The IARS team invites you to the Second International Conference on Reconciliation Tokyo 2021, We hope to see you online on August 5– 7.

The IARS team invites you to the Second International Conference on Reconciliation Tokyo 2021, hosted by the Center for International Reconciliation Studies at Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan).

We hope to see you online or perhaps in person on August 5– 7.

Even if we are physically apart, we are still together as a community, connected by a shared passion for Reconciliation Research and peacebuilding practices.

Please see attached Flyer and Zoom registration link for the event

WEBINAR FREE REGISTRATION LINK:

THE START TIME AUG 5: 19:00 IN TOKYO, 12:00 IN GERMANY, 6:00 IN NEW YORK
Conference Coordinator – Mr. Binyamin Gurstein
Logistics Coordinator – Dr. Bin Huang　bean0903@gmail.com

August 5, 2021 in 19:00 Tokyo, （12:00 in Germany, 6:00 in New York）
Aug 6, 2021 19:00 in Tokyo, （12:00 in Germany, 6:00 in New York）
Aug 7, 2021 19:00 in Tokyo （12:00 in Germany, 6:00 in New York）

The Program of IARS in Tokyo, on 5th-7^th in August, 2021

<<Day1: 5^th in August: Tokyo:19:00, Germany:12:00, EST in US: 6:00>>

<Opening Session,Tokyo    19:00-21:00>

Chair: Prof. Asano Toyomi
(Director of WCRS[The Waseda Center for International Reconciliation Studies] )

“Welcome to Tokyo in a new world”

Keynote speech: Prof. Martin Leiner

(Director of JCRS[Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies], Jena University)

 “Researching on Reconciliation in an unreconciled world”

 

Introducing remarks for related organizations.

 

Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution by Prof. Karina Korostelina:

(George Mason University, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution)

“A future vision for Reconciliation: introducing next year IARS conference”

 

Prof. Yul Sohn [President of The East Asia Institute in South Korea, Graduate School of International Studies and Underwood International College, Yonsei University]

 

Prof. Atsuko Kawakita [Director of Center for German and European Studies (DESK), Department of Area Studies, Tokyo University]

 

Prof. Kijeong NAM [Institute for Japanese Studies, Seoul National University]

 

Prof. Jimmy Hsu [Associate Research Professor, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica in Taiwan]

 

Prof. Naoyuki UMEMORI [Chief of Waseda Research Institute of Taiwan, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University]

 

Prof. Atsushi Ishida [Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 19th President of the Japan Peace Society

 

Prof. Wenting(Florence) Yang [NCCU: National Chengchi University

 

Prof. Taihei OKADA [Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo]

Messages from interested institutions

National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF): Programs for peace studies and reconciliation

 

AARMENA [The Academic Alliance for Reconciliation Studies in the Middle East and Northern Africa presentation] by Dr. phil Iyad Muhsen AlDajani [Executive & Research Director]

 

WCRS[Waseda Center for International Reconciliation Studies] by Prof. Toyomi Asano

 

JCRS [Jena center for Reconciliation Studies] by Prof. Martin Leiner

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<Panel 1: Historical Origin of Reconciliation in Asia, 21:10 -23:10: Tokyo>

Chair: Barak Kushuner (Cambridge University in UK)

1. Atsuko Kawakita (Tokyo University)

Repatriation of German People from Eastern Europe and Reconciliation within Europe

2. Toyomi Asano (Waseda University)

Repatriation of Japanese from Asia and Reconciliation with Asia

3. Kijong Nam (Seoul National University)

Post-war South Korea and Post-war Japan

Discussion: Barak Kushuner

Discussion: Karina Korostelina

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<<Day2: 6^th in August: Tokyo:19:00, Germany:12:00, EST in US: 6:00>>

<Panel 2: Trauma and Healing , From Theory and Practice, Tokyo:19:00-21:00>

Chair: Francesco Ferrari [Post-Doc Research Fellow, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena]

