Kenji Isezaki

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Kenji Isezaki ( Japanese 伊 勢 﨑 賢治 , Isezaki Kenji ; * July 6, 1957 ) is a Japanese university professor, former development worker and United Nations employee .

Career

Isezaki worked as a development worker in Sierra Leone shortly before the outbreak of the civil war in 1991 , and stayed in this role for a total of ten years. From March 2000 to June 2001 he was in East Timor for the United Nations . He then returned to Sierra Leone for UNAMSIL and worked in the coordination department for GDR (disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration). Isezaki was then also active in Afghanistan in the GDR as a special envoy for the Japanese government. He is now Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the Tokyo University for Foreign Studies (TUFS) Isezaki Kenji School of Global Studies and has authored several books. Isezaki is also Vice President of the Association of Aid and Relief Japan, the oldest international non-governmental organization in Japan.

Isezaki received a Master of Engineering degree from Waseda University in 1986 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peng Er Lam: Japan's Peace-Building Diplomacy in Asia: Seeking a More Active Political Role, limited preview in the Google book search.
  2. ↑ Nippon.com: Isezaki Kenji , December 5, 2016 , accessed June 27, 2019.
  3. ↑ International Center for Strategic Studies: Prof. Kenji Isezaki , 2016 , accessed on June 27, 2019.
  4. ↑ TUFS: ISEZAKI Kenji , accessed June 27, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Isezaki, Kenji
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 伊 勢 﨑 賢治 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese development worker, UN worker and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1957