The
North-South Cultural Communication Prize 2000
Awarded
to Prof. Kiiji FUJIWARA
(Japan) and
Ms Amal BOUJEMAA (Morocco)
The North-South Cultural Communication Prize was established
by Prof. Mahdi Elmandjra, in 1991, after the publication of his book “the First
Civilizational War”. It is awarded each year on January 17, in commemoration of
the hideous war which was launched against
the Iraqi people in 1991 and which is still going on in the form of repeated
air strikes coupled with an inhuman embargo.
The purpose of the Prize is to encourage the promotion of
cultural communication between the North and the South as a key element in the
building of international peace. The Prize is funded from the royalties of the
writings of its initiator.
In 1999, the Prize was awarded symbolically to all of
the children of Iraq and to Denis
HALLIDAY (Ireland), who resigned, on Oct 31 1998, from his position as Coordinator of the Humanitarian Action of
the UN in Iraq, in protest against the embargo imposed on Iraq and its
disastrous effects on over 500,000 children.
Prof. Kiichi
FUJIWARA (Japan) and Ms Amal BOUJEMAA (Morocco), winners of the year 2000 Prize
Kiichi FUJIWARA was
born in 1956. He is Professor of International Politics at Tokyo University
where he has been teaching since 1992 and from where he graduated with a
doctor’s degree in 1984. Prof. FUJIWARA has become one of the prominent
political scientists in Japan thanks to his remarkable research work and
publications. His fame has extended well beyond his country’s borders. In
studying Japan’s relations with its Asian neighbours, he displayed considerable
sensitiveness to the problems plaguing the countries of the “South”. He is the
author of over 50 articles published in Japanese and English.
Prof. FUJIWARA spent over ten years (1985-1995) as a research scholar at the famous “Institute of Developing Economies” in Tokyo. He is now investigating the relationship between “poverty” and “conflicts” and the resulting stereotypes of the “poor”. His aim is to get an insight into the phenomenon of poverty, using an endogenous approach thus according a significant weight to the cultural dimension.
The Curriculum vitae of Professor Fujiwara is annexed
Amal
BOUJEMAA was the first baby
girl to see the light of life in the year 2000 at the Souissi maternity
hospital in Rabat. Her mother, Latifa
RASSID is a teacher of natural science at a secondary school in Salé. Her
father, Soualem BOUJEMAA, is an anaesthetist paramedic. The selection of Amal
is highly symbolic . Indeed , through her,
it is the Moroccan woman and
women at large that are being honored.
It is hoped that the new century will
bring them more equality, social justice, recognition and implementation of
universal rights, dismantlement of all forms of discrimination, freedom,
education, self-respect, creativeness and inherent happiness, of which they
were so blatantly deprived in the last century. Therefore the choice of the
name “AMAL” ( hope) for the new born
girl is not at all coincidental.
Basically the issue of women’s rights is quite similar to
what we observe in connection with “North-South” relations - not only are these
relations unequa unequal, but such inequality tends to be enhanced
and exacerbated by force and power. In both cases, respect for and
understanding of the OTHER are basic prerequisites for changes in attitudes and
mental structures. Therefore, awarding the Prize for North-South Cultural
Communication” to AMAL is fully consistent with the objectives of this
distinction.
Through “AMAL”, the
Prize is also meant as a tribute to all of the children who are abused by
society. Hope (AMAL) we shall for ever.
Rabat
, 17 January 2000
University of Tokyo
(Curriculum Vitae)
Born: June 16, 1956
Nationality: Japanese
Sex: Male
Current Position: Professor of International Politics, Faculty of Law, the University of Tokyo
Major: Political Science, International Relations, Southeast Asian Studies
Office : Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyoku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
Phone: 81-(+0)3-3812-2111 Fax: 81-(+0)3-3816-6864
E-mail: kkfujiw@ibm.net
Home: Nasecho 167-12, Totsukaku, Yokohama 245-0051, Japan
Phone / Fax: 81-(+0)45-813-6448
1. Employment
1999- Present Professor of International Politics, Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo
1992-1998 Associate Professor of Political Science, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo
1988-1992 Associate Professor, Chiba University (Chiba City, Japan)
1987-1988 Research Associate, Chiba University
1984-1987 Research Associate, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo
1996-1997 Visiting Scholar, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University (Washington D.C.)
1995-1996 Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center (Washington D.C.)
