Young People’s Messages
for Peace,
“How Can We Create
Peace Together?”
Advisors and Staff
Name of the Organization: Global Campaign for Peace Education, Japan
Websites of the organization:
The top page of the official website of Global Campaign for Peace Education, Japan (Japanese);
The suggestion from Global Campaign for Peace Education, Japan (English and Japanese)
http://jalt.org/pansig/PGL1/HTML/Asakawa_Matsui1.htm
The official website of Global Campaign for Peace Education, New York, the U.S.A. (English)
http://www.peace-ed-campaign.org/
Representative of the organization:
Prof. Matsui, Kathy
Profile: Matsui, Kathy R. PhD, is Professor at the Department of Global Citizenship Studies, Seisen University (Tokyo, Japan) and has taught courses on conflict resolution and peace related subjects. Her research concerns are development of capacities for conflict resolution and reconciliation. She works with peace researchers and educators internationally in International Institute on Peace Education and Global Partnership for Prevention of Armed Conflict. She is currently an advisory board member for Hague Appeal for Peace, Global Campaign for Peace Education, and board chair of Oxfam International, Japan. She is also active in her participation in inter-religious dialogue as the President of International Association for Liberal Religious Women (IALRW), a council member of International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF), and a member of the Women’s Executive Committee, and Peace Education Commission of Religions for Peace (WCRP).
Northeast Asia Regional Peacebuilding Institute (NARPI) http://www.narpi.net
Conflict Resolution Education Connection (Creducation) http://www.creducation.org
Hague Appeal for Peace, Global Campaign for Peace Education (GCPE) http://www.peace-ed-campaign.
Hague Appeal for Peace, Global Campaign for Peace Education,
Japan (GCPEJ) http://ww.gcpej.jimdo.com/
International Institute of Peace Education (IIPE) http://www.i-i-p-e.org
International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF) http://www.iarf.net
International Association for Liberal Religious Women (IALRW) http://www.ialrw.org/
World Conference of Religions for Peace http://religionsfor peace.org
World Conference of Religions for Peace, Japan http://saas01.netcommons.net/
Right to Peace International Campaign http://right-to-peace.com/
Transcend Japan http://www.transcendjapan.net
The person in charge of this project:
Akamatsu, Atsuko
Institution: Lecturer at English Department of Sotoku High School in Hiroshima City, Japan, secretary general of the Chushikoku Branch of Global Campaign for Peace Education, Japan
Email address: peacemessages555@gmail.com
Advisors and teachers who cooperate for this project in alphabetical order of their family name:
<Japanese>
Asakawa Kazuya: Professor of Tokai Gakuen University; secretary general of the Global Campaign for Peace Education in Japan http://jalt.org/pansig/PGL1/HTML/Asakawa_Matsui1.htm;
chief organizer of the International Institute on Peace Education 2012 in Japan;
staff member who will attend the International Conference of Peace Museums (the fee for the transportation and attendance of the international conference of museums for peace will be paid by his university);
Chair of Engaged Pedagogy Association, http://epajapan.jimdo.com/;
Director of NPO Bridge for Peace, http://bridgeforpeace.jp/;
Director of NPO Ancient Future, http://afutures.net/;
Director of PEACE NEWS JAPAN, http://www.peacenewsjapan.com/nihongo/room.html;
Steering Committee Member of NPO ERIC International Education Resource and Innovation Center, http://eric-net.org/;
Associate Member Representative of NPO The Japan Council on the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD-J);
A Translator of Great Peacemakers http://www.amazon.com/Great-Peacemakers-Stories-Around-World/dp/0980138205/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394271634&sr=8-1&keywords=Great+Peacemakers
