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JICA Held a Lecture on History of Peace Building in Japan as a Follow-up Cooperation for the Training for Sudanese


On the 10th September, Japanese Professor Hideaki Shinoda from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies held a peace building lecture at University of Khartoum to strengthen the partner relation between Sudan and Japan on the process of nation building. Professor Shinoda’s visit stressed Japan’s commitment to providing Sudanese specialists with professional training and capacity development. His lecture highlighted the experience of Japan in peace building by using lessons tackling the problems of nation state building.



Every year since 2005, JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) has accepted 236 Sudanese in total, in the last fiscal year 89 people from various fields, such as agriculture, water management and environment, and he sent them to Japan for specialist training. Trainees spent up to 5 months studying in Japan before returning to Sudan to share and put their skills into practice.



Professor Shinoda’s lecture was held as a part of a follow-up cooperation for the five participants of the training and the dialogue program ‘Development of Victim Assistance System for Victims of Wars and Armed Conflicts’. This lecture was opened to other specialists in peace building to share the knowledge widely.



Mr. Mozamil, a Sudanese participant to the JICA training who works in National Mine Action Center, said “This training and the discussing with other participants from various countries stimulated my motivation and helped me to gain knowledge for peace building. I would like to contribute to the comprehensive development involving the victims of the wars and spread the peace building process to the entire country.”



Professor Shinoda said “There are some similarities between Japanese and Sudanese history. Japan desired to make a nation state with long-term peace, and experienced a very difficult state building process until peace was achieved. I hope the introduction of the Japanese experience becomes an opportunity to stimulate Sudanese people’s ideas”.



By Press Release, 13 hours 21 minutes ago