1. Francesco Ferrari

The Irrevocable as Cultural Trauma – and its Impact on Reconciliation

2. Juditta Ben-David [PhD candidate JCRS]

Scare to approach: Mindfulness and Trauma healing in reconciliation processes

3. Luis Pena [Post doctoral fellow, JCRS]

Ecology and Spatiality of Reconciliation: the territorialization of life

Discussant：Yoshihiro Nakano (Waseda University)

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＜Panel 3: Contemporary Reconciliation Between South and North Korea in Global context, Tokyo: 21:10-23:10>

Chair: Naoyuki Umemori [Prof. Waseda University]

1. Chung-Hyun Baik[Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology, Presbyterian University

and Theological Seminary in South Korea]

A Touchstone for Reconciliation and Reunification of Two Koreas:Mutual Understanding and Embrace between North Korean Refugees and South Koreans

2. Miae Yoo [PhD candidate JCRS]

Challenges of Psychological Integration among North Korean Refugees in South Korea:

Implications for Inter-Korean Reconciliation

3. Satoru Miyamoto [Prof. Seigakuin University]

Satoru Miyamoto [Prof. Seigakuin UniverNorth Korea’s Worldwide Participation in Wars: Is it possible for North Korea to Reconcile with the US and its ally?

Discussant: Ria Roy [Ph.D candidate in Cambridge University]

Discussant: Jahyun Chun (Associate prof. Yonsei University)

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Panel 4: Reconciliation in Societies with Difficult Past, Tokyo: 23:20-25:20>

Chair: Taihei Okada

1. Karina Korostelina [Prof. George Mason University]

Identity-based Approach to Reconciliation

2. Francesco Tamburini [Dr. Università di Pisa]

Through Manipulation:How Algeria Used Monopoly on History to Survive to the Civil War?

3. Abderrazak MESSAOUD [Research Assistant, Ibn Khaldon Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Qatar University]

Factors Affecting Moroccan Reconciliation Initiatives: an Exploratory Investigation

4. Abdulrahman Saeed Alkuwari [Internal Security Forces, Qatar, Research Assistant, Ibn Khaldon Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Qatar University]

Examine the importance of Turkey’s intervention as part of the international negotiation team to resolve the Azerbaijan-Armenian conflict.

Discussant: Engy Mohamed Ibrahim Said [PhD students in George Mason Univ]

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<<Day3: 7^th in August, Tokyo:19:00, Germany:12:00, EST in US: 6:00>———–

<Panel 5: Role of Institution in Reconciliation, 19:00-21:00: Tokyo>

Chair: Binyamin Gurstein  [Ph.D Candidate, JCRS]

1 Attila Nagy [Ph.D candidate, JCRS]

Reconciliation as a way to bring justice to future generations, in the EU neighbourhood  such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Ukraine and Nagorno-Karabakh

2. Vladislav Dimitrov [Post Dr. in KPI: Ukraine]

Post-Soviet Union church separation and reconciliation: Modern Ukrainian state aspect

3. Naoko Kumagai [Prof. Aoyama Gakuin University]

Reconciliation with Oneself: Process of Self-Reflection in the Controversy over Yasukuni in Postwar Japan

4. Engy Mohamed Ibrahim Said [PhD students in Carter school,George Mason Univ]

Identity Between Division and Citizenship: The Role of Institutions in Service Provision in Divided Societies

Discussant: Wenting(Florence) Yang

Discussant: Natia Chankvetadze [PhD students in Carter school, George Mason Univ]

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<Panel 6: Reconciliation over Gender and Youth, 21:10-23:10: Tokyo>

Chair: Karina Korostelina [George Mason University]

1. Abdelghani Mohamed Abdelghani Elhusseini [MA in ?]

Women as Reconciliation Actors : Religion Intersecting Hölderlin Perspective

2. Charalampos (Babis) Karpouchtsis [Ph.D candidate, JCRS]

Germany’s foreign policy of reconciliation: the new and unknown case of Greece

3. Natia Chankvetadze [PhD student at Carter School, George Mason University]

Youth in Conflict-Affected Societies

Discussant: Naomi kraenbring [PhD students in Carter school, George Mason Univ]

