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.
5. Publications & Activities
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.
IOM Chief Swing explains the implication of massive population move into the European Union (24/02/2016)
Director-General William Swing of the International Organization for Migration calls for more humanitarian compassion in responding to the crisis situation.
Library Talk: Japan’s Development Assistance – Foreign Aid and the Post-2015 Agenda (29/01/2016)
JICA Vice President Hiroshi Kato asserted that Japan maintained its “consistent” characteristics of its bilateral aid, with its emphasis on socioeconomic infrastructure and human resource developments aimed at poverty reduction, despite of repeated changes in the ODA Charter in 1992, 2003 and 2015.
Hasegawa calls for change in the mind-set of the leaders and people for the task of nation building (25/01/2016)
At a panel discussion held in Oslo on transitional justice experience of Timor-Leste, former SRSG Hasegawa acknowledged successful peacebuilding of Timor-Leste and then pointed out the need for national leaders and people to change yet again their mind-set and mentality for nation building as its requirement differs from peacebuilding.
HPC Primary Course starts with participants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Iraq, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines and Uganda as well as Japan (21/01/2016)
Professor Hasegawa explained to the HPC program associates the purpose of UN peacebuilding and how UN integrated missions work on the ground to build sustainable peace and development.
Seven day mid-career course held from 9 to 15 January at the Yoyogi Olympic Memorial Center (15/01/2016)
Twenty seven UN staff and professionals from Japan and five other countries engaged in peace, humanitarian and development assistance enhanced their communication and leadership competencies in multidisciplinary peace operations.