Index

• Professors
• Purpose of the program
• Fields of Profession for Program Graduates
• Positions Held by Program Graduates
• MA and Ph.D. Theses

Professors

• Program Director: Hideo Yamagata
• Core Professors:
  • Hideo Yamagata (Conflict Resolution, UN Law)
    • http://www.gsid.nagoya-u.ac.jp/global/faculty/members/dicos/yamagata-en.html
  • Yukiko Nishikawa (Conflict and Development)
    • http://www.gsid.nagoya-u.ac.jp/ynishikawa/Welcome%20En.htm
    • http://www.gsid.nagoya-u.ac.jp/global/faculty/members/dicos/nishikawayukiko-en.html
  • Sanae Ito (Poverty Reduction, Social Development)
    • http://kenpro.mynu.jp:8001/Profiles/0019/0001952/prof_e.html
    • http://www2.gsid.nagoya-u.ac.jp/blog/ito/
  • Yuzuru Shimada (Law and Development Studies, Indonesian Law)
    • http://www.gsid.nagoya-u.ac.jp/shimadayuzuru/index.html
    • http://kenpro.mynu.jp:8001/Profiles/0056/0005602/prof_e.html

• Supporting Professor:
  • Hirotsune Kimura (Governance) Retirement is scheduled in March 2012.
    • http://kenpro.mynu.jp:8001/Profiles/0018/0001829/prof_e.html
    • http://www.gsid.nagoya-u.ac.jp/kimura/kimura_homepage/index.html

Purpose of the Program

• The following subjects will be covered: 1) theories and approaches for reconstruction assistance in post-conflict societies, 2) the relationship between conflict and development, 3) vaious phases of development assistance to post-conflict societies, the role of donor sates, international organizations, agencies, NGOs and non-state actors.

• Objectives: to understand basic concepts and questions regarding development assistance and international cooperation in preventing conflicts and in reconstructing post-conflict societies: why conflicts occur, whether or not international community should intervene, what way it should intervene when it approves its intervention, whether or not development assistance enables post-conflict societies to stabilize peace.

• This program is designed for those students and people in general who seek to be engaged in the area of international peace cooperation.

Fields of Profession for Program Graduates

• Project desiners facilitators, and those who implement peace-building projects in such organizations as JICA, JBIC, UNHCR, UNDP, World Bank, UNICEF, UNESCO.
• Those who work for consulting companies which carry out projects for emergency humanitarian assistance, reconstruction and development assistance.
• Research institutes and think-tanks in the field of conflict analysis, investment risk analysis: JETRO, Japan Institute for International Affairs, FASID and etc.
• University professors

Positions Held by Program Graduates

Master’s Program Graduates:

• Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers
• JICE, JICA, and other development assistance agencies
• Toshiba, イビデン, and other coompanies
• 市民フォーラム21, NPO Center
• Marketing analysits in Petroleum companies in Azerbaijan, Kuwait

Doctoral Program Graduates:

• University Professors (lectures, associate professors) : Kassesert University (Thailand), 開南大学（台湾）,University of Columbo (Sri Lanka)

MA and Ph.D. Theses

Recent Master’s Thesis Titles：

• Energy Poverty Eradication in Indonesia’s Remote Rural Areas: An Institutional Analysis on the Governance of Electricity Based Energy Service for the Rural Poor
• Community-Driven Development and Women’s Empowerment in the Reconstruction of Afghanistan: A Case Study of Community Empowerment Programme for Women (CEPW) in Balkh Province
• Rethinking Higher Education in Afghanistan: Social Focus on Education Reform From 2002 to Present
• The Construction of Identity of the Kashmiri Pandits in the Kashmir Conflict (1998 to 2009): A Case Study of the Delhi Pandits’ Perspective on Kashmirivat
• The Impact of UNRWA’s Assitance on Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank: A Study of Aid in Protracted Refugee Situations
• Success of Local Integration of Tajik Refugees in Turkmenistan
• The role of media in peace building in Afghanistan: Promoting legal crops to eradicate poppy
• The Issue of Reservations of Nuclear Weapon States to the Protocol to the Treaty on the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone

Recent Ph.D. Dissertation Titles：

• Thailand’s Domestic Politics and its Foreign Policy-Making:With the Empirical,Study of Chatichai’s Turn the Battlefields in to Marketplaces’ Policy,1988-1991:
• Humanitarian Activities of the UN Peacekeeping Operations in Africa