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To
further its commitment to promoting world peace, The Sasakawa
Peace Foundation (SPF) in Tokyo launched the "Culture
and Identity-Ethnic Coexistence in Asia" (Culture and Identity)
Program in 1994. SPF sought to draw upon successful experiences
in Asia's rich tradition of ethnic coexistence in order to contribute
to the prevention and resolution of ethnic conflicts around the
world.
The
Culture and Identity Program looked at the relationship between concepts
such as pluralism, equality and other ethnicity-related
values in indigenous Asian communities, mainly through the eyes of
Asian researchers. Research focused on four themes when analyzing
how Asian communities accommodate ethnicity issues: media, multicultural-ism,
the collective rights of ethnic groups, and education. For three
years,
the Program sought to 1) probe the mechanisms and cultural dynamics
of ethnic coexistence in Asia and 2) identify the common elements
found in examples of harmonious ethnic relations. Ultimately, the
Program
extracted and redefined the successful experiences of ethnic coexistence
into "Asian models of harmonious coexistence." After its initial three years of research based in Tokyo,
the Program was relocated to SPF-USA (Washington, DC) in September
1997. During the next two years, the Program disseminated its findings
to Asian and non-Asian audiences under the direction of then Program
Manager, Ms. Kayoko Tatsumi.
The Culture and Identity Program produced four publications
that identified the cross-cultural themes of Asian ethnic coexistence.
To access these publications, please visit the SPF-USA
Library:
Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA (ed), Multiculturalism: Modes of
Coexistence in South and Southeast Asia, Washington, DC: SPF-USA,
1999.
Goonasekera, Anura and Ito, Youichi (eds), Mass Media and Cultural
Identity: Ethnic Reporting in Asia, Sterling: Pluto Press,
1999.
Rupesinghe, Kumar (ed), Culture and Identity: Ethnic Coexistence in
the Asian Context, Washington, DC: SPF-USA, 1999.
Recommendations for Policy and Further Study, a booklet from the SPF-USA
Program: Culture and Identity: Ethnic Coexistence in Asia, Washington, DC:
SPF-USA,
1999.
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