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Journey to Peace #10: From Enemy to Ally (Free Graduate-Level Seminar)
Date: Saturday, October 24, 2026
Time: 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM (Check-in starts at 9:30 AM)
Location: Aloha Tower Marketplace - Multi-Purpose Room 3
1 Aloha Tower Drive, Honolulu, HI 96813
Journey to Peace Hawaiʻi is a no-cost, graduate-level seminar series where ambassadors, military leaders, and scholars review the hard lessons of war and peace in the Pacific in a real university classroom, open to anyone. No tuition, no prerequisites! Just the seminar experience that graduate students pay for, offered for free to the public, for all who want to understand how we got here and how we may work toward a better future.
Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Pearl Harbor and Hawaii Pacific University, offering Bachelors and Master's degrees in Diplomacy and Global Security, Cybersecurity, Public Administration, and more.
ABOUT THE SEMINAR:
Eighty years ago, recovery from World War II was underway. New governmental organizations, guided by the United Nations, held great promise for reorienting the world toward peace. In the Pacific, the U.S.-led Supreme Command for the Allied Powers directed the demilitarization and recovery of Japan and drafted an entirely new constitution renouncing war. Japanese officials refined it and steered it through the Diet; the Emperor promulgated it on November 3, 1946. It has governed Japan ever since, unamended. Join us to examine what this episode teaches about occupation, recovery, international collaboration, how a defeated adversary became one of America’s closest allies, and what those lessons mean for us today.