{"id":80,"date":"2017-05-15T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T01:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/?p=80"},"modified":"2017-05-29T10:13:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T01:13:44","slug":"professor-ai-kihara-hunt-of-the-university-of-tokyo-appointed-the-secretary-general-of-the-global-peacebuilding-association-of-japan-15052017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/ja\/2017\/05\/15\/80","title":{"rendered":"Professor Ai Kihara-Hunt of the University of Tokyo appointed the Secretary-General of the Global Peacebuilding Association of Japan (15\/05\/2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u3000Kihara-Hunt succeeds Professor Katsumi Ishizuka who had completed his term as the Secretary-General at the end of March and Mr. Shintaro Higashiyama who acted ad interim<\/em> until his departure for Bangladesh on an IOM assignment.<\/p>\n

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\u3000Ai Kihara-Hunt is currently Associate Professor, Graduate Program on Human Security, the University of Tokyo, since January 2017. She also serves as Deputy Director, Research Center for Sustainable Peace at her university. She was member of the UN Police Doctrinal Development Group, Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations in 2016. <\/p>\n

\u3000Prior to that, she worked with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN-OHCHR) in Nepal for around five years, where she managed a UN Peace Fund project on transitional justice, mapped serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law, and served as the Security Forces Focal Point\/Lead Trainer undertaking Security Sector Reform initiatives, Security Forces\u2019 curriculum reform, transitional justice related work, as well as leading capacity building programs for different stake holders. Part of her work was published in 2006 as Armed Police Force (APF) Human Rights Handbook and has been incorporated into the mandatory curriculum of the APF. <\/p>\n

\u3000Her other work experience includes Human Rights Officer assisting two Special Procedure mandates at UN-OHCHR headquarters, Assistant to the Executive Director of the Independent Special Commission of Inquiry for Timor-Leste, Associate Protection Officer at the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Sri Lanka, Public Information and Community Outreach Officer at the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor, Human Rights Officer in the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), Electoral Officer in the UN Mission in East Timor (UNAMET), Election Supervisor at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Research Officer at the Human Rights Centre attached to the University of Essex. <\/p>\n

\u3000Her publications include:\u3000Holding UNPOL to Account: Individual Criminal Accountability of United Nations Police Personnel<\/em> (Brill, 2017); \u2018Why does the immunity afforded to UN personnel not appropriately reflect the needs of the Organization?: the case of the UN police\u2019, (United Nations Studies, vol.17, 2016); \u2018UN Peace Operations: from National Security to Human Rights and Human Security\u2019 in Takahashi (ed), Human Rights, Human Security, and State Security<\/em>, Praeger, 2014); The Accountability of Personnel Associated with Peacekeeping Operations (co-authored with Prof. Fran\u00e7oise Hampson), in Aoi, de Coning and Thakur (eds), Unintended Consequences of Peacekeeping Operations<\/em>, United Nations University Press, 2007); and \u2018The Right to resort to External Self-Determination outside of the Colonial Context\u2019 (co-authored with Prof. Takashi Tsugeyama), Aoyama Journal of International Politics, Economics and Business Vol.64 , 2004).<\/p>\n

\u3000She has obtained a PhD from the University of Essex with her research on individual criminal accountability of UN police personnel, under the supervision by Prof. Fran\u00e7oise Hampson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kihara-Hunt succeeds Professor Katsumi Ishizuka who had completed his term as the Secretary-General at the end of March and Mr. Shintaro Higashiyama who acted ad interim<\/em> until his departure for Bangladesh on an IOM assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18,20,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recent-works","category-organizational-management","category-management-committee","category-current-situation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gpaj.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}