ICU Professor Giorgio Shani to Deliver Talk at Rutgers University
ICU professor of international relations and Rethinking Peace Studies participant Giorgio Shani is set to deliver a talk tomorrow evening at Rutgers University.
ICU professor of international relations and Rethinking Peace Studies participant Giorgio Shani is set to deliver a talk tomorrow evening at Rutgers University.
The following article was written by Japan ICU Foundation trustee Bill Lesher. Bill will be completing his term as a trustee at the end of this month. His support and guidance over the years has been invaluable, particularly in the area he is most passionate about, interreligious understanding.
US Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy visited ICU on Tuesday, January 27 to meet with ICU students and to plant a dogwood tree as part of the “Friendship Blossoms: Dogwood Tree Initiative,” which was initiated in 2012 during a visit by then Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda to President Obama.
My name is Paul Clark, and I am a four year regular undergraduate student from a small farm in Baltimore, Maryland.
Sometimes small events happen which we know we will vividly remember for the rest of our lives. Such an event happened for me on May 24, 2013, when I found myself in the small circle of a support group for disaster survivors, listening to eight courageous young women share the traumas they had experienced during and after the triple disasters—earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear—in northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011. It was incredibly moving to witness these stories and emotions that had never before been shared. The young women were amazed to learn that others too felt as they did. Immediately, they moved to support each other, in a deepening bond. It was sacred space indeed…