Articles by Tatsushi Arai
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Johan Galtung’s (1930-2024) Contributions to Peace Research and Practice
Tatsushi Arai | Peace in Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
13 Aug 2024 – Excerpt of Tatsushi Arai’s presentation from a virtual panel organized by Kent State University’s School of Peace and Conflict Studies.
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Eclipse
Tatsushi Arai - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
Haiku Poem on the Total Solar Eclipse of 8 Apr 2024
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Dialogue on Hatred: A Peacebuilder’s Perspective
Tatsushi Arai, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
22 Feb 2024 – TRANSCEND Member Prof. Tatsushi Arai, a peacebuilding scholar-practitioner with twenty-five years of international experience, reflects on the sources and nature of hatred in the context of identity-based conflict.
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Engaging Conflict History and Memory across the Taiwan Strait
Tatsushi Arai - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
A Longitudinal Analysis of the Conflict Timelines from Interactive Conflict Resolution (ICR) Dialogues
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A New Helsinki Process: Restoring Pragmatic Order in Europe
Tatsushi Arai - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
The Cold War experience of broad-based security dialogues suggests how to restore pragmatic European order.
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Tatsushi Arai | ACCORD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
Lessons from Displaced Communities in Northeastern Nigeria
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Tatsushi Arai – The Kathmandu Post,
27 Feb 2017
Recognising both new and historical aspirations of New Delhi and Beijing for regional security, resource and market access, and international respect, Nepal’s foreign and defence policy must build on a balanced and practical understanding of the dynamic tension and partnership between its two giant neighbours. Shared commitment to managing divisive identity politics, inter-party competition and foreign interests is essential.
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Bruce Dayton, John Ungerleider and Tatsushi Arai | School for International Training – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
Led by three scholar-practitioners with extensive experience in the field, this webinar explores the role of experiential learning in the transformation of social conflict. It also presents real-world examples of experiential learning for peacebuilding.
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Tatsushi Arai – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2016
12:30-1:30pm, EST (GMT -5) – Free and Open to the Public
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Tatsushi Arai, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2016
This essay explores lessons from the contemporary Swiss experience of nation building as well as their applicability to conflict-affected multi-national societies searching for long-term visions of inter-communal coexistence.
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Tatsushi Arai, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
A key to realizing these measures is a sustained, systematic effort to build public awareness and capacity. Developing Arabic instruction materials on peace building and using them to train capable trainers who can effectively disseminate relevant skills and knowledge are two of the most urgent immediate tasks to enable the rest of the suggested measures to unfold.
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Tatsushi Arai, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
The inter-communal violence we have seen in Myanmar’s Rakhine State since 2012 is a manifestation of the deep-rooted structural inequity and unhealed traumas that have continuously grown in scope and intensity over generations.
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Tatsushi Arai, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The extensive use of chemical weapons in Syria, the commitment and readiness expressed by US President Barak Obama to launch airstrikes against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, and the Russian diplomatic initiative that has led to a US-Russian framework agreement on safeguarding and dismantling Syrian chemical weapons are all important developments in the prolonged war in Syria.
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Transforming the War on Terror (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Tatsushi Arai – TED Talks,
11 Jul 2011
Tatsushi Arai is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment and an associate professor of conflict transformation at SIT Graduate Institute. His current areas of interest include research in Pakistan, dialogues aimed at transforming the underlying discourse of the war on terror in the West, as well as the growing networks of organized militancy in the Afghan-Pakistan context.
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Tatsushi Arai – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2011
One way of enabling a regional process is to launch a Central and South Asian Conference for Peace and Security, modeling after the Helsinki Process of 1972-5 that had facilitated confidence-building among thirty-five European and North American countries divided by the Cold War. The proposed regional process seeks to provide a common platform of problem-solving not only for Afghanistan and Pakistan, but also for Turkey, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. PLEASE WATCH PROF. ARAI’S TED TALKS PRESENTATION ON VIDEO OF THE WEEK.
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