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 Suffolk University in Boston, USA., it seeks to promote world peace through the concept of peace island, which is based on the idea that islands have originally peaceful cultures that can be used as models for peninsular and continental countries. In an interview with The Korea Times in 2008, 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 |
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 
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