Conference Proceedings

The 10th International Conference of Museums for Peace (INMP 2020)

September 16-20 2020

Welcome to the archived Conference Proceedings for The 10th International Conference of Museums for Peace (INMP 2020), held as a global online event on the 16th-20th of September 2020. The Conference theme was The Role of Museums for Peace in Conveying Memories for Generations to Come. The sub-themes were: sharing memories across borders, building trust, and restoring a livable planet earth.


CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS: The INMP, Ritsumeikan University, The Institute of Philosophy & Human Values of the Kyoto University of the Arts, Kyoto Seika University; Ikenobo Junior College.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS: Prof. Shin’ichi Ago, Director of the Kyoto Museum for World Peace at Ritsumeikan University; Prof. Ikuro Anzai, INMP General Coordinator.

ADDITIONAL SUPPORTERS: Kyoto Inter-Art Exchange Association; Kyoto UNESCO Association; Association of Japanese Museums for Peace; Japanese Citizens’ Network of Museums for Peace; No More Hibakusha Project Inheriting the Memory of the A- and H-Bomb Survivors; Peace Studies Association of Japan.

Welcome / Opening Ceremony **

New Book Launch

Special Webinars

Discussing the Past, Present, and Future of Hiroshima on the 75th Anniversary
of Atomic Bombing Discussions among Directors and Curators on the Future of Peace Museums:
How do we face today's challenges and pass the baton to the next generations? Messages to peace museums from youth peace builders around the world Space and Process for Transitional Gender Justice: Civil Society, International Law,
and Peace Museum

Paper Presentations (Videos)

Fran Eve Wright, Programme Director UNESCO Club Vienna Fabio Caneri, Piera Nanetti Caramellino, Laura Sofia Caramellino Kiyokazu Hosokawa, Director, Chukiren Peace Museum Nattaporn Luangpipat, University of Wisconsin-Madison Marcus Coll, Disarmament and Security Centre | University of Canterbury Susan Moffatt-Thomas, Relative of a crewman memorialized in Fubo Peace Memorial Park Yuki Tanaka, Historian, Australia/Japan Kazuyo Yamane, Expert Advisor, Kyoto Museum for World Peace (Japan) Frauke Kempka, André Hertrich. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Clive Barrett, Chair of Trustees, The Peace Museum, Bradford, UK Kazuhisa Itou, General Secretary :No More Hibakusha Project - Inheriting Memories of the
A- and H-bomb Sufferers Kazuhisa Itou, General Secretary :No More Hibakusha Project - Inheriting Memories of the
A- and H-bomb Sufferers Kiyota Yoichi, Professor, Meisei University (Japan) Kyoko OKUMOTO, Yuko TAKABE, and Ryozo TERUOKA Dr. Tran Xuan Thao, War Remnants Museum; Ron Carver, Institute for Policy Studies;
and partners. Roxane Verhoeff, Marten van Harten, Peter van Dungen, and Petra Keppler.
Bertha von Suttner Peace Institute, The Netherlands Satoko Oka Norimatsu, Director, Peace Philosophy Centre Charlotte Hall, Curator, The Peace Museum, (UK) Takuo Namisashi and staff, Peace Museum Itabashi Campaign, Japan Syeda Rumana Mehdi, University of York, UK Anneliese Hardman, Former Museum Assistant, Cambodia Peace Gallery, USA Parin Somani, International Academic Scholar, Gujarat University (India) Yusuke Hasunuma, Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibiton Hall Ayako Ohzeki, Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University Kazuki Sakai, Representative Director, As One Network (Japan) Yuko Tsuchiya, Associate Professor, Hiroshima University of Economics (JAPAN) Joachim Alt, PhD Candidate, Hokkaido University (Japan) Kyung Jin HA, Associate Professor, Hiroshima City University (Japan) Shannen Johnson and Jude Wright, The Peace Museum, UK Magdalena-Cristina BUTUCEA - Founder Peace Museum Romania Liu Ru,,The Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese
Imperial Army (China) Sofron Otilia, Technical High school Independenta Sibiu, Romania; Yoshida Jun,
Akzo Nobel, Tokyo, Japan Haobam Joyremba, Fmr. Secretary, Manipur Tourism Forum Fumiko Yamashita, Chief Secretary, Women's Active Museum on War and Peace Fumiko Ishioka, Director, Tokyo Holocaust Education Resource Center (Japan) Lindsay Mell, Community Engagement Coordinator, United Nations Association
of Australia Chung Koodo, Chairman, No Gun Ri International Peace Foundation, Korea Junko Kanekiyo, Curator, Kyoto Museum for World Peace (Japan) Yorio Kitamura, Associate Professor, Ritsumeikan University (Japan) Shinobu Goto, Associate professor, Fukushima university (Japan) Erik Somers, Culture Historian / Curator, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide
Studies Naoko Jin, Representative, Bridge for Peace (Japan) Joyce Apsel; Clinical Professor NYU; President Institute for Study of Genocide (USA) Akari Kojima, Yoshiki Kanai, RADICAL BANANA Kathleen Cogan, MA, LPC-Intern (TX) Ikuro Anzai, Secretary General, Organizing Committee of INMP 2020 [Japanese, with English subtitles 日本語、英語字幕付き] Chihiro Uchimura, Director of Fukutsukan Museum Yukinori Okamura, Curator, Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima panels Keisuke Okamura, Vice director of Grassroots House (Japan) Seishi Ishibashi, Curator, Sumida Ward Sumida Heritage Museum (Japan) Kya Kim, Director, Peace Mask Project (Kyoto, Japan) Masahito Kasuga NHK (Japan) Amanda M. Kingston & Lucy E. Bailey, Oklahoma State University AeDuck Im, Lecturer, Jeju National University, South Korea Roy Tamashiro, Professor Emeritus, Webster University (USA) Emi Karimata: Himeyuri Peace Museum / Himeyuri Peace Research Center (Japan)

