RESEARCH

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Research Fields

Research Fields

Research Fields

Centered on Peace Studies, Reconciliation Studies, and Healing Studies, the Center is an interdisciplinary research institution that studies justice, human rights, and memory politics; Integral Peace; cosmopolitanism; and East Asia and the global order.

By analyzing the structures of historical violence and collective trauma and reinterpreting the case of the Korean Peninsula in global comparative perspective, we aim to build universal models of peace, reconciliation, and healing.

Six research fields
  1. Layers of barbed wire against a sunset sky
    • Research on processes of peacebuilding in the aftermath of war, division, the Cold War, and structural violence
    • Comparative research on peace leadership worldwide
  2. A black-and-white photograph of many hands stacked together
    • Research on mechanisms of social reconciliation in the aftermath of large-scale human rights violations, state violence, and collective trauma
    • Comparative analysis of truth-finding, accountability, apology, reparations, and memory politics
  3. A dark black-and-white photograph of two people holding hands
    • Analysis of trauma and recovery processes at the individual, collective, and societal levels
    • Research on social healing that links medicine, psychiatry, psychology, and the social sciences
    • Extending healing beyond individual treatment to a task for social institutions and policy
  4. People holding candles at a nighttime vigil
    • Dealing with the past, transitional justice, and questions of accountability and justice
    • Analysis of human rights discourse, state violence, and the persistence of colonial and Cold War legacies
    • Research on the politicization of memory and the formation of commemorative, memorial, and historical narratives
    • Research on links with the UN human rights system and international norms
  5. A wooden relief map of East Asia and China
    • Analysis of the conditions for peace in East Asia amid US–China rivalry and the world order
    • Research on democratic backsliding, hegemonic competition, and the tension between security and peace
    • Research from the perspective of global citizenship
  6. A research desk with books, notes, and a laptop
    • Building a convergent research platform that spans the humanities, social sciences, medicine, theology, and law
    • Practice-oriented research and education through academic conferences, seminars, and commissioned research
Layers of barbed wire against a sunset sky A black-and-white photograph of many hands stacked together A dark black-and-white photograph of two people holding hands People holding candles at a nighttime vigil A wooden relief map of East Asia and China A research desk with books, notes, and a laptop

Peace Studies

  • Research on processes of peacebuilding in the aftermath of war, division, the Cold War, and structural violence
  • Comparative research on peace leadership worldwide

Reconciliation Studies

  • Research on mechanisms of social reconciliation in the aftermath of large-scale human rights violations, state violence, and collective trauma
  • Comparative analysis of truth-finding, accountability, apology, reparations, and memory politics

Healing Studies

  • Analysis of trauma and recovery processes at the individual, collective, and societal levels
  • Research on social healing that links medicine, psychiatry, psychology, and the social sciences
  • Extending healing beyond individual treatment to a task for social institutions and policy

Justice, Human Rights & Memory Politics

  • Dealing with the past, transitional justice, and questions of accountability and justice
  • Analysis of human rights discourse, state violence, and the persistence of colonial and Cold War legacies
  • Research on the politicization of memory and the formation of commemorative, memorial, and historical narratives
  • Research on links with the UN human rights system and international norms

Global Order & East Asia

  • Analysis of the conditions for peace in East Asia amid US–China rivalry and the world order
  • Research on democratic backsliding, hegemonic competition, and the tension between security and peace
  • Research from the perspective of global citizenship

Interdisciplinary Research

  • Building a convergent research platform that spans the humanities, social sciences, medicine, theology, and law
  • Practice-oriented research and education through academic conferences, seminars, and commissioned research