New Year’s Greetings(01/01/2024)
Happy New Year 2025. I spent this Christmas and New Year holidays in S…
2019 (Journal)
The Symposium to Commemorate the 70th Anniversary of International Cooperation, jointly organized by UNDP and JICA, was held (24/12/2024)
The “Symposium to Commemorate the 70th Anniversary of International Co…
Happy Hour Drink was held at GPAJ President Sukehiro Hasegawa’s house (14/12/2024)
Happy Hour Drink was held on December 14, 2024 at the home of GPAJ Pre…
Mr. Sukehiro Hasegawa participated in the 20th Tokyo-Beijing Forum (13/12/2024)
At the 20th Tokyo-Beijing Forum held on 5 December 2024 in Tokyo, the …
At the Tokyo-Beijing Forum hosted by the NPO Genron, a multifaceted discussion was held on topics ranging from UN reform to public diplomacy, with the aim of resolving global conflicts and building peace. Takahiro Shinyo (former UN ambassador, special advisor to the president of Kwansei Gakuin University) made a speech. (13/12/2024)
Mr. Takahiro Shinyo (former UN Ambassador, Special Advisor to the Pres…
Asia Pacific Conference 2024, November 30 – December 1, 2024 “Bridging Divides for Global Recovery”(10/12/2024)
The yearly conference organized by the RitsumeikanCenter for Asia Paci…
Judge Motoo Noguchi gave a speech in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia（2/12/2024）
Motoo Noguchi, a director of the Global Peacebuilding Association of J…
Akashi, Marwala, and Hasegawa Discuss the Possibilities for Cooperation between the Kyoto Peacebuilding Center and the United Nations University. (22/11/2024)
The Honorary Chair of the Council of the Kyoto Peacebuilding Center, M…
Kyoto Peacebuilding Center, Hasegawa Juku, 1st Study Session was held (17/11/2024)
On November 17, 2024, the 1st study session of Hasegawa Juku, Kyoto Pe…
Nobuyoshi YOKOE(13/11/2024)
Today、I met with Mr. Nobuyoshi YOKOE, a former Ministry of Economy, Tr…
Peace and security – the core mission of the United Nations (23/10/2024)
In her article contributed to the UN Association of Germany, Kerstin Leitner notes that the United Nations member states have agreed on a “Pact for the Future.” Still, the language on the UN Charter – and thus also on current threats to international peace – is not specific enough. Please click here for the full article. (23/10/2024)
Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão of Timor-Leste received former Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations Sukehiro HASEGAWA at the Prime Minister`s office on 28 August 2024, as he was visiting Timor-Leste to participate in the 25th-anniversary events of “Popular Consultations” which led to the independence of Timor-Leste and its entry into the United Nations in 2002. (28/08/2024)
Luncheon in honor of TL Government Cabinet Co-ordination Minister Agio Pereira (28/08/2024)
Professor Sukehiro Hasegawa, former Special Representative of the Secr…
Following a courtesy call on President José Ramos-Horta, Former Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General Sukehiro HASEGAWA, accompanied by Japanese Ambassador Tetsuya KIMURA, met the media on August 27, 2024. He told the reporters that Timor-Leste had emerged as a stable liberal democracy and could assist the United Nations and the international community. (27/8/2024)
Kaoru NEMOTO, Director of the United Nations Information Center(UNIC), detailed the preparations for the “Future Summit” to be held in September at UN Headquarters in New York. (23/5/2024)
I congratulate the Japanese Parliamentary Committee of the World Feder…
Suggestion for UN Reform and Strengthening
On May 17, 2023, ETO Seishiro, Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party’s United Nations Reform Examination Committee, requested Prime Minister KISHIDA, Chairman of the G7 summit of developed countries, to recommend UN reform. Members of the committee accompanied him. Prime Minister KISHIDA said he would work with President Biden to strengthen the functions of the United Nations, especially the reform of the Security Council and the expansion of its members. Please click here for the full text of the recommendations.
From left to right: ISHIBA Shigeru, SHIMOMURA Hakubun, YAMATANI Eriko, NAKASONE Hirofumi, ENDO Toshiaki, ETO Seishiro(Chair), KISHIDA Fumio(Prime Minister)、INOGUCHI Noriko(Secretary-General), FUNADA Hajime, YAMAGUCHI Tsuyoshi、KAMIKAWA Yoko, HORII Iwao, NAKATANI Gen.
Online Seminar “Winning and Losing the Nuclear Peace: Look Back on Arms Control and Non-Proliferation” (Ms. Angela Kane)
Global Peacebuilding Association of Japan (GPA-J), Kyoto Peacebuilding Center (KPC) and ACUNS Tokyo Liaison Office presented Angela Kane, Former High Representative for Disarmament Affairs and Under-Secretary-General for Management of the United Nations “Winning and Losing the Nuclear Peace: Looking Back on Arms Control and Non-Proliferation” Saturday 29 January 2022 at 10:00 hours Tokyo time and Friday 28 January 2022 at 20:00 hours Washington DC time.
Ariel Français, former UN official, finds continued expansion of radical Islam in Africa and throughout the world in spite of UN peace operations. (24/11/2019)
Following the presentation of French Ambassador Laurent PIC on the role of France in UN peace operations made at the Tokyo Peacebuilding Forum 2019, the author of Radical Islam and New Imperial Order views radical Islam and the terrorism associated with it as the dark side of the Western world and warns France and the UN about the risk of becoming stuck in a dead-end conflict in Mali.