Hoshino Kazuhiro: Napoleon Hill Foundation Asia Pacific Ocean headquarters district distributor instructor (Napoleon Hill Foundation headquarters are located in the Indiana State University Calumet campus)
Ikeda Eriko: Director of Women's Active Museum on War and Peace（wam) http://wam-peace.org/en/
Kakuta Naoko: Representative of ERIC, International Education Resource & Innovation Center, an organization for education for sustainable development in Japan
Translated "Peace Education: the Passway for the Culture of Peace", which you can read at http://pepathway.exblog.jp/
Kashimura Mineko: Teacher of English of Otowa Junior High School of Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo; Secretary General of New English Teachers’ Association
http://www.shin-eiken.com/about/index_e.html
Kasuya Takako: Chairperson of Shizuoka Mothers' Congress Liaison Committee; Advisor of Ever Green, a steering committee for events for peace including lectures, trips, interviews, and exhibitions by high school students, teachers, and volunteer citizens of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Kenjo Shohei: Teacher of English of Gunma Prefectural Numata High School; editor of the official website of New English Teachers’ Association
http://www.shin-eiken.com/about/index_e.html
Kikuchi Keiko: Lecturer of Rikkyo University and Daito Bunka University
Nara Katsuyuki: Research fellow at Education and Welfare Center of Shiraume Gakuen University, Director of International Division of New English Teachers Association
http://www.shin-eiken.com/about/index_e.html;
Staff member who will attend the International Conference of Peace Museums;
Translator of Article 9 Association's news and bulletin
http://www.9-jo.jp/en/index_en.html;
Author of Rise Again Motala!, CHRIS MOON towards a peaceful, mine-free world, Peace Crane Kamishibai
http://sanyusha-shuppan.com/sidereader/sidereader.html#Anchor-Rise-51540
Ohno Kazuo: Lecturer of Toyo University, Member of Association of Teachers of History
Sakamoto Hitomi, Professor at Toyo Gakuen University
Sakuma Kazuko: Lecturer of Sophia University; member of New English; Teachers’ Association; member of Association of Peace Education
Nagata Suwako: Founder and teacher of organic farming in Kenyan NGO Hiro’s Organic Farming Group, which teaches organic farming and marketing to local farmers in its farm and shop in Kenya http://www.facebook.com/l/ZAQHyPgqSAQFcsM63_jbknzWdGZ2Vz2rXctXlqWqhtEOhgQ/hiroorganicshop.kbo.co.ke/home
coordinator of NEGAI Connection which promoted a song for peace called "NEGAI" produced by Hiroshima Municipal Ohzu Junior High students in 2002 through a website of JEARN (Japan Education and Resource Network) http://www.jearn.jp/eng/index.htmland iEARN http://www.iearn.org/ and have collected more than 2000 peace verses from the world http://www.facebook.com/l/WAQEicMDHAQGbvH4LZaiDJg_RO3ZVhonCzvxvZu7OsRIauA/www.jearn.jp/2003conference/negai/index.html
Shimizu Yayoi: Teacher of English of Hofu Municipal junior high schools and elementary schools; member of New English Teachers’ Association; representative of ESTEEM-yam, Elementary School Thematic English Education Movement, Yamaguchi Branch, an organization for developing thematic English learning for global education in elementary schools; staff member who will attend the International Conference of Peace Museums
Takagi Yoko: former representative of JEARN, an organization to promote international communication among schools http://www.iearn.org/ (JEARN is a branch of iEARN in Japan. iEARN (International Education and Resource Network) is a non-profit organization made up of over 30,000 schools and youth organizations in more than 140 countries. iEARN empowers teachers and young people to work together online using the Internet and other new communications technologies. Over 2,000,000 students each day are engaged in collaborative project work worldwide. Since 1988, iEARN has pioneered on-line school linkages to enable students to engage in meaningful educational projects with peers in their countries and around the world. http://www.iearn.org/)
