Martin Millete
Martin Millete is a Master’s student from the Philippines enrolled in the International Peace and Co-existence Program at Hiroshima University. He completed his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in Political Science at De La Salle University in Manila, where he conducted research on the political economy of rail transport financing through Official Development Assistance (ODA) and Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in Metro Manila. Currently majoring in Cultural Anthropology, his present research focuses on stakeholder perceptions of Japanese ODA in Metro Manila’s mass transportation projects, exploring the concepts of development, displacement, and spatial inequalities.
Miyu Murase
Miyu Murase is a Master’s student at the International Peace and Co-Existence Program at Hiroshima University. Her research focuses on the reintegration of ex-combatants in post-conflict areas, particularly in relation to their interactions with local communities. Since October 2024, she has been assisting with Japanese social media management for NERPS.
Riyaz Karki
Riyaz Karki is a doctoral student in the International Peace and Co-existence Program at Hiroshima University, Japan. He holds a strong academic foundation in Social Work and completed his graduate studies in Rural Community Development at Bangalore University, India. A recipient of the MEXT Scholarship, his current research explores gender-responsive disaster risk reduction in Nepal, with a particular emphasis on its role in advancing environmental peacebuilding.
Yousingi Son
Yousingi Son is a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (Education Program) at Hiroshima University who recently joined NERPS as a student fellow. Her research focuses on exploring how gender stereotypes influence female university students’ choices of STEM majors in higher education.
Former Student Fellows and Research Assistants
Vrajesh Rawal
Vrajesh Rawal is a master’s student at the International Peace and Co-existence Program of Hiroshima University’s Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences. His research topic focuses on exploring how political parties in India, such as INC and BJP, influence the country’s interactions with the IMF, considering historical trends, policy preferences, and global contexts.
Dita Pelawi
Dita Pelawi is a master’s student at the International Education Development Program of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University. Her research interest is internationalization at HEIs, including academic mobility and the development of the international relation office of HEIs. Dita assisted the social media management and information dissemination of NERPS activities in English from February 2023 to March 2025.
Pornphan Wajjwalku
Pornphan Wajjwalku, or Pin, is a master’s student from Thailand enrolled in the International Peace and Co-existence Program, Hiroshima University. She completed her undergraduate studies at the Department of Integrated Global Studies, where she conducted research on Japanese urbanites who migrated to rural islands in the Seto Inland Sea. Currently majoring in cultural anthropology, her present research focuses on Japanese lifestyle migrants in Thailand and explores the concept of happiness and well-being.
Noa Morishita
Noa Morishita is a master’s student from Japan at the International Peace and Co-existence Program of Hiroshima University’s Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her research topic focuses on peacebuilding especially the challenges of power-sharing from the perspective of bias in election results in Burundi. From April 2024, she has been mainly responsible for the Japanese social media management and website updates of NERPS. Noa has been primarily responsible for managing NERPS’ Japanese social media and updating the website from April 2024 to March 2025.
Aathirai Thevarajah
Aathirai Thevarajah is a master’s student at the International Peace and Co-existence Program of Hiroshima University’s Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences. She is from Sri Lanka and has received her bachelor’s degree from the Tokyo University of Agriculture in international agricultural development. Currently, her interests lie in front-line negotiations and humanitarian aid in armed conflicts. She assisted NERPS with its day-to-day activities, including organizing webinars and managing social media from February 2023 to September 2024.
Yuna Namba
Yuna Namba is a master’s student at the International Peace and Co-existence Program of Hiroshima University’s Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her research topic focuses on the process of war propaganda and the psychological changes toward community identification during the Rwandan genocide. Yuna has been primarily responsible for managing NERPS’ Japanese social media and updating the website from April 2023 to March 2024.