1994-1995 Lecturer, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
1993 Visiting Professor, Asian Center, University of the Philippines
1990-1992 Lecturer, Dokkyo University (Soka City, Japan)
1989-92, 94-95;
97-98 Lecturer, St. Paul University (Tokyo, Japan)
1985-1995 Research Fellow, Institute of Developing Economies (Tokyo, Japan)
2. Education
1984 Completed Ph.D program at the University of Tokyo
1981 MA in Political Science, the University of Tokyo
1979 BA in Law, the University of Tokyo
3. Awards and Grants
1995-1996 Woodrow Wilson International Center Fellowship
1982-1983 Fulbright Scholarship (Ph.D program, Yale University)
4. Membership
Japan Political Science Association
Japan Association for International Politics
Peace Studies Association for Japan
Japanese Association for Comparative Politics
Japan Association for Southeast Asian History
Japan Association for Asian Political and Economic Studies
Association of Asian Studies
American Political Science Association
International Studies Association
5.
Publications (All works are written in Japanese unless otherwise noted.)
5-1. Book Chapters
1. "How the Cold War Ended: Peace by Agreement to Peace by Force," in Institute of Social Science, ed., The Twentieth Century Global System, vol. 6. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1998.
2. "Hegemony and Networks: Origins of Orders in International Relations, in Institute of Social Science, ed., The Twentieth Century Global System, vol. 6. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1998.
3. "Nationalism, the Cold War, and Development: State Formation and National Consciousness in Southeast Asia," in Institute of Social Science, ed., The Twentieth Century Global System, vol. 4. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1998
4. "World Wars and World Orders: International Politics in the Twentieth Century," in Institute of Social Science, ed., The Twentieth Century Global System, vol. 1. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1998
5. "State Formation and Regional Order: Southeast Asia in the International Environment," in Peter King and Yoichi Kibata, eds., Peace Building in the Asia Pacific Region. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1996 (English)
6. "Bureaucrats and Development: On Political Conditions of Industrialization in East and Southeast Asia," Sakio Iwasaki, et al, eds., Bureaucracy in ASEAN. Tokyo: Institute of Developing Economies, 1996.
7. "Governmental Parties and Pressure-Group Oppositions: Governmental Party Regimes in Southeast Asia," Yoshiyuki Hagiwara, ed., Democratization and Economic Development (vol.3 of Modern Asia), Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1994.
8. "Industrialization and Political Change: State, Capital, Society," Yoshikazu Sakamoto, ed., Structural Transformation in World Politics, vol.3, 1994.
9. "Why Nations Agree - or Do They?" SOCC, Conflict and Consensus in the Age of Chaos, Tokyo: Sobunsha, 1994.
10. "The Sovereign State and the Nation State: Approaching Pax Americana," in the Iwanami Series on Methods in Social Science, vol. 11, 1994.
11. "Party Politics in the Philippines: Congress without Parties," in Yoshiyuki Hagiwara, et. al., eds., Party Politics in ASEAN. Tokyo: Institute of Developing Economies, 1993.
12. "Theories of Imperialism and the Post-War World," in the Iwanami Series on Modern Japan and the Colonies, vol.1 Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1992.
13. "The International Structure of the Cold War in Asia: The Core, the Front, and the Peripheries," in Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, eds., Modern Japanese Society, vol.7. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1992.
14. "The Political Economy of Democratization," in Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, eds., Modern Japanese Society, vol.3 Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1992.
15. "Basic Factors in Political Change"; "Basic Patterns of Political Change," both in Toru Yano, eds., Politics in Southeast Asia. [vol.7 of Southeast Asian Studies] Tokyo: Kobundo, 1992.
16. "The Military in the Process of Democratization: Applying Stepan's Theory to the Armed Forces of the Philippines," Nihon Seiji Gakkai, ed., Civil-Military Relations in the Process of Modernization. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1990.
17. "Philippine Politics and Development Administration," MituoFukushima,ed., Industrialization in the Philippines: Search for Reconstruction. Tokyo: Institute of Developing Economies, 1990.
18. "Philippine Political Institutions," in Yoshiyuki Hagiwara, et. al., eds., Political Regimes in ASEAN. Tokyo: Institute of Developing Economies, 1987.
5-2. Journal Articles
· After the Fall: Crisis in Japanese Political Economy, Asia Perspectives 2, 1998 (English).
· "A New Nuclear Menace and Blueprints for Peace," Sekai (Aug. 1998).
· Nationalism: Three Puzzles," Gekkan Hyakka, no.397 (Nov. 1995).
· "Imagining the Past, Remembering the Future," Social Science Japan, no.3 (1995) (English).
