KINHIDE Mushakoji

QWD00105@nifty.ne.jp

A reputed Japanese authority on international affairs and a lifelong peace advocate, Mushakoji has been on the Board of several organizations, among them, the Japanese Peace Studies Association and the International Peace Research Association. He teaches in Ferris University Japan and is Secretary General of the International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR).

Formerly the Vice-Rector of the Regional and Global Studies Division of the United Nations University for 13 years, Mushakoji is also former Director of the Institute of International Relations which he founded in 1969 at the Sophia University in Tokyo.

He is currently a Board Member of the Asian Cultural Forum on Development (ACFOD), the UN Voluntary Fund for Technical Assistance in the Field of Human Rights, the President of the Asia-Pacific Human Rights Information Centre (Hu-Rights Osaka) and the International Peace Centre in Osaka (Peace Osaka).

In the academic field, Mushakoji is a Professor in the Department of International Relations of the Chubu University and the Director of the Chubu Institute of Advanced Studies.

He has published books and articles in Japanese and English on a variety of issues at the local and international level. His more recent contributions are -Nihon to Islam Sekai (Japan and the Islamic World) in the publication Sekai-shi no Shiten kara (What is Islam: from an Historical Perspective, Islam) 2002, pp. 98 - 108 and Nihon wa Sekai no tame ni Nani ga Dekiru ka - Wa - no Sai-Kaishaku ni yoru Sekai no Nihon-ka no Kokufuku (How can Japan contribute to the world: Re-interpreting 'wa' to overcome the Japanisation of the World) in the book
Nihon no Katachi (A New Shape for Japan), 2002, pp. 186 - 205 and An Introduction to Peace Research, Japanese Foreign Policy in a Multi-Polar World and Global Issues and Interparadigmatic Dialogue - Essays on Multi-polar Politics.He has written extensively on peace and security, racism and discrimination, patriarchal democracy, trafficking of women and the sex industry, cultural development and international politics among others.

Mushakoji was ACF Chair and a member of the ARENA Executive Board, 1994 - 1997. He is currently a member of the Editorial Committee