Impressively, on October 18-19, it happened--"the 2013 Jeju April 3 Peace Education Conference: Towards an Island Civilization Model of Social Healing from the Mass Killing of Jeju Islanders of South Korea During and After U.S. Peacetime Occupation (1947-1954)." In Jeju Island, Korea, we, the undersigned, agree to approve the recommendation for a Joint South Korea and United States Jeju 4.3 Task Force on Social Healing Through Justice presented and carefully discussed at the Jeju April 3 Peace Education Conference.
The proposal for a Joint U.S. and South Korea Task Force is grounded in collaborations with Jeju 4.3 scholars and interactions with local officials and justice advocates as contributed to by the peace-promoting traditions of Jeju Island, which was designated as World Peace Island by the Korean Government on January 27, 2005. In so doing, the undersigned and participants in the 2013 April 3 Peace Education Conference agree that there are several urgent issues of Unfinished Social Healing Through Justice to be addressed by Jeju citizens and the provincial government, with input and support from the central government and from international communities, including scholars, researchers and justice organizations. A Joint Task Force would serve as a crucial next step toward genuine reconciliation - helping implement unfinished recommendations, assessing the effectiveness of actions to date and recommending further concrete ameliorative actions aimed at comprehensive, systemic and enduring social healing. Jeju National University is ready to establish the Social Healing Center through inclusion of its establishment in the regulation of World Environment and Island Studies towards the end of 2013.
We agree that we will make efforts to practice some shorter term action plans such as institutionalization of Jeju April 3rd Peace Education Conference, Peace Island International Leadership Project and Jeju Peace Film and Art Festival in 2014 as linking-pin programs in the process of social healing toward establishment of a World Peace Island. For example the 2013 Global Peace Bultuk Assembly GPBA happened through participation of 10 Japanese students of Hokkaido Law School and Humanity College and Korean graduates and undergraduates of the College of Social Science of JNU on November 21, 2013 in Korea. They have shared with something different from Asian history, such as the Jeju April 3rd Tragedy and Chinese slave labor in Hokkaido, and so on, under comments of professors of the two universities. They will try to initiate the 2014 Peace Island International Leadership School to lead the Asian community more democratically at a grassroots level through educational exchange programs, Island Governance School for Cultures of Peace, UNESCO World Heritage, and Peace Education every year.
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