PJ Rohan George
Rohan is a master’s student at the IDEC Institute, Hiroshima University. He is a budding climate scientist, and his research aims to assess the costs and benefits of solutions to glacial lake outburst floods in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region. Rohan worked in the financial services sector with an international bank in Tokyo for over 15 years as an expert in the valuation of financial products and revenue recognition. He is a Chartered Accountant who began his professional career with one of the “Big Four” consulting firms in India, and has global experience in Europe, Asia and the United States with a multinational manufacturing and financial services conglomerate. He has a bachelor’s degree in economics and accounting from the University of Bristol. At NERPS, he is assistant to the “Project to augment quality and quantity of NERPS activities, making good use of NERPS Fellows” and works for various NERPS projects/activities.
Rahmatika Dewi
Rahmatika Dewi is a doctoral student at the International Education Development Program of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University. She holds a master’s degree in Educational Development from Hiroshima University. Her research interests include job sustainability especially in the digitalization and Industry 4.0 era, skills for the future of work, higher education institutions (HEIs) and industries nexus, and HEIs curriculum reforms. Her research is situated in Indonesia. Rahmatika assisted the social media management and information dissemination of NERPS activities in English from April 2021 to January 2024.
John Lee Candelaria
John Lee Candelaria was a Ph.D. student at the Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in History from the University of the Philippines. His dissertation project investigated the dynamics of state memorialization of war through monuments and memorials in Southeast Asia in the twentieth century. He conducts research on Philippine and Southeast Asian history, politics, heritage, and international relations. Lee provided research assistance to the NERPS project on Sustainable Peace and Peaceful Sustainability in Conflict-Affected Societies from October 2020-September 2022.
Kai Kagitani
Kai Kagitani studied Anthropology at the International Peace and Co-existence Program of Hiroshima University’s Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences. His supervisors were Prof. Koki Seki and Dr. Moe Nakazora. His research topic was the possibility of coexistence between skateboarders and non-skateboarders in street spaces. He conducted fieldwork at the park in Hiroshima city by focusing on skateboarders and non-skateboarders’ practices and how they are sharing the space through their commonality. He assisted in collecting SDGs-related activities at Hiroshima University from April 2021 to March 2022.
Alva Linnér
Alva Linnér was a master student in Development Studies at Lund University, Sweden, from where she obtained a bachelor’s degree in Peace and Conflict Studies. Her previous research activities include exploring the effects of climate change on international security, as well as the socio-economic aspects of armed conflict and development. She is the co-author of a recent chapter in Swedish on the geopolitics of trade in a climate changed world. She has previously worked as a research assistant at Linköping University, Sweden. In her master thesis, she will continue to explore how climate change impacts affect the onset of armed conflicts. Alva provided research assistance to the NERPS project on Climate governance and geopolitics in the Pacific from September to December 2022.
Rika Monzawa
Rika Monzawa was a master’s student at the International Peace and Co-existence Program of Hiroshima University’s Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences. For her research topic, “A Study of High School Students’ Views on “Peace” in Hiroshima, she surveys the youth of Hiroshima to find out what kind of values for peace they hold and how Hiroshima as a place and peace education in Hiroshima influence them. From April 2022 until March 2023, Rika had been mainly responsible for the Japanese social media management and website updates of NERPS.
Mika Sakai
Mika Sakai was a master’s student at the Department of Biosphere Science at Hiroshima University. Her major was Agricultural Economics, and her research was about good agricultural practices on tropical fruits in Thailand. She traveled to Thailand for a five-month fieldwork and visited the big productions areas of durian. She assisted in collecting and disseminating information about the SDGs-related activities of Hiroshima University from 2019 until March 2020.
Rebeca Tabosa
Rebeca Tabosa was an MSc. student of Environment and Sustainable Development at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Architecture and Urbanism from the Federal University of Paraiba, and a masters degree in Urban Management and Development from the Institute for Housing and Urban Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. She previously worked as an intern at UN Habitat Regional Office for Asian and the Pacific in Japan. She is currently interested in developing her master thesis about climate change adaptation and resilience in a Latin America context. Rebecca provided research assistance to the NERPS project on Sustainable Peace and Peaceful Sustainability in Conflict-Affected Societies from October 2020-March 2021.
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