Board of Directors (2022.04.01-2023.03.31.)


President
日本国際平和構築協会
理事長
(since 2013 -)
Sukehiro HASEGAWASukehiro HASEGAWA
長谷川 祐弘


 Distinguished Professor, Kyoto University of the Arts. Former Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Timor-Leste (2004-2006). He spent 37 years with the UN and served as UN Resident Coordinator in the South Pacific (1985-86), Rwanda (1995-96), and Timor-Leste (2002-2006). Deputy Executive Coordinator of the UN Volunteers in Geneva (1987-93), Manager of the UNV Electoral Officers in Cambodia (1993), and Director of Policy and Planning, UNOSOM II (1994). Deputy Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Pacific at UNDP New York (1096-99). Currently President, Global Peacebuilding Association of Japan (GPAJ), Director, ACUNS Tokyo Liaison Office, Director of the Kyoto Peacebuilding Center, and Executive Director for Academic Exchange, UN Association of Japan. BA from the University of Michigan, MA from the ICU in Tokyo, and Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, USA. Professor, Hosei University (2007-15), Visiting Professor, UN University (2007-15).

Vice-President
日本国際平和構築協会
副理事長
(since 2020 -)
Ken INOUEKen INOUE
井上 健



 Have been working for more than 40 years in the field of international cooperation including development cooperation, humanitarian assistance and peacebuilding. Specialized in UN Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Operations and democratic governance. At present, Representative of Institute of Personal Governance (2021-) and Member of Advisory Board of UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) on Peace Operations. Served as Senior Advisor on Democratic Governance, JICA (2015-2020), Chief Governance Advisor, UN PKO mission in Timor-Leste (2007-2012), Director, Asian Productivity Organization (2001-2006), Municipal Administrator, UN PKO mission in Kosovo (1999-2001), Programme and Trust Fund Manager, UN Volunteers (1994-1999), Regional Humanitarian Affairs Officer, UN PKO mission in Somalia (1994), Deputy Provincial Director, UN PKO mission in Cambodia (1991-1993), and Programme Office, Office of the UN-SRSG for Coordination of Cambodia Humanitarian Assistance Programme. Also worked with UNDP and World Bank. Teaching at Toyo University, Dokkyo University, Kyoto Women’s University, Oberlin University, Soka University, Japan-Vietnam University, etc.

Vice-President
日本国際平和構築協会
副理事長
(since 2020 -)
Naoko KUMAGAINaoko KUMAGAI
熊谷 奈緒子



 Naoko Kumagai is professor at the Department of Global Studies and Collaboration, Aoyama Gakuin University. She earned a Ph.D. in political science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her fields of expertise include international relations theory, humanitarianism, and peace and conflict studies. She has been working on the issues of postwar compensation, reconciliation, and disarmament.
 Among her publications include Kenshō Abe Seiken-Hoshu to Realism no Seiji (Investigation of the Second Abe Administration: Politics of Realism and Conservatism) (co-authored, Tokyo: Bunshun Shinsho, 2022); Atarashii Chiseigaku (New Geopolitics) (co-authored, Tokyo: Toyo Keizai, 2020); Nichibei Domei to Tōnan Ajia: Dentōteki Anzenhoshō wo Koete (The Japan-U.S. Alliance in Southeast Asia: Beyond the Traditional Security Framework) (co-authored, Tokyo: Chikuma Shobō, 2017); and The Issue of Comfort Women (Tokyo: I-House Press, 2016). Since January 2021, she has been Director of Japan Chair at the University for Peace (Universidad para la Paz in Costa Rica)

Director
日本国際平和構築協会
理 事
(since 2020 -)
Fujiko AMANOFujiko AMANO
天野 富士子


 Fujiko Amano currently serves as Head of Research and Policy Analysis Cluster at ASEAN-Japan Centre. She is a New York licensed lawyer. She was a FY2009 Program Associate for the Global Peacebuilders Program. She previously served as a UNV Legal Officer at UNODC Regional Office for Central Asia (2010 – 2011) and Senior Deputy Director for Free Trade Agreement and Economic Partnership Agreement Negotiations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (2011-2014). She has more than 20 years of legal experience including international law firms and the legal department at multinational companies (last as Director and Managing Counsel). Her academic trainings include: Oxford University, BA in Jurisprudence (2000); London School of Economics, Msc in Government (1995) and Bryn Mawr College, BA in Political Science (1994)

