ASF08001 Environment for Peace

Hiroshima University Syllabus

Japanese

Academic Year 2024Year School/Graduate School School of Integrated Arts and Sciences Department of Integrated Arts and Sciences

Lecture Code ASF08001 Subject Classification Specialized Education

Subject Name 環境と平和論

Subject Name
（Katakana）カンキョウトヘイワロン

Subject Name in
English Environment for Peace

Instructor NISHI KAYO,NISHI KAYO

Instructor
(Katakana) ニシ　カヨ,ニシ　カヨ

Campus Higashi-Hiroshima Semester/Term 2nd-Year,  Second Semester,  Intensive

Days, Periods, and Classrooms (Int) Inte：IAS J305

Lesson Style Lecture Lesson Style
(More Details) 　

Lecture and Discussion

Credits 2.0 Class Hours/Week 　 Language of Instruction J : Japanese

Course Level 3 : Undergraduate High-Intermediate

Course Area（Area） 24 : Social Sciences

Course Area（Discipline） 05 : Sociology

Eligible Students

Keywords DG_10、poverty, environmental issues, neoliberalism, structural violence

Special Subject for Teacher Education 　 Special Subject 　

Class Status
within Educational
Program
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students) Students will understand challenges that have been brought about by modern social systems.  They will also learn view points to analyze Japan and its society in the context of international politics through revisiting such ideologies as freedom and peace.
Criterion referenced
Evaluation
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students) Integrated Arts and Sciences
（Knowledge and Understanding）
・The knowledge and understanding  to fully recognize the mutual relations and their importance among individual academic diciplines.

Class Objectives
/Class Outline Globalization has brought about such serious issues as deepening gaps between the rich and the poor and irreversible environmental destruction.  In terms of Peace Studies, they are representing violence “built into the structure” of modern world.  Throughout the course, students will learn the modern world systems and issues brought about by more recent globalization based on neoliberalism.  Towards the end of the course, they will discuss and make a presentation on sustainable interaction between human and environment.

Class Schedule 1. History of Modern Society 1〔modern state, industrial revolution〕
2. History of Modern Society 2〔the Second World War,the Four Freedoms, the United Nations〕
3. Peace and Developmentalism 1〔modernization of the Third World〕
4. Peace and Developmentalism 2〔Bretton Woods system〕
5. Development of the South 〔neoliberalism, Washington Consensus, sustainable development〕
6. Structural Violence ---Case 1:Bangladesh---〔Structural Adjustment Program〕
7. Video【BS世界のドキュメンタリー『シリーズ・グローバル化の影でー労働現場からの告発　バングラデシュー』 (Borgen Production/Heinemann Media, 2008)】〔Bangladesh〕
8. Structural Violence ---Case 2:Nuclear Development---〔National Security, United Nations Trust Territory of Pacific Islands, Operation Crossroads, Radioactive contamination〕
9. Video【NHKスペシャル『シリーズ原子力（４）地球核汚染・被爆国日本の視点』（1995）】〔Marshall Islands〕
10. Structural Violence ---Case 3:Nuclear Power---〔内部被ばく問題〕
11. Video【ETV特集『原発事故への道程　前編　置き去りにされた慎重論』（2011）】〔History of Nuclear Power Introduction to Japan, myth of nuclear power safety〕
12.Video【ETV特集『アメリカから見た福島原発事故』】〔2011 Accident of Fukushima Dai-ichi Atomic Power Plant〕
13. Group Discussion on neoliberal developmentalism and sustainable relationship between men and environment.
14. Group Presentation
15. Final Report

Text/Reference
Books,etc. Galtung, Johan. “Violence, Peace, and Peace Research,” Journal of Peace Research, Vol.6, No. 3 (Sage Publications, 1969), pp. 167-191.
郭洋春 eds.『環境平和学―サブシステンスの危機にどう立ち向かうか－』（法律文化社, 2005）

PC or AV used in
Class,etc. 　

(More Details) DVD, bring your PC to the class

Learning techniques to be incorporated 　

Suggestions on
Preparation and
Review 1. Understand modernity of scientific technologies.
2. Learn history of aids to developing countries after the Second World War.
3. Compare and learn the differences between the notion of “peace” in traditional international politics and that in peace studies.
4. Learn the notion of structural violence advocated by Johan Galtung.
5. Understand neoliberalism which constitutes today’s economic paradigm as well as learn the international discussion on sustainable development.
6. Drawing on the case of Bangladesh, learn neoliberal ways of modernization and analyze their negative impacts on the developing countries.
7. Watch a TV program on Bangladesh.
8. Consider the modernity of nuclear technology.
9. Watch a TV program on the Operation Crossroads carried out by the United States government in 1946 and consider structural violence in developing nuclear weapons.
10. Consider the modernity of nuclear power technology.
11. Learn the historical process of constructing the Fukushima dai-ichi nuclear power plant and looks into the ways in which “safety myth” of nuclear power technology was left behind among politicians and engineers in Japan.
12. Watch a TV program which documents that despite some of the American engineers in charge of the construction of the Fukushima dai-ichi nuclear power plant in the mid-1960s have questioned the power plant’s “safety,” their argument was ignored.
13. Students discuss modernity of nuclear power and the reason of Japan’s introduction of it.  In so doing, they also consider how men should interact with environment.
14. Group presentations.
15. Submit the final report.

Requirements

Grading Method Class Participation 10%, Group Discussion 30%, Final Report 60%

Practical Experience Experienced

Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it Having been an aid officer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan and United Nations Development Program, the lecturer would discuss sustainability issues in modern society.

Message Bring your PC

Other Students scheduled to graduate in March 2025 are not eligible to enroll.

Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes.
Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching.

Academic Year	2024Year	School/Graduate School	School of Integrated Arts and Sciences Department of Integrated Arts and Sciences
Lecture Code	ASF08001	Subject Classification	Specialized Education
Subject Name	環境と平和論
Subject Name （Katakana）	カンキョウトヘイワロン
Subject Name in English	Environment for Peace
Instructor	NISHI KAYO,NISHI KAYO
Instructor (Katakana)	ニシ　カヨ,ニシ　カヨ
Campus	Higashi-Hiroshima	Semester/Term	2nd-Year, Second Semester, Intensive
Days, Periods, and Classrooms	(Int) Inte：IAS J305
Lesson Style	Lecture	Lesson Style (More Details)
Lecture and Discussion
Credits	2.0	Class Hours/Week		Language of Instruction	J : Japanese
Course Level	3 : Undergraduate High-Intermediate
Course Area（Area）	24 : Social Sciences
Course Area（Discipline）	05 : Sociology
Eligible Students
Keywords	DG_10、poverty, environmental issues, neoliberalism, structural violence
Special Subject for Teacher Education		Special Subject
Class Status within Educational Program (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)	Students will understand challenges that have been brought about by modern social systems. They will also learn view points to analyze Japan and its society in the context of international politics through revisiting such ideologies as freedom and peace.
Criterion referenced Evaluation (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)	Integrated Arts and Sciences （Knowledge and Understanding）・The knowledge and understanding to fully recognize the mutual relations and their importance among individual academic diciplines.
Class Objectives /Class Outline	Globalization has brought about such serious issues as deepening gaps between the rich and the poor and irreversible environmental destruction. In terms of Peace Studies, they are representing violence “built into the structure” of modern world. Throughout the course, students will learn the modern world systems and issues brought about by more recent globalization based on neoliberalism. Towards the end of the course, they will discuss and make a presentation on sustainable interaction between human and environment.
Class Schedule	1. History of Modern Society 1〔modern state, industrial revolution〕 2. History of Modern Society 2〔the Second World War,the Four Freedoms, the United Nations〕 3. Peace and Developmentalism 1〔modernization of the Third World〕 4. Peace and Developmentalism 2〔Bretton Woods system〕 5. Development of the South 〔neoliberalism, Washington Consensus, sustainable development〕 6. Structural Violence ---Case 1:Bangladesh---〔Structural Adjustment Program〕 7. Video【BS世界のドキュメンタリー『シリーズ・グローバル化の影でー労働現場からの告発　バングラデシュー』 (Borgen Production/Heinemann Media, 2008)】〔Bangladesh〕 8. Structural Violence ---Case 2:Nuclear Development---〔National Security, United Nations Trust Territory of Pacific Islands, Operation Crossroads, Radioactive contamination〕 9. Video【NHKスペシャル『シリーズ原子力（４）地球核汚染・被爆国日本の視点』（1995）】〔Marshall Islands〕 10. Structural Violence ---Case 3:Nuclear Power---〔内部被ばく問題〕 11. Video【ETV特集『原発事故への道程　前編　置き去りにされた慎重論』（2011）】〔History of Nuclear Power Introduction to Japan, myth of nuclear power safety〕 12.Video【ETV特集『アメリカから見た福島原発事故』】〔2011 Accident of Fukushima Dai-ichi Atomic Power Plant〕 13. Group Discussion on neoliberal developmentalism and sustainable relationship between men and environment. 14. Group Presentation 15. Final Report
Text/Reference Books,etc.	Galtung, Johan. “Violence, Peace, and Peace Research,” Journal of Peace Research, Vol.6, No. 3 (Sage Publications, 1969), pp. 167-191. 郭洋春 eds.『環境平和学―サブシステンスの危機にどう立ち向かうか－』（法律文化社, 2005）
PC or AV used in Class,etc.
(More Details)	DVD, bring your PC to the class
Learning techniques to be incorporated
Suggestions on Preparation and Review	1. Understand modernity of scientific technologies. 2. Learn history of aids to developing countries after the Second World War. 3. Compare and learn the differences between the notion of “peace” in traditional international politics and that in peace studies. 4. Learn the notion of structural violence advocated by Johan Galtung. 5. Understand neoliberalism which constitutes today’s economic paradigm as well as learn the international discussion on sustainable development. 6. Drawing on the case of Bangladesh, learn neoliberal ways of modernization and analyze their negative impacts on the developing countries. 7. Watch a TV program on Bangladesh. 8. Consider the modernity of nuclear technology. 9. Watch a TV program on the Operation Crossroads carried out by the United States government in 1946 and consider structural violence in developing nuclear weapons. 10. Consider the modernity of nuclear power technology. 11. Learn the historical process of constructing the Fukushima dai-ichi nuclear power plant and looks into the ways in which “safety myth” of nuclear power technology was left behind among politicians and engineers in Japan. 12. Watch a TV program which documents that despite some of the American engineers in charge of the construction of the Fukushima dai-ichi nuclear power plant in the mid-1960s have questioned the power plant’s “safety,” their argument was ignored. 13. Students discuss modernity of nuclear power and the reason of Japan’s introduction of it. In so doing, they also consider how men should interact with environment. 14. Group presentations. 15. Submit the final report.
Requirements
Grading Method	Class Participation 10%, Group Discussion 30%, Final Report 60%
Practical Experience	Experienced
Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it	Having been an aid officer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan and United Nations Development Program, the lecturer would discuss sustainability issues in modern society.
Message	Bring your PC
Other	Students scheduled to graduate in March 2025 are not eligible to enroll.
Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes. Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching.

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