In recent years, globalisation has fostered ever more frequent and intimate interactions between states and societies in the Asia-Pacific region. Unfortunately, this has also increased the potential for disputes, particularly regarding international trade and human rights. The Asia-Pacific Dispute Resolution Program, which is run jointly by the Institute of Asian Research and the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia, seeks to better understand, explain and predict when such disputes will arise, combining stateof- the-art approaches from law, political science, communications, sociology, international relations, economics and business. To manage-and ideally preventsuch disputes, the world is in urgent need of resolution approaches that meet the needs and expectations of the different cultures involved. The objective of the Program is to propose innovative interdisciplinary approaches to dispute resolution that international communities of scholars and policymakers can use to promote intercultural communication and reconciliation.

This article provides an analyses the implications of China’s constitutionally proclaimed notion of “Community of Shared Future for Mankind” (CSFM), which reveals the stance of the PRC party in promoting so-called “Chinese wisdom” and a “Chinese solution” to address common issues in global governance and in pursuing China’s global leadership in President Xi Jinping’s “New Era.” The author explores the possibility for China and the West of reaching a normative consensus in terms of standards set by the CSFM vision and human security in light of the current global pandemic. The author advocates pursuing a pragmatic, problem-solving approach to international engagement with China without advancing a particular political agenda based on broad ideological presumptions, namely by encouraging and facilitating China’s further participation in international institutions and treaties. This approach may establish an increasing convergence and resonance of local and nonlocal norms to reach a normative consensus and, ultimately, to influence treaty performance incrementally and gradually.

E-commerce has been rapidly growing in China which has quickly become the largest e-commerce market in the world. However, this has also led to an increasing number of e-commerce disputes. In practice, such disputes are resolved by online dispute resolution. As the results of online dispute resolution are not legally binding, however, China’s online arbitration procedure has been criticized especially regarding the conflicts between party autonomy and institutional autonomy. China’s judicial reviews would claim that such awards cannot be enforced. Therefore, there is a call to make online arbitral awards enforceable and to expand the application of online arbitration to more e-commerce disputes in China. This paper examines how to best analyse and address such conflicts. We explain the importance of arbitral institutions’ autonomy in terms of ensuring access to justice as well as the importance of limiting party autonomy in certain circumstances due to the rise in online disputes.

본 연구에서는 시각장애인이 시각 외의 잔존감각인 촉각, 청각, 후각을 활용하여 미술 작품을 감상하고 이해할 수 있도록 도울 수 있는 다중감각 인터랙션 기술을 제안한다. 나아가, 다중감각 인터랙션의 설계 적합성을 평가하기 위해 실제 시각장애인을 대상으로 다중감각 인터랙션 기술이 적용된 시스템을 통해 미술 작품을 감상한 경험에 대한 질적 인터뷰 기반의 사용자 테스트를 수행하였다. 사용자 테스트 결과, 미술 작품에 적용한 다중감각 인터랙션 요소 들은 전반적으로 시각장애인으로 하여금 미술 작품 감상 및 이해를 도왔으며, 나아가 다중감각 인터랙션을 통해 미술 작품을 감상한 경험이 만족스러웠다는 긍정적인 평가 결과가 나타났다. 반면, 일부 다중감각 인터랙션 요소는 미술 작품을 감상하는 동안 전혀 인지하지 못하였거나 오히려 미술 작품 감상에 있어서 혼란을 야기했다는 부정적인 평가 결과도 나타났다. 본 연구는 시각장애인의 문화예술 작품 감상의 접근성을 증진할 수 있는 기술적 대안으로서 비시각 다중감각 인터랙션의 구체적인 개발 방향성 및 가이드라인을 제공하는 데 기여하였다. 나아가, 시각장애인뿐 만 아니라 아동이나 노인과 같은 비시각장애인도 유니버설 인터랙션 기술을 통해 기존의 시각 위주의 단편적 경험을 넘어선 종합적인 감각적 경험을 할 수 있는 기술 기반을 구축하는데 기여할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

International arbitration, as a neutral, flexible, efficient and binding legal means of dispute resolution, has been effective in settling maritime delimitation disputes, especially in recent years since the UNCLOS came into force. There are a number of reasons (i.e. advantages) for its increased popularity. Reasonable expectations thus arise as to its applicability onto similar maritime delimitation disputes of the East Asian countries whose diplomatic efforts have mostly failed to address these matters. This article examines this practical issue primarily from the legal perspective by reviewing relevant international rules including the UNCLOS provisions on compulsory dispute resolution and cases such as the ongoing Philippines-China arbitration over the South China Sea. Observations are also made from the political and cultural perspectives as well. It concludes that, though multiple dispute settlement means are still encouraged, international arbitration could be an important alternative for East Asian countries seeking a peaceful solution to their maritime delimitation disputes.