Professor Yates Teaches in a Peace Studies Program in South Korea |
| Wednesday, 30 July 2008 |
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With the support of the Jeju provincial government , the UN, and in Boston, USA., it seeks to promote world peace through the concept of peace island, which is聽based on the idea that islands have originally peaceful cultures that can be used as models for peninsular and continental countries. In an , Ko Chang-Hoon, who heads this program at Jeju National University, said Jeju Island was developing itself as 'a Mecca for world peace.' Read more on the Peace Island concept in Douglas Yates's Op-Ed article |
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On July 26-29, as every year since 2006, Douglas Yates was invited to join the visiting faculty of a special summer program on peace studies at Jeju National University, in South Korea.
This program takes place on the campus on Jeju Island, off the Korean peninsula, and features an international faculty.
I aim to help my students prepare for life beyond "the groves of academe" - especially how to ask the right questions to work out what is really going on out there. Along the way, they practice writing lucidly and succinctly. It is stimulating teaching such a lively crew. I hope they also find it fun being challenged to analyse the facts without prejudice and to think originally