Peace Education: Perspectives from Japan and Poland. Peace Education Miniprints No. 22.

The project groups "Preparedness for Peace" at the Malmo School of Education in Sweden studies ways of helping children and young people to deal constructively with questions of peace and war. As part of this work, experts with special interest and competence in areas related to peace education are interviewed. These interviews explore the views of Mitsuo Okamoto and Bogdan Rowinski. Mitsuo Okamoto is professor of peace studies at Hiroshima Shudo University and president of the Peace Studies Association of Japan. Bogdan Rowinski has been attached to a Youth Problems Research Institute in Warsaw, working with questions related to peace education, including beliefs about the future and attitudes to war and peace among young people. (Author)