Saturday

61. WAM on War and Peace

Wednesday September 3, 2008

I had a meeting with Mina Watanabe, Secretary General/Curator, and Alison Scott, a Dutch Canadian assistant, at Women's Active Museum(WAM)on War and Peace. We discussed the purpose of my project and the difficulties associated with the "comfort women" issue in Japan. 

http://www.wam-peace.org/eng/

On the aims of Women's Active Museum on War and Peace:
"Why don't we found a strategic basis to record and bear in mind the facts of what military forces did against women and how cruelly they were damaged during wartime, and let a peaceful future without violence come true?"

"Wam started with five action targets to bring this dream into reality: Focus on wartime violence, declaring that justice free from any gender bias shall be universally applied; Gather and exhibit data on individual victims, clarifying who is to take responsibility for such victimization; Create an action basis to realize a peaceful and non-violence future; Produce a people's movement without depending on any state power; Take action to enable cross-border solidarity."

Entering WAM

With Mina Watanabe

With Mina Watanabe, Secretary General/Curator, and Alison Scott, a Dutch Canadian assistant




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