In his Featured Presentation Prof. Takai explored the merits behind a variety of strategies and methods used in conflict management. In this interview IAFOR Executive Director, Dr. Joseph Haldane, continues the discussion with Prof. Takai on how avoiding conflict can be used as an effective conflict management technique.

Jiro Takai is professor of social psychology at Nagoya University, and received his PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has served in the executive committees of the Japan Society for Social Psychology, the Japan Group Dynamics Society, the Japan Intercultural Education Society, the Communication Association of Japan, and the Japan-US Communication Association (affiliate of National Communication Association).

Prof. Takai was a Conference Co-Chair and Featured Presenter at The Asian Conference on Psychology and Behavioral Sciences 2014 (ACP2014) held in Osaka, Japan.

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Entrepreneur, academic, and business consultant Prof. Jay Friedlander of the College of the Atlantic talks with IAFOR Executive Director, Dr. Joseph Haldane about the importance of abundance in business. Prof. Friedlander explains how he made the transition from the business world to that of academia. They also discuss the recent shift in focus for major corporations and businesses to be more sustainability-conscious and how the concept of sustainability has evolved and changed.

Prof. Jay Friedlander is the Sharpe-McNally Chair of Green and Socially Responsible Business at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor,

Maine and founder of a vanguard sustainable business program.

Prof. Jay Friedlander was a Keynote Speaker at The Asian Conference on Sustainability, Energy and the Environment 2014 (ACSEE2014) in Osaka, Japan.

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This panel discussion was held after the commencement of Prof. Arthur Stockwins and Mr. Jun Arimas Keynote Speeches at the IAFOR European Conference on Social Sciences 2014 (ECSS2014) and the IAFOR European Business Management Conference 2014 (EBMC2014) in Brighton, England.

Prof. Arthur Stockwin of Oxford University spoke on the topic of Japan’s Abe Government and the new and sometimes questionable directions they are taking Japan.

Jun Arimas Keynote Speech showed how the introduction of Abenomics is putting Japan’s economy back onto the path to recovery and stability.

In this panel these two experts on Japans history, economy and culture continue their discussions on the health and future of Japan.

Sue Jackson, Pro-Vice-Master for Learning and Teaching and Professor of Lifelong Learning and Gender at Birkbeck, University of London, discusses the transformative power of education with IAFOR Executive Director, Dr. Joseph Haldane. Prof. Jackson was the Conference Co-Chair for the IAFOR European Conference on Education 2014 (ECE2014).

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IAFOR Executive Director, Dr. Joseph Haldane, sits down Prof. Hall to discuss the origins of Queer Studies, growing up in the deep south, Prof. Halls academic career, The Routledge Queer Studies Reader and an interdisciplinary call to arms.

Prof. Donald E. Hall is the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Lehigh University, USA. Prof. Hall has published widely in the fields of British Studies, Gender Theory, Cultural Studies, and Professional Studies.

Prof. Donald E. Hall was a Keynote Speaker at The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2014 in Osaka, Japan.

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Prof. Swanson sits down with Dr. Joseph Haldane, IAFOR Executive Director, to discuss his career in Journalism and his experiences as an academic in China.

Prof. Gary E. Swanson is the Mildred S. Hansen Endowed Chair and Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence at the University of Northern Colorado, USA. From 2005-2007 Prof. Swanson was a Fulbright scholar to China and lectured at Tsinghua University and the Communication University of China.

Prof. Swanson was the Conference Chair and a Featured Speaker at The European Conference on Media and Mass Communication 2014 (EuroMedia2014) and the IAFOR European Conference on Film and Documentary 2014 (EuroFilm2014) in Brighton, England.

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Dr. Joseph Haldane, IAFORs Executive Director, speaks with Prof. Kuniko Miyanaga, Founding Director of the IAFOR Language Research Institute, about how identity and personality can change through learning a new language.

Kuniko Miyanaga is a cultural anthropologist and linguist and works on questions of globalization, identity and language. Prof. Miyanaga is the founding and current director of the Human Potential Institute NPO, as well as the founding director of the IAFOR Language Research Institute.

Prof. Miyanaga was a Keynote Speaker at The Asian Conference on Language Learning 2014 (ACLL2014) in Osaka, Japan.

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This interview features highlights of some of the bigger questions Dr. Joseph Haldane, IAFOR Executive Director, asked in a follow-up interview with Prof. Frank S. Ravitch about his Keynote Presentation on Japanese government officials visiting Yasukuni Shrine. Prof. Ravitch also discusses Japanese Constitutional Law, Yasukuni Shrine, a “Color-Bind” U.S. constitution and more.

Prof. Ravitch was a Keynote Speaker at the IAFOR Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion, and Philosophy 2014 (ACERP2014). His Keynote Presentation addressed the constitutional rights and the ethical dilemma regarding Japanese government officials visiting Yasukuni Shrine.

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“You can’t turn your emotions off, that would be inhuman. You have to care and you have to let the disturbance, the anger, the grief, motivate you to do something constructive and logical.”

Lowell Sheppard, Asia Pacific Director of the HOPE International Development Agency, has extensive experience in crisis and conflict situations. He spoke with Dr. Joseph Haldane, IAFOR Executive Director, at The Asian Conference on the Social Sciences (ACSS2014) in Osaka, Japan.

The HOPE International Development Agency, an organization focused on working with the world’s extreme poor in their quest to climb out of poverty. Aside from his 25-year involvement with HOPE, Mr. Sheppard has dedicated much of his life to social and environmental improvement projects throughout the world.

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Prof. Penny Jane Burke of Roehampton University, London and Prof. Heidi Safia Mirza of Goldsmiths College, University of London discuss transforming education, engaging differences and creating inclusive spaces with Prof. Sue Jackson of Birkbeck, University of London. Prof. Burke and Prof. Mirza were Keynote Speakers at The European Conference on Education 2014 (ECE2014) in Brighton, UK.

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