Kyoto University of the Arts
Kyoto Peacebuilding Center

At TEDxICU’s main event “ORBIT,” held at International Christian University (ICU) on December 20, 2025, Mr. Sukehiro Hasegawa—Special Professor at Kyoto University of the Arts and Vice Chair of the United Nations Association of Japan—delivered a talk arguing that the root causes of interstate war lie in today’s Westphalian international system. Hasegawa stated that the UN, as it operates today, is often shaped by the preferences of a small number of powerful states—what he de

ACUNS President Franz Baumann says China dominates the world’s clean energy industry while being by far the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter. While China is still far below those of the U.S. and many other OECD countries in terms of per capita installations, China added in the past six months twice as much solar capacity to its grid as Germany did in the past 25 years. The number of turbine installations in China is now almost three times that of the United States. In a

Professor Toshiya Hoshino, President of the Japan Association of United Nations Studies, contributed a book review to the association’s journal Kokuren Kenkyu No. 26, The United Nations and Order Conceptions (pp. 153–157), reviewing Vice President Sukehiro Hasegawa’s book New Challenges in UN Peacebuilding (Soseisha, 2023). Hoshino comments on Hasegawa’s analysis of UN peacebuilding and Security Council reform from both practitioners’ and scholars’ perspectives. He also discu

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations University, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan hosted a reception attended by Mr. Yasushi Akashi ( Honorary Chair ), Dr. Sukehiro Hasegawa ( Chair of the Council ), Ambassador Tadamichi Yamamoto ( Councilor ), and Professor Miki Sugimura ( Councilor ). (4/12/2025)

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