Annual Reconciliation Studies Week (at the end of February)
【Event Information】International Reconciliation Week: International Education & Reconciliation as Peacebuilding
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TEH, Huijia
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PHAM, Thi Lan Huong
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Arauf Aji Harindra Sakti
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CAO Thi Minh Chau
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NGUYEN Viet Du
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Naixin Li
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Rita Z. Nazeer-Ikeda
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Kuroda Kazuo
This online panel session is held as part of International Reconciliation Week and explores international education and reconciliation as practices of peacebuilding.
The session examines how reconciliation can be practiced both institutionally and in everyday life, with particular attention to educational institutions and international student experiences. Panel 1 focuses on educational institutions as sites of reconciliation practice, addressing themes such as inclusive education, religious moderation, and sustainability discourse. Panel 2 highlights international students’ lived experiences, discussing identity formation, intercultural learning, and pathways toward postnational belonging.
We welcome scholars, students, and practitioners interested in education, peacebuilding, and international relations to join this interdisciplinary dialogue.
Date: February 26 (Thursday)
Time: 10 a.m. ~ , JST
Location: Online via Zoom: https://list-waseda-jp.zoom.us/j/91716501879?pwd=RtaKZBAmU3TvDkrGjzLEyXsq6aKtqX.1
Meeting ID: 917 1650 1879
Passcode: 750608
Panel 1: Educational Institutions as Sites of Reconciliation Practice
This panel examines how educational institutions, from inclusive classrooms to religious schools to sustainability-oriented universities, create structural conditions for reconciliation. Presentations explore the role of non-cognitive outcomes in building social harmony, teachers’ implementation of religious moderation policies in diverse Indonesian schools, and Malaysian universities’ engagement with global sustainability agendas as a form of postcolonial reconciliation. Together this panel aims to address following question: What institutional designs, pedagogical practices, and policy frameworks enable education systems to function as everyday reconciliation infrastructure?
Panel 2: International Student Experiences: Identity, Intercultural Learning, and Everyday Reconciliation
This panel centers on internationally mobile students as they navigate identity, history, and belonging across cultural boundaries. Presentations examine intercultural competence development in Chinese language classrooms, Vietnamese students’ everyday reconciliation encounters in former adversary nations, and ASEAN students’ diverse pathways to postnational belonging in Japan. Together, these presentations reveal reconciliation as an embodied, non-linear process that unfolds through sustained cross-cultural contact as well as highlight how individual transformation through educational mobility contributes to broader peacebuilding.