Isezaki Kenji

Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Graduate School of Global Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Began his career in international development in Sierra Leone near the outbreak of the civil war and spent a total of 10 years as an aid worker in Africa. After serving as district administrator under the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), returned to help build the peace in Sierra Leone as chief of the UN mission's DDR (disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration) Coordination Section. Later served as special representative of the Japanese Government for DDR in Afghanistan. Author of Terorisuto wa Nihon no "nani" o mite iru no ka (What Are Terrorists Eyeing in Japan?), Shin kokubōron: kyūjō mo Amerika mo Nihon o mamorenai (National Defense Reconsidered: Neither Article 9 nor America Can Protect Japan), and other works.

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Dec 5, 2016