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立命館大学
国際関係学部事務室

Short Report of Open Seminar (6/30/2016):

Dr. Catharine Gegout, Lecturer, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, UK.

This seminar was held in Ritsumeikan University - Kinugasa Campus, on June 30, 2016, hosted by Ritsumeikan University's Graduate School of International Relations, Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO), Approximately 30 participants attended the seminar.

This seminar examined how the security cooperation has been conducted between the EU and China on the issue of Africa’s security. Although there has been pessimism as China and EU possess a different and a diverse perspective on security issues, this seminar argued that, in the context of Africa, China and EU have mutual interests both in economy and security architect. Furthermore, this seminar was also accentuated the most current situation of the so-called Brexit as the one of the EU’s backbone and how this Brexit affected the EU performance in the region.

Short Report of Open Seminar (6/23/2016): 

Speaker: Jung-Ho KIM 

Visiting Professor, College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University

Commentator: Ryoji NAKAGAWA, 

Professor, College of International Relations. Ritsumeikan University.

This seminar was to identify what lead to child labor in Cocoa households in Ghana. Applying quantitative methods, the study exposed that Cocoa households in the country have affected the extent of children’s choice between education, labor, and both. This study provided model and policy recommendation to bridge between children’s education and labor in contemporary Cocoa household industry in Ghana. .  

This seminar was held in Ritsumeikan University - Kinugasa Campus, on June 23, 2016, hosted by Ritsumeikan University's College of International Relations and Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO). Approximately 30 participants attended the seminar.

Short Report of Open Seminar (6/16/2016):

Speaker: Professor T.V. Paul. James McGill Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at McGill University, Montreal, Canada; and a Visiting Professor at the Graduate School International Relations, Ritsumeikan University.

This seminar was to identify the so-called a “Rising Powers” in world politics and how this situation affects to International order. Since IR theory has been notoriously weak in explaining peaceful change or how to achieve it, especially to respond the rising world power, this seminar explored issues such as grand strategies of peaceful change and its constraining factors to manage the emerging power transition. Some case studies of the rising power of China and India were also exposed.

This seminar was held in Ritsumeikan University - Kinugasa Campus, on June 16, 2016, hosted by Ritsumeikan University's Graduate School of International Relations, Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO), and Institute of International Relations. Ritsumeikan University. Approximately 60 participants attended the seminar.

Short Report of Open Seminar (6/9/2016):

West Papua Case

Guest Speaker: Nino Viartasiwi, Ph.D. candidate, Graduate school International Relations,

Ritsumeikan University

This seminar is about to critically identify of what conflicts are happening in West Papua and describe how to conduct research in this conflicted area. For the first, the seminar at a glance learn the conflicts beyond separatism that has been following democratization after the fall of Suharto and how the conflicts have been exploited and sustained by the elite predators. For the later, the presenter underlines the challenges and opportunities to do fieldwork and to understand the nature of the conflict in West Papua.

This seminar was held in Ritsumeikan University Kinugasa Campus, on June 9, 2016, hosted by Ritsumeikan University's Graduate School of International Relations, the Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO), Approximately 20 participants attended the workshop.

Short Report of Open Seminar (6/2/2016):

Guest Speaker: Marie TAKETANI, Ph.D. candidate, Graduate school of Global Studies, Doshisha University.

This seminar is about the conflicts that affected the education in Mali. This seminar is to reexamine the so-called “the problem of the North” by analyzing obstacles and distortions in the system for integration especially education, which new Malian government experienced after independent.  The facts show that the principal problem of the education in the North of the country after the conflict is the evolving gap of the quality of the destruction of education structures and equipment. Furthermore, droughts, lack of accessibility, literacy rate, and education inequality have created the impediments for the post conflict society in the North of the country.

This seminar was held in Ritsumeikan University Kinugasa Campus, on June 2, 2016, hosted by Ritsumeikan University's Graduate School of International Relations, the Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO), Approximately 25 participants attended the workshop.

Short Report of Special Lecture (6/4/2016):

Guest Speaker: Sachiko ISHIKAWA, Senior Advisor, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

This lecture is to share thoughts of peacebuilding through development, to understand Japan’s policy and practice of peacebuilding assistance (Japan’s ODA), and to examine its application in the case of Mindanao, The Philippines. From this lecture some notes are taken as follows: First, Japan’s ODA practice has gradually been converging with the advocated idea of human security that expanded phases of action, improved integration of different sectors and modalities, and shifted the level of assistance from national to sub-national government and community level. Secondly, Mindanao is an example of the shift as mentioned earlier with the idea of empowering local communities both economically and politically. Finally, the challenge continues for Japan’s ODA, especially JICA’s practice on the ground, to see how to play a catalytic role to promote people-centric development.

This seminar was held in Ritsumeikan University Kinugasa Campus, on June 4, 2016, hosted by Ritsumeikan University's Graduate School of International Relations, the Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO), and Institute of International Relations and Area Studies, Ritsumeikan University. Approximately 20 participants attended the lecture.