Director
日本国際平和構築協会
理 事
(since 2020 -)
Koji SAKANEKoji SAKANE
坂根 宏治


 Mr. Koji SAKANE is Chief Representative of Sudan Office at Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) since February 2021. For more than 30 years, he works in the fields of development and peacebuilding at JICA. His previous posts include Senior Director of Peacebuilding Office (2017-2021), Deputy Chief Secretary at President Office (2014-2017), Director for Planning and ASEAN Coordination (2011-1014) and Director for Cambodia (2010-2011). He worked at Indonesia (2006-2010) and Cambodia (1994-1996), and served at Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations (2001-2003). Obtained Master degree on Conflict Resolution at Bradford University, and Bachelor degree on Political Science at Waseda University. Member of Japan Society of International Development.
 Recent papers and seminars: ‘”Era of Coups” in Africa” (International Information Network Analysis (IINA), Sasakawa Peace Foundation, March 2022), “Global conflict risks surged by COVID-19 pandemic and Japan’s roles” (“World Peace Research”, Institute for Peace Policies, Winter 2022), “Crisis in Ethiopia and Sudan” (IINA, January 2022), “Sudan’s Democratic Process under threat” (“Gaiko” Toshi-shuppan, 2021 November/December), “Tigray Conflict in Ethiopia and Eritrea’s Intervention” (IINA, August 2021), “Emerging Democratic State Sudan” (IINA, August 2021), “Changing Nature of Conflict in Africa triggered by the death of Chadian President” (IINA, May 2021), “Seminar “Democratic Crisis in Sudan” (GPAJ, February 2022), Seminar “Climate Change and Human Security in Asia” (2nd International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding, February 2022), Webinar “ICT X Peacebuilding X Social Investment” (Kobe Institute of Computing/Graduate School of Information Technology, June 2021).

Director
日本国際平和構築協会
理 事
(since 2018 -)
Takaaki MIZUNO

Takaaki MIZUNO
水野 孝昭



 Takaaki Mizuno is professor of Kanda University of International Studies(IR and journalism). He joined the daily Asahi Shimbun, and covered the Gulf War in 1991. After based in Hanoi to cover the Cambodian peace process,he was its diplomatic correspondent in Washington D.C. After sabbatical as a visiting scholar at the East-West Center in Honolulu, and at the Chinese Institute of Contemporary International Relations in Beijing, he was New York bureau chief to cover the UNHQ before becoming a member of the editorial board of the paper in 2007. He graduated from the University of Tokyo, and M.A. from the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Relations of Johns Hopkins University.

Director
日本国際平和構築協会
理 事
(since 2022 -)
Tadamichi YAMAMOTOTadamichi YAMAMOTO
山本 忠通



 He is the former UNSRSG for Afghanistan(2016-20). Before moving to the UN in 2014, he served in the Japanese Diplomatic Service for forty years.
He was the Permanent Delegate of Japan to UNESCO (2008-10), the Ambassador in charge of assistance to Afghanistan and Pakistan (2010-12; organized the Ministerial Conference 2012). He was the Ambassador to Hungary(2012-14)
 He served at the Embassies of Japan in the United Kingdom, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea (Minister for Political Affairs) and the United States of America (Deputy Chief of Mission), and as the Consul General in Boston. In earlier years, he was a chief negotiator for the trade in services in the Uruguay Round (GATT). He was in charge of the peace process in Cambodia. He served as Director-General of the Public Diplomacy Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
 He graduated from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (BSc) and from the University of Oxford, UK (BA).

Director
日本国際平和構築協会
理 事
(since 2020 -)
Elizabeth GAMARRAElizabeth GAMARRA
エリザベス ガマラ


 Elizabeth Gamarra is a former TEDx Speaker, Fulbrighter at IE University and World Peace Fellow at International Christian University. She is currently a MEXT PhD candidate researching human security, securitization and migration. She has a double Masters in the field of Mental Health (U.S) and Peace and Conflict Studies (Japan). She is also the founder of GOL, an initiative focused on minority empowerment and is co-founder of the RadioNatura podcast focused on environmental issues.

Director
日本国際平和構築協会
理 事
(since 2018 -)
Masakuni TANIMOTOMasakuni TANIMOTO
谷本 真邦


 Masakuni Tanimoto is Executive Director of World Federalist Movement of Japan as well as a Secretariat of Japanese Parliamentary Committee for the World federation. He has obtained a degree (Social Sciences) from National Institution for Academic Degrees after learning at multiple universities. Launching a business when he was a university student, he stays in the current post after serving as a president of a consolidated subsidiary of a major public relations agency and the like. Through his career building, he has been involved in enlightenment activities for disseminating UN philosophy, organization of meetings regarding UN reform and policy proposal to the Japanese government.

Director
日本国際平和構築協会
理 事
(since 2022 -)
Arbenita SOPAJArbenita SOPAJ
アルベニータ ソパージ


 Arbenita Sopaj is a Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies (GSICS), Kobe University. She obtained a dual BA and MA degree in International Relations and American Studies from College ISPE and Dardania College, Kosovo in 2017. She is currently an External Liaison Officer at Global Peacebuilding Association Japan (GPAJ), Kyoto Peacebuilding Centre (KPC), and the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), Tokyo. She also is a lecturer and coordinator of the International Relations Office at Dardania College and a researcher at the Research Institute for Indo-Pacific Affairs (RIIPA).

