Critical Factors for Sustainable Peace and Development discussed by ACUNS Panel (18/06/2016)
Japanese scholars, Shoji, Fujishige and Miura as well as Bemnet Debebe examined various aspects of peace operations and global governance.
5. 会員活動報告
Einstein: “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” (02/06/2016)
Hasegawa: “We cannot achieve our goal of integrating Japan with the World unless we are ready to integrate ourselves with the peoples of the World Community.” Please click here for details. (Photo: quotesvil.com)
UN Chronicle: Post-Conflict Leadership – Key to Sustainable Peace and Development (April 2016)
In April 2016 issue of the UN Chronicle Magazine, former SRSG Hasegawa asserts, the critical task for national leaders is to secure political stability and national unity by influencing the thought and behavior of opponents.
Hasegawa calls for moving out of the Hobbesian world and establishing the new world order anchored in global governance (01/05/2016)
At Y7 Summit at Waseda University, youth delegates from G7 countries discussed, inter alia, how international security could be maintained.
Professor Kyu-dok Hong opens First East Asian Forum on UN Peace Operations in Seoul (22-23/04/2016)
Experts from Japan, China, Mongolia and Republic of Korea met and shared Lessons Learned from UNMISS operations and explored ways ahead.
Japan should adopt its own idea and invite educated and motivated Syrian people for study and professional work (02/04/2016)
In the 2 April 2016 issue of Asahi Shimbun, Professor Hasegawa suggested that a paradigm shift for Japan to adopt a new way to solve a new problem. Please click here for full text in English.
Asian experts meet in Shanghai to deliver on three UN reviews carried out on peace operations in 2015 (23/03/2016)
President of UN General Assembly Mogens LYKETOFT asks for Asian perspectives from China, Cambodia, India, Japan and the Republic of Korea. Please click here for the program and participants of the regional consultation meeting.
Dr. Higashi insists on legitimacy and inclusion on peace-building at Yale and International Peace Institute in New York (21/03/2016)
In his lecture at Yale University and in an interview with the International Peace Institute, Professor Daisaku Higashi elaborated on his views on peacebuilding. For his IPI interview article, please access here.
Hasegawa: New approach needed for addressing the new problem not envisioned before. (24/02/2016)
Professor Hasegawa called upon Japan to continue pursuing “a honored place” in the international community pledged at the time of Japan`s entry to the United Nations in 1956. Please click here for TV program recording.