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Activism Inside the Asia Pacific Peace Museum in Toronto

The Asia Pacific Peace Museum in Toronto, one of the few museums outside Asia dedicated to World War II in Asia, offers education that encourages critical reflection on war, memory, and peace.

Flora Mei-Ling Chong

사회정의교육재단에서 제작한 위안부 역사 교재

Education To a humane society cherishing the history of marginalized populations – Interview with Sohn Sung-sook, President of the Education for Social Justice Foundation (ESJF)

Sohn Sung-sook, President of the Education for Social Justice Foundation (ESJF)

Editorial Team of Webzine <Kyeol>

[사진 1] 징 윌리엄스 교수(왼쪽)와 필리스 김 대표(오른쪽) ©popcon

Education “Teaching the ‘Comfort Women’ Issue in the U.S. Society: A Global Citizenship Education to Overcome Nation-Centrism”

Professor Jing Williams considers her education on the “Comfort Women” issue as “a process of planting seeds for the future,” recognizing that some of her students may become advocates for women’s human rights.

Jing Williams

Education Hoping for the Publication of an English Collection of Testimonials on ‘Comfort Women’ to Prevent Distortions and Expand Empathy in the International Community

Professor Jing Williams considers her education on the “Comfort Women” issue as “a process of planting seeds for the future,” recognizing that some of her students may become advocates for women’s human rights.

Jing Williams

Current Issue Rohingya Women: Fighting for Education and against Child Marriage

The history of the Rohingya genocide in the world’s largest refugee camp and the hope nurtured by women amid an ongoing struggle for survival.

Lee Yu Kyung

미국 버지니아주 the Fairfax 카운티에 있는 위안부 평화공원에 설치된 기림비 (출처: Mary McCarthy 제공)

Current Issue The supranational nature of the 'comfort women' issue and the ‘glocalization’ of memories, Part 2

Written by Shin Ki-young, Professor at Ochanomizu University, Japan

Shin Ki-young

Culture Art as Witness

What can art accomplish beyond aesthetics? Randy Jayne Rosenberg examines how it can preserve marginalized histories, support survivor testimony, and move audiences from observation toward ethical responsibility.

Randy Jayne Rosenberg

Culture No Longer Silenced!

A review of Unsilenced: Sexual Violence in Conflict, the UK’s first exhibition focusing on the issue of sexual violence during modern and contemporary global conflicts.

Nikolai Johnsen

Historical Memory How Can Perpetrators Bear Responsibility?

Testimony and publishing activities concerning wartime sexual violence and “Comfort Women” carried out by the Association of Returnees from China (Chukiren), which atoned for their perpetrators’ actions in postwar Japanese society.

Kim Su-yong

Education Educating Difficult Histories and the Case of the “Comfort Women”

The Contested Histories Initiative (CHI) is a Europe-based NGO dedicated to studying disputes over historical memorials in public spaces and promoting critical engagement with them. CHI’s Program Director, Paula O’Donohoe, spoke with Kyeol about the organization’s work and its engagement with the “Comfort Women” issue.

Paula O’Donohoe

강간 피해를 알리고 일본 경찰의 2차 가해와 사법제도의 문제점을 고발한 이토 시오리의 책 『Black Box』의 표지

Activism Japan’s Me Too Movement and the ‘Comfort Women’ Issue (Part 1)

Kyung-hee Cho, Assistant Professor, Institute for East Asian Studies, Sungkonghoe University

Kyung-hee Cho

“Changing the Culture That Makes Violence Possible”: Asian Women’s Shelter on Advocacy, Trafficking, Public Awareness, and Global Gender Justice – Interview with Orchid Pusey (2)

Activism “Changing the Culture That Makes Violence Possible”: Interview with Orchid Pusey of Asian Women's Shelter (2)

Asian Women’s Shelter’s executive director shares how the organization began and how it works to serve “not either/or, but all” communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Orchid Pusey

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