Discussant: Naoko Kumagai [Prof. Aoyama Gakuin University]

 

 

 

＜The following sentences are old announcement＞

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We now seek essays and panels for the Annual Conference of the International Association for Reconciliation Studies (August 5-7, 2021)

We seek essays for the International Association for Reconciliation Studies (IARS), which will take place on August 5-7, 2021 (details below). Additionally, “the Creation of Reconciliation Studies” in the New Region and the Center for International Reconciliation Studies organized the Development of Reconciliation Studies in East Asia, March 4-6, 2021, under the support of the International Association for Reconciliation Studies (IARS). We received 197 registrations from all around the world (Japan: 68; South Korea: 31; the United States: 22; Taiwan: 7; Germany: 9; United Kingdom: 6; and over 20 more countries).

We sincerely thank the network of the joint international association for reconciliation studies, which enabled participation from all around the world.

In regard to the Trump phenomenon, memory of slavery, re-rise of nationalism, problems of historical awareness in East Asia, and succession of ethnic conflicts in the third world today, there seems to be an increasing number of incidents that question how much systems, which exist on the domestic and international level, are related to the unity of emotion, memory, and values that were previously regarded as subjective elements. Scholarship for this issue is therefore divided into international politics and domestic politics. Moreover, the knowledge of psychology and cultural anthropology is essential.

I believe the reason for the congregation of such a great number of scholars from around the world for the workshop, the Development of Reconciliation Studies in East Asia which should be deemed a successful presentation of the project, is because there are increasingly more phenomena that cannot be explained effectively in the existing scholarship. Please click here for the details of the workshop.

The next event will be the Second Annual Conference of the IARS, which will be held on August 5-7 in 2021 in Tokyo. We will be seeking panelists and presenters until the end of April. I very much look forward to your application.

和解学といっても、国際関係学同様に、アプローチは、歴史的実証的なもの、および、理論的なものに分かれます。具体的な研究は、その両方が組み合わされているもので構いません。個々の具体的テーマが存在するのは当然でありますが、どこを見ようとする歴史であり、理論であるのかについて、和解学はレベルを跨いだ政治、しかも感情や記憶に関わるそれを中心に、新しい潮流を生み出そうとするものです。Even within Reconciliation Studies, approaches are divided into historical and empirical ones, as well as theoretical ones, just like the field of international relations. Such research can, of course, take an approach that combines both. Each has its own specific theme, but regarding which area of history it examines and what theory it employs, Reconciliation Studies attempts to give rise to a new current by centering around politics that strands over levels and emotion and memory related to it.

 

ぜひ、次の国際和解学会世界大会へも、ご応募ください。

I would very much like to encourage you to apply to the next annual conference of the IARS.

 

和解や和解への原理的反対をめぐる現象を念頭に、学問的にアプローチするものを歓迎します。強力な感情が記憶や普遍的価値や正義といかに結ばれ、国内外の制度を動かし、次元を超えた政治を展開するのかレベルを超えた「共振」、国際的規範をめぐる内外政治の構造や実例、そしてトランプ政権の遺産、国際立憲主義、人種問題、奴隷の記憶、生きた被害者と民主化の歓迎など、歓迎です（詳しくは、上のパンフレットにも、英語で記載があります）。歴史や現実の国際関係に関わるフィールドワーク的実証研究や、多様な和解をどうみるか理論的なもの、いずれも問題ありません。ぜひ、今回の国際ワークショップを参考にしていただきたいです。I welcome academic approaches that keep in mind reconciliation and phenomena that surround the principle of opposition to reconciliation. I welcome such topics as the following: the legacy of the Trump administration; international constitutionalism; racial issues; memory of slavery; acceptance of democratization and victims who survived; how strong emotion unites with memory, universal values, and justice and move the international and domestic systems, and how it develops politics that transcends dimension; and “resonance” that transcends that level (please refer to the pamphlet above in English for details). No matter it is empirical research involving fieldwork for history and contemporary international relations or theoretical work on the multitude of reconciliation, I would like to encourage you to apply. Please refer to the recent international workshop.