General Meeting

Agenda and Notes

Papers (Articles)

Ryotaro KATSURA. Visiting Scholar, Vietnam-Japan Univ. and Hue University Ada Aharoni, President IFLAC: International Forum for the Literature and Culture of Peace Lucy Colback, Freelance writer Peter Herborn, former lecturer, centre for peace and conflict studies, Sydney university Ikuro Anzaii, Nobuko Kontani, Yoshihiro Kontani, Ikuro Anzai, Keiko Nakano, Keita Nakano Syed Sikander Mehdi, Director Academics and Projects, Malir University, Karachi, Pakistan Zhang Jianjun, Liu Jingjing, Liu Siyu, Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by
Japanese Invaders. Balkrishna Kurvey , No More Hiroshima: No more Nagasaki: Peace Museum Peter van den Dungen, Bertha von Suttner Peace Institute Takayuki Kodera, Research Fellow, International Peace Research Institute, Meiji Gakuin
University Tomoko Sakai, Associate Professor, Kobe University (Japan) Patporn Phoothong, Thailand Masakazu Masuda; Kyoto Association of 2nd & 3rd Generation Hibakusha Caretaker Seungeun Kim, Yeonghwan Kim, Kaori Nogi

Panel Discussions

Yoko Urbain, Lynda-ann Blanchard, Freya Higgins Desbiolles. Arielle Dzaferagic, Dayton International Peace Museum Dr. Junko Toriyama, Dr. Shin Yasuda, Prof. Léon Buskens Kimberly Baker, Munuve Mutisya, Francis Odongyoo, Lamudak Okech, Jesper Magnusson Eva Rodriguez Riestra, Wendy Lambourne, Liz Bowen, Frank Hutchison, Tim Ford,
Peter Herborn Liz Bowen, Wendy Lambourne, Nina Burridge, Anne Noonan, Frank Hutchinson,
Lindsay Mell Presented by The Peace Philosophy Center, Vancouver, BC (CANADA) A panel discussion/dialogue with five peace scholar-educators who presented papers on pilgrimages to
memorials and museums for peace.

Video Exhibits

MARK STREET, Director; FIONA COCHRANE, Producer; F-Reel films; William Kelly;
and the Gernika Peace Museum Kazuaki Tanahashi, Director, A World Without Armies; Clair Greenfelder,
codirector; JR Sheets, filmmaker. Peter Chung, CCPI. Won Chung, Juan Freitez, Jeoung Lee, Jeff Pierce, Ellen Swanson

Poster Exhibits

Tommy Spree, Director, Anti-War Museum Berlin Christian Bartolf (President, Gandhi Information Center, Berlin, Germany)
Dominique Miething (Freie Universität Berlin; Gandhi Information Center) Betsy Anne Kawamura, Women4Nonviolence in Peace+Conflict Zones Ronni Alexander, Professor, Kobe University (Japan) Oka Hideyuki, An office bureau, Nara Co-op (Japan) Tanaka Saki, Ex - Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteer (Japan) Atsuko Akamatsu, Takamori High School; Keiko Kikuchi, Rikkyo University (Japan) Miki Taguwa, Curator, Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan University Liska Blodgett, Founder, Peace Heroes Museums (USA), Hannah White Naoto Anzai, Secretary General, NPO No More Hibakusha (World Hibakusha Exhibition) Ikuro Anzai, Honorary Director, Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ristumeikan University

Web Exhibitions

INMP 2020 Special Project Ago Shinichi, Director of the Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan University

Conference Evaluation

Evaluation of the 10th International Conference of Museums for Peace

Presentations in Japanese

日本語での発表



 Kayoko Notsu, Shigeru Aoki, Miyuki Endo, The association to pass on the miracles of Fushun,
Kansai branch (JAPAN) Hiroto Hieshima, The Center of the Tokyo Air Raids and War Damage, Japan Tamotu Asakawa, Chairman, Yamanashi Peace Museum, Japan

要旨の日本語版 (Conference Abstracts in Japanese)



[*] For presentations listed with an asterisk [*], only abstracts are included in the archived Conference Proceedings.

[**] Cultural performances in the Welcome/Opening Ceremony are not included in the archived Conference Proceedings.