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Welcome to the Hiroshima - ICAN Academy! ICAN and the Hiroshima Prefecture are very excited to provide what we sincerely hope will be an enriching and inspirational learning experience for you.
The ICAN team, including the main course operators from ICAN partner Peace Boat, are at your service for any questions, comments or concerns that you have throughout the course. Please don't hesitate to get in touch!
The following are the online learning materials for the Hiroshima-ICAN Academy on Nuclear Weapons and Global Security 2021. Those who take the Open Learning Course are required to read and watch them before completing the assignments.
Those who applied and are selected as Academy 2021 participants are required to read and watch them as well as the additional set of materials linked here, in advance of the webinars.
Hiroshima - ICAN Academy on Nuclear Weapons and Global Security
2021
Online Learning Materials
1. The First Series of the Online Peace Course by Hiroshima Prefecture
1. World War II and Nuclear Weapons - Impact on International Relations
2. The Reality of the Atomic Bombing Part 1 - Interview with the Atomic Bomb Survivor
3. The Reality of the Atomic Bombing Part 2 - Interview with the Atomic Bomb Survivor
4. The Rise of the Atomic Bomb Ban Movement and the Reality of International Politics
2. Lee Jongkeun, “A Korean Hibakusha's Message for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons”, Peace Boat, 2018
3. International Committee of the Red Cross x Kurzgesagt, “What if We Nuke a City?”, Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell, 2019
4. Álvaro Orús (Director) and Tony Robinson, “The beginning of the end of nuclear weapons”, Pressenza International Press Agency, 2019
5. International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), “A price too high: Rethinking nuclear weapons in light of their human cost”, International Review of the Red Cross, 2016
6. Joint Communique to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), 2020
7. Alicia Sanders-Zakre and Beatrice Fihn, “Implementation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: Hopes and Expectations for the Future”, Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament (2021)
8. ICAN, “Complicit: 2020 Global Nuclear Weapons Spending” (2021)
9. Hiroshima and Nagasaki Peace Declarations
1. Read the Hiroshima Peace Declaration
2. Watch a video on the Hiroshima Peace Declaration
3. Read the Nagasaki Peace Declaration
Suggested reading
The following report is a useful reference of recent developments of nuclear disarmament, nonproliferation and nuclear security: “ Hiroshima Report 2021 – Evaluation and Achievement in Nuclear Disarmament, N on-Proliferation, and Nuclear Security in 2020 ” Hiroshima Prefecture and Japan Institute of International Affairs Center for Disarmament, Science and Technology (2021)
Note
Those who applied and are selected as Academy 2021 participants are required to read and watch the above as well as the additional set of materials linked here, in advance of the webinars.