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【Special Lecture】The nuclear challenge today and tomorrow: Approaching eight decades since nuclear weapons were used in war (Dec. 2, 2024)

2024年11月1日

Special Lecture
The nuclear challenge today and tomorrow: Approaching eight decades since nuclear weapons were used in war

■ Date: December 2, 2024 (Mon)　18:00 pm – 19:30 pm (JST)
■ Venue: Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum Hall (Nagasaki City)
■ Language: English (with simultaneous interpretation)
■ Speaker: Dan Smith, Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

*Online participation is available (Zoom Webinar):
Please register from the here🔗. [Deadline: Nov. 28, 2024]

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the Japan Confederation of A-and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations. This award highlights that the issue of nuclear weapons concerns not only the present but also our future. In a world where tensions between major powers and nuclear arms race are intensifying, how should nations striving for peace and civil society respond?　
In this lecture, Mr. Dan Smith, Director of Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), will provide an insightful explanation of the challenges related to nuclear weapons and peace that the world currently faces, drawing upon his extensive experience and broad expertise.

Mr. Dan Smith has researched and written on security, conflict and peace for four decades. He served four years in the UN Peacebuilding Fund Advisory Group, two as Chair (2010–2011). He was part-time Professor of Peace and Conflict at the University of Manchester from 2014 to 2017. Before taking up his post at SIPRI, he was Secretary General of the London-based peacebuilding NGO, International Alert (2003–2015) and Director of the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (1993–2001).

SIPRI is one of the world’s leading think tanks on peace and security and publishes an annual report on global armaments, military budgets and conflict situations. In that report this year, Director Smith expressed his concern that we are now in one of the most dangerous periods in human history.

■Hosted by PCU-NC Administration Office
■Co-hosted by Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA)

■Contact: PCU-NC Administration Office
Email：pcu_nc★ml.nagasaki-u.ac.jp (Change ★ to @.)

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International Symposium2024 Victims of Nuclear Weapons in Global Contexts: Appealing- “No More Hibakusha” Now (Nov. 30, 2024)

2024年10月29日

International Symposium2024
Victims of Nuclear Weapons in Global Contexts: Appealing- “No More Hibakusha” Now ▶[JPN]

On Saturday, November 30, 2024, The international symposium will be held co-hosted by the Hiroshima Peace Institute (HPI), The Hiroshima Peace Media Center, and RECNA.

■Date: November 30, 2024 13:30-16:30 (JST)

■Venue: International Conference Center Hiroshima, Second Basement (B2F) “Himawari” (1-5 Nakashima-cho, Naka-ku, Hiroshima, JAPAN)

■Capacity: 450 people

■Entrance Fee: No charge *Advance registration is not required.

[Interpretation Provided］

■Hosts: The Hiroshima Peace Institute (HPI), Hiroshima City University (HCU)
The Chugoku Shimbun
The Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition (RECNA), Nagasaki University

■Support: Hiroshima Platform for Peace Studies and Education

■Outline:
This year marks the seventieth anniversary of the Lucky Dragon incident after the Bravo H-Bomb Test at Bikini Atoll, which resulted in another human death caused by nuclear weapons after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This year’s Academy Award winning movie “Oppenheimer” also brought attention towards the Trinity test, which was the first nuclear explosion in human history. The consecutive nuclear testing since the Cold War era by nuclear weapons states knowingly caused calamity through radioactive contaminations, making so-called “Global Hibakusha” victims. This symposium will critically question the proposition that nuclear weapons bear some utility and try to establish ways to strengthen the norm against nuclear weapons use, be it during the wartime or peacetime. Putting narratives of Hiroshima and Global Hibakusha in the same context will help us to find a path towards nuclear abolishment.

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The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize is to be awarded to the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations (Nihon Hidankyo).

2024年10月11日

Words of Congratulations on the Prize

It has been announced that the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize is to be awarded to the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations (Nihon Hidankyo). We offer our sincere congratulations.

For many years, Nihon Hidankyo has persistently called for the abolition of nuclear weapons based on the experiences of the hibakusha. Its activities have helped to raise awareness regarding the inhumanity of nuclear weapons around the world and contributed greatly to the realization of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This recognition of its efforts will surely provide a ray of hope for all those who are working towards a world without nuclear weapons. Today, where the threat of nuclear weapons use is mounting, we must deeply reflect on the significance of Nihon Hidankyo’s message: “Humanity must never again inflict nor suffer the sacrifice and torture we have experienced.” ¹

As a research institute in Japan with the phrase “nuclear weapons abolition” in its name, all of us at RECNA would like to express our heartfelt congratulations upon the conferment of the Nobel Peace Prize to Nihon Hidankyo.

¹ https://www.ne.jp/asahi/hidankyo/nihon/english/about/about1-02.html.

