On June 14th, the justice group members made severral presentations on the legitimacy of actions taken by nation states in global politics. They explained the right of self-defense,the relationship between the nation law and the international law. After their presentations, the seminar students were devided into four groups: utilitarian, libertalian, communitarian,and structurist groups. And we discussed the implications of the murdering of Osama Bin Laden. (Eri Iijima)

On June 7th, human right group’s students made the presentation. The theme was the human right in former Yugoslavia. The first half we looked the history of Yugoslavia, history of ICTY and the result and the problem of ICTY. After that they explained IDP, Nationalism and reform of the judicial system with the cases. Then they picked up Serbian politics for its peace and development. (Nanami Ito)

Today, the environment group made presentations on environmental justice in nuclear power generation. They explained about the environmental justice, the history of environmental justice in the world and Japan over nuclear power generation, road to non-nuclear power life and environmental injustice of Fukushima nuclear accident. After the presentations, we divided ourselves into two groups and held discussions about “Do you agree with no use of the nuclear power plant? “　（Yuna Kitamura）

Today, firstly, we had a time to proofread a summary of the peace building group’s presentation for about 15minutes. Then, the development economics group made presentations on the post-conflict economic recovery. They explained the importance of infrastructure and its influence on various sides. Finally, we held discussions about action plans relevant to infrastructure rehabilitation in Afghanistan. Also five students participated in Skype communications with Ms. Erica Frey as part of the English Improvement Program. (Jieun Park)

　Two advisers of Secretariat of the International Cooperation Headquarters, Cabinet Office, Messrs. Tochibayashi and Yamamoto participated in our seminar today.
The Peace Building group made presentations on the transformation of the concept of security from national to human security. The group explained about the differences in approach of Japan and Canada for example and the reasons “Why does the Japanese government recommend Human Security so highly? “. After the presentations, both Mr. Tochibayashi and Mr. Yamamoto made their comment on the concept.
Finally we divided ourselves into several groups and held discussions about the definition of the human security. (Miyu Kameyama)

2011年4月26日のゼミでは、カンボジア特別法廷国際上級審判事の野口元郎様をゲストスピーカーとしてお招きし、講義していただきました。野口様には、国際刑事裁判の歴史から、カンボジア特別法廷、国際正義が国際刑事裁判の文脈のなかでどのように行使されてきたかを説明していただきました。過去の概略だけでなく、現在のカンボジアの市民の状況、タブー視されていた内戦やジェノサイドの事実をどのように次世代に伝えていくのかという取り組みなどを詳細に教えていただきました。（臼井崇人）
On April 26th, we invited Mr. Motoo Noguchi, an international judge of the Supreme Court Chamber at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). He made a presentation about how the international justice has been exercised the international courts. Mr. Nogchi provide us with not only an outline of its history but also circumstances of current situation of Cambodia. He also explained the significance of what the government officials and people tell facts of the genocides toward next generation. (Takato Usui)

長谷川ゼミナールは本日2011年4月12日13:30-17:00に富士見坂校舎F310において今年度初のゼミ授業を行いました。長谷川祐弘教授はまず初めに”平和”の概念がどのように変遷してきたのか説明された。平和とは、人間がただ単に死の恐怖から逃れ、安全な環境で人間らしく生きていける為の最低条件を満たすのみならず、人間としての尊厳を保ちながら生きていける状態であると述べられた。そして、国家の安全から人間の安全保障への移行、そして「人権」や「自由民主主義」の概念が、国連の平和構築活動の統合化にどのように影響を与えてきたかを説明された。（加藤美翔）

長谷川祐弘研究室は、2011年度最初のゼミ活動である春合宿が八王子セミナーハウスにて４月１日より３日まで行われ、これからのゼミ活動において２年生、３年生の垣根を越えて切磋琢磨できる環境が期待できる成果をあげて終了した。（野田悠将）