Abolish nuclear weapons!
High School Peace Ambassador October 6, 13:57
Every October, the Nobel Prize is announced.
This time around, we have a question about the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.
Think about the abolition of nuclear weapons.
Challenge the problem!
Problem
ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons), which contributed to the adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons by the United Nations, was selected for the Nobel Peace Prize.
How many of the following 10 countries have nuclear weapons?
United Kingdom Italy Egypt Australia Canada
Cuba People's Republic of China Germany France Russia
(Renamed in 2018)
The correct answer is 4 countries.
It will be England, China, France and Russia.
Five countries, including the United States, are nuclear-weapon states recognized by the NPT = Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Other than that, there are countries that seem to possess nuclear weapons.
Japan's "High School Peace Ambassador" is one of the organizations recommended for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, which is appealing for the abolition of nuclear weapons like this ICAN.
As the name implies, high school students are active.
We talked to the members.
What is a high school student peace ambassador?
Among the members of the "Peace Ambassador", we asked three high school students living in Nagasaki Prefecture to gather.
Yuka Okuma, Shinnosuke Osawa, and Nozomi Hayashida.
Mr. Okuma
"We are working to eliminate nuclear weapons and realize a peaceful world. We will mainly convey this to our generation as high school students."
In 1998, when India and Pakistan conducted a series of nuclear tests, the activities of the "High School Peace Ambassador" began.
This year, two high school students were dispatched to the United Nations Headquarters from the A-bombed area of Nagasaki.
Since then, new high school students have been selected as ambassadors from all over the country and are continuing their signature activities calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
The signatures collected so far are about 2 million people.
It is delivered to the United Nations every year.
Ambassadors are also called "Peace Messengers" abroad.
Mr. Osawa, a third year high school student.
I applied for an ambassador because of a story I heard from my grandmother who was bombed in Nagasaki when I was little.
Mr. Osawa
"My great-grandmother said,'I can't forget the smell of burning people,' in the story that'the atomic bomb fell, all my friends were blown away, and I walked home.' I applied because my great-grandmother died in the winter of my first year of high school and I was wondering if I could hear that story anymore. "
What is the significance of high school students appealing for the abolition of nuclear weapons as a peace ambassador?
Mr. Okuma
"I think everyone has the right to say,'I want to live in this kind of world,' because we are in the world we are going to live in, but I still want to live in a peaceful world, so that's what I do. I will send to
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However, the progress of the international community toward the abolition of nuclear weapons has never been smooth.
In addition, the ambassadors are devising ways to make face-to-face activities difficult due to the corona disaster.
This is a page where you can "digitally sign".
In addition, as I lost the opportunity to visit the bombed areas on my school trip, I made a video that traces the damage.
Climbing up the stone steps to the shrine, I could see ... only half of the torii gate.
It was destroyed by the atomic bomb in Nagasaki.
Camphor tree that leaves and branches were blown off that day.
Now, the lush green figure is accompanied by this explanation.
"The figure gave hope and courage to those who lived in a land that was said to have no vegetation for 70 years due to the atomic bomb."
Mr. Okuma
"The number of people who have actually experienced it is disappearing. I want everyone to know more, using their imagination, that it is not a single thing, but our own story that is still going on. I really think
Thinking about peace with young people abroad
There are also activities to think about peace with young people overseas.
We talked with a high school student in Hawaii who had an attack on Pearl Harbor by the former Japanese army.
I imagine that you are in a different position, but what kind of story did you come up with about that?
Mr. Okuma said,
"War is a place that can be both a victim and a harmer, and it is the places of Hawaii and Nagasaki that understand the two-sided part." It's scary to be in a situation where you have to hurt someone if you want to protect it. "
Continue to appeal for the abolition of nuclear weapons
The high school student peace ambassador is the 24th generation this year.
We will continue to steadily appeal to the world for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
Mr. Hayashida
"I think the idea that nuclear weapons are okay should be eliminated. Even if you don't use them, if they are there, an accident can occur."
Mr. Osawa:
"I think the worst thing is" indifference ". I think it's a problem that is common throughout the world and can never be solved by individuals, so I'd like to ask them to take an interest in what to do with society in the future. I think everyone in the world needs to think about it. "
In the last 20 years or so, about 300 people have been active as high school peace ambassadors.
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