan

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to Natural Disasters: The Case of Floods in the City ofOuagadougou”), Geraldo Petilla (“Reversing the Impact ofInternal Human Capital Migration in Philippine Countrysidethrough Indigenous Volunteerism: A Human SecurityParadigm), Mari Shiba (“Changing the Objective Positionsto Subjective Ones in Cultural Transformation: A Case Studyon Inter-country Child Adoptions in Portland, Oregon, USAand Stockholm, Sweden”), and Natividad Sugguiyao, JaniceShiu, and May Buslig (“The Exercise of Priority Rights andits Impact to Human Security of the iBalatok, Kalinga’). Eachof the awardees received an award certificate and a cashprize courtesy of Sagittarius Mines, Inc. (SMI).

The next IFSSO General Conference will be held in 2013.New Delhi, India and Istanbul, Turkey are being consideredas possible venues of the next conference.

• 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 theIndonesian 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.

The organizations that had been accepted as AssociateMembers are the Anthropological Studies, Inc. (Anthropos),the Association of Social Science Educators, Researchers, andTrainers, Inc. (ASSERT), and the College of Social Sciencesand Philosophy of the University of the Philippines (CSSP-UP), all from the Philippines, and the Risale-i Nur Instituteof Turkey.

Those who were accepted as individual members are AdjiKrisbandono, 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, MahmorEdding, Maria Cristina Ferrer, Marlyn Cacatian, Mary JoyYamson, Nilda Babaran, Pedro Cabrales, Retno Sinarwati,Rex Makinano, Ronaldo Frufonga, Rowena Isidro, SalvadorQuitos, Samuel Marfo, Teodora Luz Mangahas, and ZenaidaLucas.

Membership to IFSSO is still open to all social scienceorganizations and institutions as well as to individual socialscientists and researchers. The IFSSO membership form maybe downloaded from the IFSSO website at www.ifsso.netand submitted to the IFSSO Secretariat.

The General Assembly elected the following membersof 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 December2011 until November 2013.

Dr. Castro was previously IFSSO Secretary General. Heis also the Chair for Anthropology and Linguistics of theNational Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP) andChair of the Department of Anthropology of the Universityof the Philippines. Meanwhile, Former IFSSO PresidentTeruyuki Komatsu has been elevated as a member of theIFSSO Advisory Council.