Director
日本国際平和構築協会
理 事
(since 2022 -)
Kazuhide KURODA

Kazuhide KURODA
黒田 和秀


 Development consultant/part-time lecturer. Previously, worked for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and for the World Bank’s Fragile States/Conflict Prevention/Post Conflict Unit providing humanitarian and development assistance in conflict and disaster—affected countries. During the UN years, worked on strengthening UN’s architecture on the humanitarian agenda and, while at the World Bank, engaged in its new and comprehensive approach to fragile countries focusing research, formulating policy, establishing new financing arrangements and applying conflict lens to project design. Also, involved in UN-WB partnership. Was humanitarian affairs officer covering Rwanda from 1993-1995 and experienced UN’s limitation.

Director
日本国際平和構築協会
理 事
(since 2020 -)
Motoo NOGUCHIMotoo NOGUCHI
野口 元郎


 Attorney (Special Counsel) at IWATAGODO. Former Ambassador for International Judicial Cooperation (2018-20); Prosecutor, Supreme Public Prosecutors Office (2014-20); Chair of Board of Directors, Trust Fund for Victims, International Criminal Court (The Hague, 2012-18); UN International Judge, Cambodia Khmer Rouge Trials (Phnom Penh, 2006-12); Counsel, Office of General Counsel, Asian Development Bank (Manila, 2000-04). Born in 1961 in Tokyo. 1983 LLB, The University of Tokyo. Prosecutor, Ministry of Justice (1985-2020). Visiting Scholar, University of Washington Law School (1992-93); Fellow, Schell Center for International Human Rights, Yale Law School (2006-07); Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (2009-16).

Director
日本国際平和構築協会
理 事
(since 2022 -)
Daiki INOUEDaiki INOUE
井上 大樹


 Daiki Inoue is currently a Master candidate in International Affairs at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva, specializing in global security and power and conflict. He earned a Bachelor degree in Liberal Arts at Hosei University in Tokyo in 2021. Initially joined as an intern, he has been a member of the Global Peacebuilding Association of Japan since July 2020 and served as a Director in Charge of the Office of Secretary since March 2022.

Director
日本国際平和構築協会
理 事
(since 2022 -)
Akio NAKAYAMAAkio NAKAYAMA
中山 暁雄


 Mr. Nakayama obtained the degree of Master of Arts in International Relations at Australian National University(ANU). He started his international civil service at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in 1996. He was first assigned to the IOM country office in the Philippines as JPO. His assignments in IOM included humanitarian assistance and peace-building activities in former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and most recently in Myanmar. In particular, he led initiatives to adress crisis-driven human mobility, including human trafficking, in conflict-affected areas in Myanmar. He also served as IOM’s Country Director in Japan from 2005 to 2010. During this assignment, he assisted response to migration challenges Japan faced including the preparation of a pilot refugee resettlement project for Myanmar refugees. He was assigned to IOM Geneva as Senior Regional Adviser for Asia in 2010, and IOM Myanmar as Country Director in 2017. He retired from IOM in 2021.


Auditor
日本国際平和構築協会
監 事
(since 2018 -)
Setsuko YamazakiSetsuko YAMAZAKI
山崎 節子


 Setsuko Yamazaki has over three decades of development and management experience in the UN. Her prior career has included finance and budget, strategic planning and risk management, policy advice and program management, and transformation strategy, ensuring results-based management, transparency, and accountability. She held leadership and management positions in UNDP Offices in Cambodia, Vietnam, Lao PDR and China. At the UN Volunteers Programme HQ in Bonn, she promoted volunteer programmes as Chief, Asia/Pacific/Europe/CIS Region. She started her career at the Bureau for Finance & Administration, UNDP HQ in New York, following an assignment in the Philippines. She joined the UN with prior experience in international banking. Until 2020, she worked as a specially-appointed professor at the Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability, Kyoto University. Currently she is a member of the Audit and Oversight Committee, World Meteorological Organization (WMO).


Auditor
日本国際平和構築協会
監 事
(since 2020 -)
Keiichi TANABEKeiichi TANABE
田辺 圭一


 After working for KPMG Corporate Finance as Chief Consultant, joined United Nations World Food Program (WFP). In WFP Myanmar Office, assigned as Indian Ocean Tsunami Emergency Operations Coordinator and Reporting Officer and as Head of Sub-Office in Southern Shan State. Then, moved to Rome Headquarters as Donor Relations Officer. Thereafter, joined United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) as Development Coordination Officer, and United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) as Civil Affairs Officer. Currently, Associate Professor at the Department of International Studies, School of Global Studies, Tokai University. Obtained Bachelor of Political Science from Waseda University in Japan, and Master of International Affairs from Columbia University in the United States. Also has a professional qualification of U.S. Certified Public Accountant.