[平和研究所]福島県フィールドトリップ説明会開催のご案内（2024年9月12日）

ICU平和研究所（PRI）では、10月18日～20日に福島県へのフィールドトリップ「Memory and Regeneration: Fukushima and the Nuclear Disaster」開催を予定しております。以下の通りご案内させていただきます。

Background
The PRI has conducted an annual research field trip to bring ICU students into contact with people who can engage them in productive dialogue about peace-and-conflict-related issues. For the past two years, the PRI has conducted a domestic field trip to the areas of Fukushima affected by the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster. These field trips have been successful as a means of introducing ICU students (particularly international students and OYRs) to the challenges of regeneration in the former disaster area.

The PRI would like to make the same field trip in October 2024. The objectives of the field trip have now become firmly established in two major areas, beneficial to the students and to the former disaster area in Fukushima: (1) to increase student awareness of the March 2011 disaster, and to encourage in-person research into the nuclear disaster and ongoing regeneration in Fukushima; (2) to support the people who have returned to the former disaster area through friendship, memory, education, and economic support (tourism).

Objectives
The project will facilitate ICU students interested in Peace Studies and other fields (Politics and International Relations, Environmental Studies, Natural Sciences, Humanities, Sociology, Media and Communication, and others) to visit towns in the Fukushima former nuclear exclusion zone and to meet residents, reconstruction workers, activists, artists, etc. Students will use their firsthand experiences of observations and discussions with Fukushima residents and workers to deepen and reassess their understanding on a range of environmental and political issues including nuclear fission power; earthquake and natural disaster responses; Japanese local and national government policy; agriculture, fisheries, and food safety; and education on natural and human-made disasters (Dunning, 2008; Yergin, 2012).

ご参加希望の方へ

本フィールドトリップに関する費用及び旅程に関する説明会を以下の通り開催いたします。ご参加希望の方は必ずご出席ください。日程上、参加が難しい方はicupri@icu.ac.jpまでご連絡ください。

日程：9月12日（木）

時間：12：50～13：40

開催方法：対面

場所：サイエンスホールE101（SH-E101）

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説明会に関するご質問等はicupri@icu.ac.jpにご連絡ください。

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