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【Special report No.24】”Introduction: Reducing the Risk of Nuclear Weapons Use in Northeast Asia” （NU-NEA Project）

2024年10月7日

Introduction: Reducing the Risk of Nuclear Weapons Use in Northeast Asia

Shatabhisha Shetty

October 7, 2024

This report is published under a 4.0 International Creative Commons License the terms of which are found here.
This report is simultaneously published by the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network, Nautilus Institute, and the Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA).
It was first published in the Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament.

Acknowledgements: This article was commissioned by the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network.

Abstract

This paper summarises the joint collaborative project between the Nautilus Institute, the Research Center for Nuclear Weapon Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA), the Asia Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN) and the Panel on Peace and Security of Northeast Asia (PSNA) examining cases of nuclear weapons use in a conflict in Northeast Asia by devising and analysing plausible pathways that could lead to the first use of nuclear weapons, and quantitatively estimating the fatalities and health effects of nuclear weapons use. The paper also describes the final year analysis with contributing essays by international experts and recommendations for narrowing the space for nuclear use-case scenarios to arise in the first place through forms of mutual threat reduction (structural risk reduction) and managing within-scenario risks (situational risk reduction) more responsibly if they arise.

Keywords: Nuclear Weapons; Northeast Asia; Korean Peninsula; Arms Control; Nuclear Risk Reduction

Authors’ Profile:

Shatabhisha Shetty is the Executive Director of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN). She is a co-founder of the European Leadership Network (ELN), serving as Deputy Director for over a decade before joining the ELN Executive Board in 2020. She is a project advisory board member of Leicester University’s Third Nuclear Age, assessing strategic conventional weapons and the next revolution in the global nuclear order and sits on the Advisory Committee for Women in International Security-UK (WIIS-UK). Her research interests include nuclear and conventional arms control, disarmament diplomacy, great power politics, and emerging technologies, and she has written and spoken internationally on a range of related issues.

Full text (PDF) is here.

The views represented herein are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the institutional positions.

The page for this project is here.

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3rd Essay Contest Award Ceremony Held

2024年9月25日

3rd Essay Contest Award Ceremony Held 　　[JPN]

The Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA) has selected Grand Prize and Second Prize Award winners in the U-20 (16-20 years old) and U-30 (20-30 years old) categories for the third annual “Opinions on a Nuclear Weapons Free Future” and held an award ceremony as follows.

The two Grand Prize “opinions” were published in full in the September 22, 2024 issue of the Nagasaki Shimbun. (A Japanese article in the electronic edition of the same newspaper)

【 3rd “Opinion” Contest Award Ceremony 】


Group photo of award ceremony attendees		Award winners being interviewed


DATE/TIME：	Saturday, September 21, 2024 　Award Ceremony: 13:00-14:00 　Press Interviews: 14:00-14:30

VENUE：	1st floor, Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University

PROGRAM：	(MC: Keiko Nakamura, Associate Professor, RECNA) 1. Opening Remarks 　　by Prof. Fumihiko Yoshida, Director of RECNA 2. Announcement of Winners and Award Ceremony U-20 Division Announcement of the Second Prize winner, Presentation of Certificate and Plaque 　by Mr. Yuichi Seirai, Chairman of the Selection Committee 　Speech by the Second Prize Winner (Ms. Tomoko Ogawa) Announcement of the Grand Prize Winner, Presentation of Certificate and Plaque 　by Mr. Seirai, Chairman of the Selection Committee 　Speech by the Grand Prize Winner (Mr. Riki Ishiyama) U-30 Division Announcement of the Second Prize winner, Presentation of Certificate and Plaque 　by Mr. Seirai, Chairman of the Selection Committee 　Speech by the Second Prize Winner (Ms. Saki Okamoto) Announcement of the Grand Prize Winner, Presentation of Certificate and Plaque 　by Mr. Seirai, Chairman of the Selection Committee 　Speech by the Grand Prize Winner (Mr. Atsuhito Nishiyama) 3. Comment on the awarded essays 　 by Mr. Seirai, Chairman of the Selection Committee 4. Comments by the other members of the Selection Committee 　 by Mr.Yamada, Ms.Murakami, Ms.Hatakeyama and Ms.Nakamura 5. Group Photography

PRESS Interviews：	Speakers: Mr. Seirai, Award winners Moderator: Prof. Tatsujiro Suzuki, RECNA

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Special Lecture The nuclear challenge today and tomorrow: Approaching eight decades since nuclear weapons were used in war

International Symposium2024 Victims of Nuclear Weapons in Global Contexts: Appealing- “No More Hibakusha” Now ▶[JPN]

3rd Essay Contest Award Ceremony Held [JPN]

Special Lecture
The nuclear challenge today and tomorrow: Approaching eight decades since nuclear weapons were used in war

International Symposium2024
Victims of Nuclear Weapons in Global Contexts: Appealing- “No More Hibakusha” Now ▶[JPN]

3rd Essay Contest Award Ceremony Held 　　[JPN]