Core Program
Measures for a Peaceful Coexistence of State and Societies with Differing Values
- Research Representative: Ryuichi IDA
- Vice Director, International Institute for Advanced Studies
President, Shiga University. Professor emeritus, Kyoto University
We must ask ourselves what prevents the peaceful coexistence of a diversity of people, societies, and states that have different ways of thinking and values, morals, religions, and other qualities. This working group will consider what measures are required to eliminate the obstacles, and what we have to do to be able to visualize the road to peaceful coexistence. As such, the working group will produce indicators that focus on human-centered values to replace the widely used GDP indicator of economic activity, and create a worldwide network to discuss this issue. Discussions will place emphasis on the perspectives of realizing a recycling, stable economic society that values the planet's limited resources, and creating measures to overcome the differences between values, ethical views, religions, and other factors in order to achieve a peaceful coexistence. While this may seem like an extremely difficult problem to address, humanity has always made efforts to overcome the many difficult problems it has faced through ethics, morals, and religions. Similar issues are already being raised and discussed around the world, so the working group shall first compile the information available in order to gain an overview. By performing a research in Japan, a country that has at its foundation a spirit of tolerance, harmony, and mutual benefit, we can provide ideas and proposals from a unique perspective and can lead this kind of discussion around the world.
MembersAs of Aug 01, 2017
Ryuichi IDA | Vice Director, International Institute for Advanced Studies President, Shiga University. Professor emeritus, Kyoto University |
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Shin-ichi AGO | Professor, Ritsumeikan University |
Monte CASSIM | Professor, Ritsumeikan University |
Akiko FUKUSHIMA | Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University |
Daisaku HIGASHI | Associate Professor, Sophia University |
Toshiya HOSHINO | Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations |
Akira KOHSAKA | Professor, Kwansei Gakuin University |
Naoko MAEDA | Associate Professor, Kyoto Women’s University |
Yoichi MINE | Professor, Doshisha University |
Toshiki MOGAMI | Professor, Waseda University |
Masanori NAITO | Professor, Doshisha University |
Hiroshi NAKANISHI | Professor, Kyoto University |
Hisae NAKANISHI | Professor, Doshisha University |
Ryo OSHIBA | Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University |
Modjtaba SADRIA | Director, Thinktank for knowledge excellence |