Research Project: U.S.-Japan Cooperation to Address Global Challenges: Armed Conflicts, Global Warming, and Pandemics

Dr. Daisaku Higashi is a professor at Sophia University in Tokyo. He specializes in mediation on armed conflicts, post-conflict peacebuilding, and international relations. After working at NHK as a program director, he completed his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He also worked for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) as a team leader for reconciliation and reintegration in Kabul (2010), as well as Minister-Counsellor in the Permanent Mission of Japan to the UN (2012-2014). His publications include How Can We End the War in Ukraine (in Japanese, Iwanami 2023), Inclusivity in Mediation and Peacebuilding: UN, Neighboring States, and Global Power (Edward Elgar 2022), and Challenges of Constructing Legitimacy in Peacebuilding: Afghanistan, Iraq, Sierra Leone and East Timor (Routledge 2015). His research project will examine how the U.S. and Japan can cooperate to tackle global challenges, including the war in Ukraine.