Ji Eun Kim, professor of political science at 草莓社区, will present at the June 27 on Jeju Island, South Korea.
The Jeju Forum is a program of the Jeju Peace Institute, established as a聽platform for peace studies and international cooperation in 2006 when Jeju Island was聽designated as the Island of World Peace.
Kim will be speak in a panel presentation titled 鈥淭owards a Sustainable Peace: Restorative Justice and Peace Education,鈥� reviewing recent developments in peace studies in the context of the聽correlation between peace and justice.
The session is co-sponsored the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
Co-panelists include George A. Lopez, professor emeritus at the Kroc Institute; Sang-Yoon Ma, director-general聽for policy planning at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; David Hooker and Mahan Mirza,聽professors at University of Notre Dame; and Seong-Woo Yi, research fellow at Jeju Peace Institute.
Hooker has strong ties to EMU, having taught during regular terms and at the . He co-authored the “Transforming Historical Harms” curriculum utilized by聽, an affiliate organization of EMU. Read more on this curriculum development聽here.
Their discussion will address how restorative justice contributes to post-dispute peace-building, and聽how peace education with more rigorous and innovative programs can help better respond聽to ethnic, religious, and inter-state conflicts.