6月3日(金)、4（土）に、国際関係研究科では、英語基準で行う授業「Professional Training」の一環として、地方行政を学ぶ綾部市へのフィールドトリップを実施しました。

 綾部市役所では、学生たちは山崎善也市長から綾部市の現状の人口分布、高齢化の現状についての説明を聞き、日本の地方市町村が抱える課題について学びました。また今後の展望として前時代的でない新しい生き方、暮らし方としての地方移住についての可能性について熱く話されました。

 また、企業、産業の生産現場視察として、京セラ、グンゼ記念館を訪問しました。

京セラ綾部工場では、技術者の方から直々に説明を受け、Organic Package IC基板生産現場を見学しました。

グンゼ記念館では創業者の想いとそれを受け継ぎ、地元に根ざしつつも国際企業となった企業哲学を学びました。

 また伝統工芸を学ぶ一環として黒谷和紙工芸の里を訪問し、和紙の製造工程を見学するだけでなく、実際に院生全員が和紙すきに挑戦しました。

それぞれの学生が実体験を通じて日本の地方行政、企業、歴史を垣間見れる大変貴重な機会になりました。

綾部市: http://www.city.ayabe.lg.jp/

京セラ:http://www.kyocera.co.jp/company/index.html

グンゼ記念館:http://www.gunze.co.jp/gunzehakubutu/memorial/

Guest Speaker: Prof. Jeff Kingston, Professor of Asian Studies, Japan Campus, Temple University.

This lecture was held in Ritsumeikan University Kinugasa Campus, on May 19, 2016, hosted by Ritsumeikan University's Graduate School of International Relations, the Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO), and Institute of International Relations and Area Studies, Ritsumeikan University. Approximately 55 participants attended the lecture.

This open lecture elaborates the contemporary Japan under Prime Minister Abe, which may have both advantages and disadvantages for Japan’s politico-economy domestically and internationally. Professor Kingston figures out some aspects called: “Abe-Euphoria,”  “Abenomics,”  “Abegedon,” ”Abenigma,” and “Abenesia.”   In short, this lecture has opened up the understanding of contemporary Japan and forecasted the dynamic of Japan in the near future.

Guest Speaker: Daisuke Madokoro, Research Associate of International Relations, Graduate School of Law, Kobe University

The workshop was held in Ritsumeikan University Kinugasa Campus, on May 12, 2016, hosted by Ritsumeikan University's Graduate School of International Relations and the Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO). Approximately 20 participants attended the workshop.

The seminar tries to answer the fundamental question of where the norms come from. This seminar spotlights the norm emergence process by analyzing the role of international commissions as norm entrepreneurs, with the case study of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, which proposed a normative idea of responsibility to protect (R2P) in 2001. Some notes can be highlighted as follows: first, contents of the R2P norm were not given but rather strategically created through interactions; second, the R2P norm served the function of transformation and reconciliation. Finally, in reality, strategic norm creation should yield in-depth insight into how norm entrepreneurs struggle to stimulate a normative change.

立命館大学 国際関係学部・国際関係研究科は 2016年5 月 3 日（火）にダゴン大学（ミャンマー連邦共和国）と包括協力協定を締結しました。

今後は、立命館大学 国際関係学部・国際関係研究科とダゴン大学が、国際関係学を軸にした共同研究、研究者交流、教員・学生交換などを進めていきます。今回の包括協力協定は、立命館大学にとってミャンマーの大学とは共に初めての協力協定を締結することとなります。

これまで立命館大学の教員がダゴン大学を訪問し、ダゴン大学の国際関係学部をはじめとする教員や学生と緊密な交流を行っており、例えば、ダゴン大学からのミャンマー人留学生の受け入れや、両大学の学生も参加した日緬学生会議がIDFC（International Development Field Camp for Myanmar and Japan Youth Leaders）により開催されました。

今般の両大学間の研究・教育面における協力関係について、今後の発展可能性を協議した結果、このような連携を一層強化するため、立命館大学国際関係学部・国際関係研究科とダゴン大学との協力協定を締結するに至りました。

ミャンマーは2011年の民政移管や先の大統領選挙を境に大きく変化し、急速な経済発展を遂げようとしています。そのような中、立命館大学　国際関係学部・国際関係研究科ではミャンマーを連携重点強化地域の一つとして考えおり、今回の協定によって、両者の産官学交流の進展に寄与でき、研究、教育への様々な波及効果が見込まれます。立命館大学　国際関係学部・国際関係研究科は、今後もミャンマーを含む東南アジア地域との連携協力を更に積極的に展開していく予定です。

＜ダゴン大学（Dagon University）＞

ヤンゴン市郊外に位置する、国際関係学部を含む計21のDepartmentから成り（人文社会系12、自然科学系9）、54,000名を超える学生が学ぶミャンマー最大級の国立大学である（通信教育課程の学生が約32,000名）。教員は1067名（内442名がPh.D取得）、職員は594名である。設立は1993年である。