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＜以下は、かつての広報ページです＞

Please see below for the former public information page.

新領域「和解学の創成」 個人公募者が3名採択されました。（2020年5月）

新領域「和解学の創成」プロジェクトが公募した、新規個人研究者として、三名の方が採択されました。和解学という学問が、学問たり得るために、ともに力を合わせて研究をして参る所存です。今後とも、よろしくお願い申し上げます。以下、ご紹介申し上げます。

Three individual applicants were selected for “the Creation of Reconciliation Studies” in the New Region (May 2020).

Three people were selected as newly appointed individual research associates for the project, “the Creation of Reconciliation Studies” in the New Region. We intend to conduct research in joint cooperation to create Reconciliation Studies as an academic discipline. We very much appreciate your support. Please see below for the introduction:

小倉紀蔵（おぐら・きぞう）京都大学大学院人間・環境学研究科教授

OGURA Kizo, Professor, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, graduate studies, Kyoto University

 

研究テーマ：戦後日韓関係における尊厳概念の変遷

 

Research theme: Transition of the concept of respect in postwar Japan-South Korea relations

 

日韓の歴史認識問題に関して、思想的な側面からアプローチしてきました。その過程で、そもそも「人間観」が日韓のあいだで、またそれぞれの社会の時代 の違いによって、かなり異なっていることを考慮しなくてはならないと思いました。人間観は変化しますし、多様です。それらをきめ細かく分析していくことが、それぞれの社会、それぞれの時代における「人間の尊厳」を尊重することにつながると思います。またそもそも、「尊厳」とはなんなのか、という理論的な問題にも、さまざまな角度から取り組まなければならないと考えています。

 

Regarding the problems of historical awareness between Japan and South Korea, I approached them from an ideological angle. In this process, I realized that we have to take into consideration that the “view of human” differs between Japan and South Korea and due to change of times in each society. The view of human not only changes but is also diverse. I believe that analysing them finely leads to respecting “human dignity” in each society and each generation. I also believe that we need to attend to the theoretical problem of what “dignity” is from various angles.

 

小田桐拓志（おだぎりたくし）金沢大学国際基幹教育院准教授

 

ODAGIRI Takushi, Associate Professor, Institute of Liberal Arts and Science, Kanazawa University

 

研究テーマ：コロニアリティとハイブリディティの倫理ー東アジアの視点から

 

Research theme: Coloniality, Hybridity, Ethics: From East Asian Perspectives

 

これまで哲学倫理学とメディア研究の二つの領域で研究してきました。和解学の理論的フレームワークとして、和辻やフーコーなどを批判的に考察しつつ、コロニアリティやハイブリディティなどの基本概念の探求を行います。その際、生政治学、ネオコロニアリズムとポストコロニアリズム批評、そしてグローバライゼーションについての論争との対話を重視します。

 

This project examines the concept of “coloniality” as a theoretical framework for the study of reconciliation, with a dual focus on ethics and media studies, in dialogue with contemporary debates concerning biopolitics, neo-colonialism, postcolonial criticism, and globalization.

 

浜井和史（はまいかずふみ）帝京大学共通教育センター准教授

 

HAMAI Kazufumi, Associate Professor, Kyōtsū Kyōiku Sentā (the Center of Joint Education), Teikyo University

 

研究テーマ：海外戦没者処理をめぐる日・英・豪関係の研究

 

Research theme: Relations between Japan, United Kingdom, and Australia concerning overseas war victims

 

戦後日本の戦没者「遺骨収集」事業の展開について、「相互性」の視点を取り入れて歴史的に検討し、「戦禍の記憶」をめぐる和解プロセスに新たな視点をもたらすことを目的としています。戦争終結から1970年代までの日本とイギリス・オーストラリアとの関係をおもな研究対象としますが、朝鮮籍・台湾籍の軍人軍属等の遺骨処理の問題についてもあわせて検討したいと考えています。

 

I intend to historically examine the development of the project of “recovering the remains” of war victims in postwar Japan by injecting the perspective of “mutuality” and bring about new perspectives for the reconciliation process of the “memory of war damage.” My research is concerned with the relations between Japan, United Kingdom, and Australia from the end of the war to the 1970s. However, I will also attempt to explore the issue of recovering the remains of soldiers and civilian employees with Korean or Taiwanese nationality.

