Program Date: Saturday, November 16, 2024, 6-8 pm (via Zoom)
Application Deadline: September 18, 2024
On the cusp of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the atomic bombings of Japan in 2025, EngageAsia is launching an education project for high school teachers in the US and Japan focused on US-Japan reconciliation and the lessons it offers the world. Today, the countries share deep, trusting, and positive relations; 80 years ago, they viscerally hated and dehumanized each other, culminating in the use of nuclear weapons. This transformation has something to offer the world, but is rarely studied and is almost never covered in high school classrooms.
EngageAsia, in collaboration with the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, offers this free 2-hour virtual workshop to selected teachers from the US and Japan. Applicants must be full-time high school teachers of any subject that allows them to benefit from the workshop contents and bring lessons learned into their classrooms.
For more information and to apply, go to https://www.engageasia.org/lessons-of-reconciliation-project.