Events
Academic year 2012
- The Fifth Research Conference of the Truth-Seeking Network for Forced Mobilization (University of Tokyo, April 7 2012)
- Report
- Yoshizumi Masuda (Waseda University) : “Coming to terms with the past of forced labor –from German experience”
*Supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research for interdisciplinary genocide studies
- Research meeting in preparation for the 3rd Global Conference on Genocide (University of Tokyo, June 2012)
- International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS) 3rd Global Conference on Genocide (San Francisco State University, June 30, 2012)
- Report
- Yuji Ishida (University of Tokyo): “Genocide Research in Japan: Taking a Step Forward for‘Sustainable’Genocide Prevention”
- Report
- Ai Yamashita (PhD candidate, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo) “Why Exploring for Genocide prevention Tools? – From Field Research in Rwanda”
- Report
- Kyoko Cross (PhD candidate, Graduate School of Law, Kobe University): “The Limits of Trials in Dealing with the Past: Holistic Transnational justice Approach towards Proactive Genocide Prevention”
- Report
- Masaki Sawa (Waseda University): “Evaluation of the Roles of NGOs in Preventing Genocide: A Theoretical Approach and its Evaluation”
- Report
- Mayumi Watabe (University of Tokyo): “‘Ideal’and‘Reality’: Can Japan Proactively Join Genocide Prevention Initiatives in the International Area?”
- Research meeting with the project members (University of Tokyo, February 17, 2013) *scheduled
Academic year 2011
- Peace Studies Association of Japan Spring Conference 2011, sectional meeting on “genocide studies” (June 4, Niigata University of International and Information Studies, 2011)
- Report
- Kiminori Sato (Kyoritsu Women’s University/ Research Fellow, University of Tokyo): “Genocide and‘Bio-politics’: An analysis of the Criminology and Punishment in Germany from the late 19th Century until the 1920s”
- Report
- Yoshizumi Masuda (Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University):
“The logic and structure of exclusion and inclusion seen in the Nazi genocide and their consequences”
- Chair
- Yuji Ishida (University of Tokyo)
- International Symposium “Civil society and violence in the history of modern Germany”

September 18, 2011, University of Tokyo
* In collaboration with the Japanese Society for Modern German History
- Symposium on the 20th anniversary of the Paris peace agreements
“Where stands developing Cambodia now? Towards sustainable development and peace” 
(Komaba Campus, University of Tokyo, October 15, 2011)
*Supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research for interdisciplinary genocide studies
Peace Studies Association of Japan Fall Research Seminar 2011, sectional meeting on “genocide studies (Hiroshima Shudo University, October 30, 2011)
Report: Masaki Sawa (Waseda University): “The Blind Spots in theory of genocide prevention - for a more universal genocide prevention theory”
Chair: Yuji Ishida (University of Tokyo)
Academic year 2010
- Shlomo Sand, Lecture, “Israel - Jewish and Democratic”
(University of Tokyo, June 18, 2010) 
- Peace Studies Association of Japan Spring Conference 2010, sectional meeting on “genocide studies” (Ochanomizu University, June 19, 010)
- Report
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Kyoko Cross : (PhD candidate, Graduate School of Law, Kobe University)
“Mixed-type transitional justice systems in East Timor and Rwanda - a comparative analysis based on constitutive localization”
- Commentator
- Mayumi Watabe (University of Tokyo)
- Chair
- Yuji Ishida (University of Tokyo)
- Asian Institute for Intellectual Collaboration (peace research unit)
, Rikkyo University, public lecture: “The massacres of the Pol Pot period, unhealed wounds and the path to reconciliation (Rikkyo University, October 23, 2010)
*Supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research for interdisciplinary genocide studies
- Peace Studies Association of Japan Fall Research Seminar 2010, sectional meeting on “genocide studies” (Ibaraki University, November 6, 2010)
- Report
- Masaki SAWA (PhD candidate, Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University): “An examination of the history of research on genocide - the spread of the academic movement for the prevention of genocide”
- Commentator
- Yoshizumi Masuda (University of Tokyo)
- Chair
- Yuji Ishida (University of Tokyo)
- Workshop "The Development of Genocide Studies" (University of Tokyo, December 19, 2010)
- Report
- 1. Mayumi Watabe (University of Tokyo): “The analysis of perpetrators in genocide studies and its range - ordinary people and the ‘Extraordinary Evil’”
2. Kyoko Cross: “Restorative justice and reconciliation in post-conflict societies - Through the practice of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission”
3. Akira Ohno (Faculty of Humanities, Shizuoka University): “The Cultural Revolution in China and the mass killings of Mongolian people - the relationship between genocide and ethnic problems”
- Chair
- Yuji Ishida (University of Tokyo)
Academic year 2009
- Todai Forum 2009 “Human Security and Business-Focusing on Conflicts, Human Mobility and Governance”
(City University, London, April 27, 2009)
- Report
- Yuji Ishida (University of Tokyo): “Genocide, Genocide Prevention and Business”
- Coordinator
- Yasunobu Sato (University of Tokyo)
- Peace Studies Association of Japan Spring Conference 2009, sectional meeting on “genocide studies” (Keisen University, June 13, 2009)
- Report
- Hiromi Igari (PhD candidate, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo)
- Chair
- Miwako Fukunaga (University of Tokyo)
- International Symposium “Genocide in Darfur: It is our responsibility” (Tokyo University, October 18, 2009)
*Supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research for interdisciplinary genocide studies
Peace Studies Association of Japan Fall Research Seminar 2009, sectional meeting on “genocide studies” (Ritsumeikan University, November 29, 2009)
- Report
- Mayumi Watabe (PhD candidate, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo): “The efforts at the United Nations to construct a system of “genocide prevention - challenges and prospects”
- Chair
- Yuji Ishida
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