On March 20, 2026, Cotler Fellow Hanmin Oh represented the Irwin Cotler Institute at the 2026 International Counter-Terrorism Conference, held at KINTEX First Exhibition Hall in Ilsan, South Korea. Organized by the Korean Association for Terrorism Studies and hosted by the Counter-Terrorism Security Research Institute, the conference brought together experts from six countries, including South Korea, Israel, Germany, Mongolia, Hong Kong, and Singapore, to examine emerging security threats and to chart the direction of counterterrorism strategy over the coming decade. Prof. Uriya Shavit, the Head of the Institute, and Dr. Carl Yonker, the Institute’s Academic Director, had originally been scheduled to deliver lectures on legal and strategic frameworks for confronting extremism and on foreign influence operations and cognitive threats against democratic societies. However, due to the war with Iran and the deteriorating security situation in Israel, neither was able to travel to Korea.

In Seoul, Mr. Oh represented the Institute and the Cotler Fellows program, introducing the Institute, its work, and the Fellowship program. He also spoke briefly on the global resurgence of antisemitism, emphasizing that contemporary antisemitism is not merely a Jewish concern but a barometer of the health of democracy itself, and that cultivating awareness of how antisemitism operates and spreads is an essential element of any democratic society’s defense against extremism and the erosion of liberal norms.