 

＜以下は募集にあたっての掲示です:最後のページをご覧ください＞

 

The following is a recruitment notice; please see the last page.

 

新領域「和解学の創成」プロジェクトは、広く個人の研究者の方々から公募による参加を呼びかけます。通常の科研費の枠で申請が開始されています。

 

“The Creation of Reconciliation Studies” in the New Region project widely calls for the participation of individual scholars through public recruitment. The application has commenced within the range of the usual Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research.

 

紛争解決学と呼ばれる学問が欧米で発展してきたことを踏まえ、それを東アジアの固有の歴史的文脈と結び合わせるべくナショナリズム研究を踏まえながら、「和解学」を創成しようとするものです。国際法、パワー、そして国益の論理に匹敵する第４の論理として、国民という社会に関わる「規範」を、記憶・感情・価値を組み合わせて論じられるようにし、それによって歴史問題にも、熱なき光をあてる知的インフラを構築したいと考えています。最終的には、ネーションが想像されるのと同様に、各国民が各々のやり方で「和解を想像」し得るような社会的条件の探求と、それに相応しい学問的社会的貢献も課題となります。

 

We intend to create “Reconciliation Studies” while keeping in mind the development of a discipline called Conflict Resolution Studies in the West and taking into account the research of nationalism that binds it with unique historical contexts of East Asia. As a fourth logic that is comparable to international law, power, and the logic of national interests, we would like to create discussions by combining the “norm” involved in society called citizens with memory, emotion, and values, and thereby constructing intellectual infrastructure that sheds light on historical issues without heat. In the same way a nation is imagined, the quest for social conditions that can “imagine reconciliation” in a unique method of each citizen and the contribution of academic society that suits such a social condition will eventually be a task, too.

 

政治学、歴史学関連分野を中心に５つの計画研究班がすでに組織されておりますが、現在、文科省から直接、本プロジェクトの公募が行われ、11月上旬が締め切りです。公募要領は、文部科学省のWEBをご参照ください。また、公募のページは科研費と同じJSPSです。

 

Five project teams, which center around politics and related fields of history, are already in place. However, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) has publicly announced the recruitment, which will end in early November. Please refer to the website of MEXT for the recruitment synopsis. The public recruitment is on the JSPS, which is also the case for the Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research.

 

公募にあたっては、国際法、法社会学、経済学、人類学、心理学など、関係する研究分野の研究者の方からの応募を大歓迎いたします。

理科系の分野では、新領域の公募は、第二の科研費とも言われることもあるそうです。本プロジェクトの公募事業に、ぜひ、ご応募くださいますれば幸いです。

（新学術領域研究（研究領域提案型）プロジェクトは、新しい学問分野（領域）を開拓していくことを目的とするものです。）

 

Regarding the recruitment, we highly welcome applications from scholars whose areas of research are related to international law, sociology of law, economics, anthropology, and psychology. In the field of science, the public recruitment of the new region can also be called the second Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research. I will appreciate your application for this project. (The project of new academic regional research (research region proposal-based) aims to cultivate a new academic field (region)).

 

各計画班の代表者紹介ページ、および、それをまとめたパンフレットをご覧ください。

 

Please see the pamphlet for the introduction page of the representative of each project team and others.

 

2019年7月28日「和解学の創成」領域代表

浅野豊美（早稲田大学）

 

July 28, 2019, Regional Representative of “the Creation of Reconciliation Studies”

ASANO Toyomi, Waseda University