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When he was a 15-year-old high school student growing up in Japan, Tatsushi Arai met some of the survivors of the Hiroshima bombing and listened to their stories of living with radiation sickness in the years after the August 1945 attack.
Arai was touched, he said, “not only by the tragic nature of the experience, but also by their personal determination to go beyond victimhood. They were completely blameless.”
Now an associate professor of peace-building and conflict transformation at the School for International Training’s Graduate Institute in Brattleboro, Vt., as well as a fellow at George Mason University’s Center for Peacemaking Practice, the 45-year-old Deerfield resident who lives with his Taiwanese wife and their son, Justice, reflected on recent global tensions against last week’s backdrop of violence in Paris.
Arai is no stranger to violent conflict, having worked as a “peace-building practitioner” having one-on-one dialogues with an array of societal players in Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma, Rwanda and other global hot spots.
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