Takeuchi Hisaaki: Associate professor of Tokyo Woman’s Christian University
Watanabe Kuniko: president of Tomo Corporation, a company in Hiroshima that produced the documentary film “Barefoot Gen’s Hiroshima”
Watanabe Tomoko: founder and executive director of ANT-Hiroshima, an NGO involved in a range of relief, reconstruction, and peace-building projects in a number of countries, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, and Philippines
http://www.ant-hiroshima.org/welcometoanthiroshima.html;
co-founder/coordinator, The Green Legacy Hiroshima Initiative http://www.unitar.org/green-legacy-hiroshima-featured-japanese-newspaper;
vice president of Association for Annapurna Neurological Institute http://annapurnahospital.com.np/association-for-annapurna-neurological-institute/;
board of directors, Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation
http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/hpcf/english/index.html
Yanagisawa Tamio: Professor at East Japan International University; Lecturer at Rissho University and Hitotsubashi University; Former president of New English Teachers’ Association http://www.shin-eiken.com/about/index_e.html
Yamaguchi Ryoko: member of Kyoto Branch of New English Teachers’ Association http://www.shin-eiken.com/about/index_e.html;
advisor of a sectional meeting for peace education in Japan National Conference of New English Teachers’ Association; member of Allen Nelson Peace Project
Yamane Kazuyo: Associate Professor of Peace Studies at Ritsumeikan University; http://research-db.ritsumei.ac.jp/Profiles/91/0009015/prof_e.html
Vice director of Kyoto Museum for World Peace;
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/mng/er/wp-museum/english/index.html
INMP board member;
<From other countries>
Armer, Isabel: Australian Teacher of English of Bright Future Community Centre, Nepal
Badea, Daniela Teacher of English of Colegiul National "Nichita Stanescu" Ploiesti, Romania
Cabezudo, Alicia : Escuela de Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario – Argentina
Castro, Loreta: Program Director of Center for Peace Education Miriam College
Author of “"Peace Education: the Passway for the Culture of Peace," which is downloadable here:
http://www.peace-ed-campaign.org/resources/other-lessons.html
Cates, Kip: Professor, Faculty of Regional Sciences, Tottori University; Assistant Director, Global Education Office, Tottori University; Chair, JALT Global Issues in Language Education SIG http://www.gilesig.org/ ; Editor, JALT Global Issues in Language Education Newsletter; Chair and Founder, Asian Youth Forum (AYF)
Cooper, Bridget: Teacher of Japanese of Sexton High School, Michigan, USA
Court, Eryl: Member of Executive Board of Science for Peace, a Canadian organization consisting of natural scientists, engineers, social scientists, scholars in the humanities and people from the wider community seeking to understand and act against the forces that make for militarism, environmental destruction, and social injustice; member of Executive Board of the Canadian Peace Research Association; Participant in the Unitarian-Universalist United Nations Office, functioning in the Church Centre for the United Nations in New York City
Cubbon, Stephanie Knox :
Peace Education Program Coordinator, Teachers Without Borders
http://teacherswithoutborders.org/
Director of Education, Metta Center for Nonviolence http://mettacenter.org/
Adjunct Faculty, Peace Studies Department, San Diego City College http://www.sdcity.edu/peacestudies
Gelb, Steven: Ph.D co-director of the Peace Education certificate program and professor, University of San Diego, California, USA. http://www.internationalpeaceandconflict.org/profile/StevenGelb?xg_source=activity#.Uxr4qZXNvIU
Goren, Marsha: organizer of a website Global Dreamers for students’ messages for peace, Israel http://www.globaldreamers.org/11peace/index.html
Gressel, Debra: Teacher of fine art of Hathaway Brown School, Ohio, the U.S.A.
