My Image

Asian Journal of Peacebuilding Special Issue: Transforming Violence into Peace through Education

A special issue of the Asian Journal of Peacebuilding that I co-edited with Soonjung Kwon is now available both in print, and online. The journal is published by the Institute of Peace and Unification Studies of Seoul National University. Here is the table of contents:As you can see, there are many articles about the practice of peace education in many different regions of the world, where educators are facing a diversity of challenges to teaching peace in both a global, and especially in a

Read More

Ágota Duró on (belated) Medical Assistance for Korean Atomic Bomb Survivors by Japanese Doctors and Civil Society

A new research article has been published by Dr. Ágota Duró at the Asia-Pacific Journal (JapanFocus). Duró recently recieved her PhD from Hiroshima City University in Peace Studies, and (full disclosure) I was her doctoral supervisor. This article is drawn from her dissertation which focused on Japanese civil society support for the rights and welfare of Korean hibakusha. There were tens of thousands of Koreans who experienced the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasakai, and it is only in

Read More

Global Hibakusha on Twitter