Members publications
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.
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.
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.
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.
Primordial Leadership Book Launched at UN Headquarters in Geneva (17/01/2014)
On 17 January 2014, a book launch was organized at the Palais des Nations in Geneva to mark the publication of Professor Hasegawa’s book, « Primordial Leadership – Peacebuilding and National Ownership in Timor-Leste ». The book launch convened a wide audience from various parts of the UN system and diplomats from Missions to the UN from the region. (Hillel Loew)