· "Urban Cold Wars, Provincial Cold Wars," Sogoteki Chiiki Kenkyu, no.6 (1995).
· "Two Faces of Nationalism," Bessatsu Takarajima no.195 (1994).
· "Why I Learned to Stop Worrying and Decided to Vote Again," Bessatsu Takarajima no.189 (1993).
· "The Long End of the Century: World Wars, Democracy, and the Nation State," Kanagawa Daigaku Hyoron, July 1993.
· "Cold-War Hangovers: U.S. Military Bases and Philippine Nationalism," Azia Kenkyu vol.39 no.2, 1993.
· "The End of the Sino-U.S. Cold War and Southeast Asia," Shakaikagaku Kenkyu, vol.44, no.5 (1993).
· "A Local Cold War: JUSMAG and the Reorganization of the AFP 1948-1950," Chiba Daigaku Hogaku Ronshu, vol.6-2, 1991.
· "Power Politics and Interdependence," Shiso, 803, May 1991.
· "Who Cares about ODAs?" Heiwa Kenkyu, no.13 (1988).
· "Philippine Democracy: Regime and Movements," Shakai Kagaku Kenkyu, vol.40-1 (1988).
· "Changing World Market and 'Development" Policies," Chiba Daigaku Hogaku Ronshu, vol.3-1 (1988).
· "The Development of World-System Analysis: Beyond Immanuel Wallerstein," Shiso, no.738 (Dec. 1985).
· "Ethnicity as an Ideology: The Moro Problem under U.S. Administration," Kokka Gakkai Zasshi, vol.97-7/8 (1984).
5-3. Conference Papers
(all written in English)
1. Political Utilities of Developmental Assistance: The Philippines and Indonesia in Comparative Perspective, paper presented at the Conference on Regional Cooperation in Asia, Institute for Japanese Studies, U-Life Center, Oct. 8-9. 1998..
2. "Philippine Studies in Japan, paper presented at the Fifth International Philippine Studies Conference, Honolulu, April 13-16, 1996. Reprinted in the Philippine Studies Newsletter
3. "Failure of Authoritarian Consolidation: The Case of the KBL," paper presented at the Fifth International Philippine Studies Conference, Honolulu, April 13-16, 1996.
4. "Autocratic Peace or Democratic Peace? Domestic Origins of Regional Order in Southeast Asia," paper presented at the First International Conference on RP-Japan Relations, Manila, July 28-29, 1995. Reprinted in its proceedings.
5. "External Origins of Domestic Stability: U.S. and Japanese Development Assistance to Southeast Asia", paper presented at the FASCID / IPR Workshop on Development Policies, Governance, and the Asian Miracle Lessons, Honolulu, April 6-8, 1995.
6. "State Formation and Regional Order: Southeast Asia in the International Environment," paper presented at the Japan-Australian Symposium on Peace Building in the Asia-Pacific and Australia- Japan Relations, Tokyo, Dec. 3-4, 1994.
7. "The Failure of Governmental Parties: The Case of the KBL in the Philippines," paper presented at the American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, New York, Sep. 1-4, 1994.
8. "Contending Orders in East and South East Asia: Japanese and Asian Perspectives," paper presented at the Japan Studies Lectures, supported by the Japan Foundation, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Brisbane, April 4-14, 1994. Reprinted as a Working Paper from the University of New South Wales.
9. "Governmental-Parties: Political Parties and the State in North and Southeast Asia," paper presented at the International Political Science Association (IPSA) Roundtable, Kyoto, March 25-27, 1994."
10. "Southeast Asia after the Cold War: An Interpretive Essay," paper presented at the International Symposium on "Changing International Order and Japan," University of the Philippines, Quezon City, February 1993.
11. "The Philippine Base Puzzles, or Post-Cold War Hangovers," paper presented at the Second International Symposium of the Japan Association for Asian Political and Economic Studies (Ajia Seikei Gakkai), Keio University, Tokyo, Dec. 7-8, 1991.
12. "A Local Cold War: JUSMAG and the Reorganization of the AFP 1948-1950," paper presented at the Third International Philippine Studies Conference, Quezon City, July 1989.
13. "The Domestic Utilities of Military Aids: Strategic Aid and Regime-Changes in the Philippines and South Korea," paper presented at the APRA/UNU Workshop, Yokohama, March 1985.
14. "How Democratic are Democracies? Comparative Performances of Asian Democracies," paper presented at the APRA/UNU Workshop, Yokohama, 1984.