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What is the "Peace" in the 21st century world?
- Lecture series collaborate with Hiroshima and Nagasaki cities -
- Theme College on Peace Studies at Waseda sends to the world -

The 21st century started from heart-breaking news, such as war, violence, and ethnic collisions, such as 9-11 terrorism, Cosovo conflict, Afgan and Iraq wars, wars in Congo, starvation in African inland countries and N.Korea etc.
What is the "Peace" for us?
How do we maintain the "Peace"?
By what means, we can build "Peace"?
In order to answer these questions, professors from various schools in Waseda University gather and analyse, interdisciplinarily and synthetically, the problem of "Peace" from the viewpoint of politics, international relations, law, environmental science, biology, communication, culture, etc.
The lecture series is collaborated with Hiroshima and Nagasaki cities. We invite mayor Akiba from Hiroshima city, atomic bomb victims("hibakusha"), dipromat, specialists in different disciplines, overseas and domestic NGO workers, and peace activitist as guest-speaker, The auditors in this ad-hoc college on peace studies are also invited to go for internship in Hiroshima city in the summer time and to assist to students’ peace forum organized in Nagasaki city on August 10.

Program

Date and Time : every Saturday, from 10:40 to 12:10
Room : 15-101

Part 1 : What is the "Peace" in the 21st century world? -Invitation to Peace Studies
19-Apr [Opening Remarks]
"What is the Peace Studies?"
Prof. TAGA, Hidetoshi (School of Social Sciences)
"U.S. War against Iraq"
Prof. NISHIKAWA, Jun (School of Political Science and Economics)
26-Apr How will Peace be considered in the 21st century? -From the viewpoint of legal studies-
Prof. MIZUSHIMA, Asaho (School of Law)
10-May Gender and Peace
Prof. KATSUKATA, Inahuku Keiko (School of Law)
17-May Peace and Conflicts in Biological Studies
Prof. HASEGAWA, Mariko (School of Political Science and Economics)
24-May (No Class)
31-May Communication and Peace
Prof. YAMASAKI, Yoshio(Graduate School of Information and Telecommunication Studies)
7-Jun Culture of Peace
Prof. TAKAHASHI, Seori (School of Political Science and Economics)
Part 2 : How do we Inherit the Experiences of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Okinawa?
14-Jun The World Peace Design based on Hiroshima Experience
Guest: Mayor AKIBA, Tadatoshi (Hiroshima City)
21-Jun Peace Appeal from Nagasaki
Guest: Mr. TASAKI, Noboru (ex. Director, Office of Peace Promotion, Nagasaki City)
28-Jun What is the Peace in Okinawa?
Guest: Prof. ARASAKI, Moriteru, President, Okinawa University
[Extracurricular Lecture]
Time: 13:30-15:00 Room 15-201
Commemorate Lecture of Chair-Professor: Toward Globalization of Peace
Prof. IRIE, Akira (Harvard University)
5-Jul Reflecting on the Peace from the Japan-U.S. relationship
Guest: Dr. HUKUI, Haruhiro, Executive Director, Hiroshima Peace Institute of the City University of Hiroshima.
[Submission of the mid-term report (about 1200 characters)]
12-Jul The role of NGOs toward Peace Building
Mr. KUMAOKA, Michiya (Japan International Volunteer Center)
19-Jul Comments on the mid-term report
Prof. NISHIKAWA, Jun and Prof. TAGA, Hidetoshi
26-Jul [Supplementary Lecture]
IT and Peace
Prof. KANO, Sadahiko (Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies)
Part 3 : The Latest Topics of Peace Studies
4-Oct About the Relation between Peace, Human rights and Sovereignty -Thinking Humanitarian intervention-
Prof. MIZUSHIMA, Asaho (School of Law)
11-Oct Peace Thought of Costa Rica
Ambassador SEQUEIRA, Ricardo
[Extracurricular Lecture]
13:00-14:30 Room 15-201
Movie "Guntai no nai Kuni"***
***This movie is about Costa Rica, which has abolished army.
Part 4 : Environment and Peace
18-Oct Attacks and Cooperations between the Same Spicies: Its evolution
Prof. HASEGAWA, Mariko (School of Political Science and Economics)
25-Oct The Inter-relationship between Different Species, and the Stability of the Ecosystem
Prof. HASEGAWA, Mariko (School of Political Science and Economics)
1-Nov Maintenance of Biodiversity and World-Peace
Prof. HASEGAWA, Mariko (School of Political Science and Economics)
Part 5 : Culture of Peace
8-Nov Far from Hollywood film-What is shown in the Iranian movies-
Prof. TAKAHASHI, Seori (School of Political Science and Economics)
15-Nov The Image Messages in a Photographer's work: TOMATSU, Shomei -"Records and Momories" in Nagasaki and Okinawa -
Prof. TAKAHASHI, Seori (School of Political Science and Economics)
22-Nov he Atomic Bomb: how it was figured?
Prof. TAKAHASHI, Seori (School of Political Science Economics)
Part 6 : The North-South Issues and Peace
29-Nov Diffusion of Educational System and Peace in Africa
Mr. SASAOKA, Yuichi (Japan International Cooperation Agency -JICA-)
6-Dec Widening of the North-South Gaps, and the Subjects in the Peace Reserch
Ms. KITAZAWA, Yoko (Peace Studies Association of Japan)
13-Dec The Origin of the Middle East Conflict -How should we see Palestine-Israeli conflicts?-
Dr. ITAGAKI, Yuzo (Emeritus professor, University of Tokyo)
Part 7 : Development of International Information Communication and Peace
20-Dec Technology Supporting Culture and its Diversity
Prof. YAMASAKI, Yoshio (Graduate School of Information and Telecommunication Studies)
[Submission of final report (about 2000 characters)]
10-Jan The Dialog of the Civilizations and Technology for the Strengthening of Peace
Prof. YAMASAKI, Yoshio (Graduate School of Information and Telecommunication Studies)
17-Jan Development of International Information and Communication and Peace
Prof. KANOH, Sadahiko (Graduate School of Information and Telecommunication Studies)
24-Jan Peace in the Bible -"What Breaks the Wall of a Partition"
Prof. KANOH, Sadahiko (Graduate School of Information and Telecommunication Studies)
Part 8 : Closing Session
31-Jan Comments on Students' reports
Prof. NISHIKAWA, Jun (School of Political Economics)
Prof. TAGA, Hidetoshi (School of Social Sciences)

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