Harris, Shelini: Doctoral Candidate Research School of Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University; Formerly Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Religious Studies, Guilford College, USA with a Permaculture Design Certificate, engaged in sustainability and environmental issues as an essential part of peace work (the website of one of the co-founders of permaculture David Holmgren: http://holmgren.com.au/about-permaculture/)
Jenkins, Tony: Vice President for Academic Affairs, National Peace Academy, the U.S.A.
http://nationalpeaceacademy.us/
http://www.peace-ed-campaign.org/newsletter/archives.html
Kaplan, Mustafa: Teacher of English of Bayramic MGC Anatolian High School, Turkey
Kester, Kevin: PhD Student at Cambridge University; Founding Member of the Cambridge Peace and Education Research Group http://www.facebook.com/l/HAQHGir0eAQG6Z1WsUsQFbv6I6T2XqOa231DcHZ36n98gOw/cperg.weebly.com/ ;
Fellow and Lecturer at the Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Hargeisa, Somaliland http://www.facebook.com/l/pAQHMwRNQAQGCUW309PxwL1u1sbpII8_zpZR4boO6iZxtEg/huniversity.net/2011/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=20&Itemid=58
(The Cambridge Peace and Education Research Group is based at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. As a Special Interest Group of the Faculty's Education, Equality and Development (EED) research strand, CPERG provides a hub for the sharing and exchange of ideas among researchers around the relationships between conflict, peace, and education, both in the UK and internationally.)
Leeper, Steven: professor of Hiroshima Jogakuin University, Hiroshima, Japan; former chairperson of Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/hpcf/english/index.html;
Editor of Peace News Japan http://www.peacenewsjapan.com/eigo/archive.html
Levander, Hans: Senior Medical Doctor, Global Citizen; Chairman Life-Link program, an organization to promote international communication among schools in Sweden http://www.life-link.org/
O'Connor, Joan: Director of Global Communities for Peace working with schools and universities in South Australia, developing programs for peace http://globalcommunitiesforpeace.com/joan.html
Peixoto, Manuela: Teacher at Escola Secundaria de Amores, Braga, Porutugal
Pieroni, Grazia: Teacher of English of San Fillippo International School, Umbria, Italy
Pilmann, Mette: Teacher of English of Ostervangsskolen, Denmark
Rabbani, Rana Ehtisham: Lawyer; former president of District Bar Association, Okara; Pakistan; author of four books on peace; member Board of Directors of GAMIP or Global Alliance for Ministries & Infra Structure of Peace – Switzerland http://www.gamip.org/;
Lecturer on peace in educational institutions;
Organizer of exhibitions on devastating effects of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Tchatchouang, Patrick : Teacher of English of Nesta Primary and Secondary School, Douala, Cameroon
Trefilova, Irina: Teacher of English of Lyceum of Dolgorukovo, Lipetsk Region, Russia
Tsoneva, Nina: ESL teacher, Hristo Botev High School, Kubrat, Bulgaria
Wingate, Kristin: Teacher of Japanese of Ridge High School, New Jersey, the U.S.A.; Advisor of Japanese National Honor Society; Treasurer/Webmaster of New Jersey Association of Teachers of Japanese
Yacoobi, Sakena: Founder and Executive Director of the Afghan Institute of Learning, an Afghan women-led NGO to provide teacher training to Afghan women, to support the education of Afghans, and to provide health education to women and children
http://www.afghaninstituteoflearning.org/index.html;
the Professor Sakena Yacoobi Private Hospital in Herat, and the Professor Sakena Yacoobi Private High Schools in Kabul and Herat, Afghanistan; former professor at D’Etre University, the U.S.A.;
Vice-President of Creating Hope International, a Michigan based non-profit organization http://www.creatinghope.org/index.html;
Ashoka Fellow https://www.ashoka.org/fellows;
Skoll and Schwab Social Entrepreneur http://www.skollfoundation.org/;
Member of the Global Fund for Women Board of Directors
Advisor for the Fetzer Institute http://www.fetzer.org/;
Commissioner for the Women’s Refugee Commission https://womensrefugeecommission.org/
Ms. Arline Boyle is an American artist who is helping students in San Fillippo International School in Italy. She allowed us to share her great works for peace.
