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関西学院大学災害復興制度研究所 Institute of Disaster Area Revitalization, Regrowth and Governance

Japan
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Mission

関西学院大学は阪神大震災によって23人の学生・教職員を失いました。激甚被災地・西宮にある大学として、その直後から、学生を中心とした震災救援ボランティア活動や各学部の教員による復旧・復興の研究が行われてきました。

震災から9年が過ぎた2004年1月、学長主導の全学的な試みとして阪神淡路をはじめ全国の自治体・大学・NPOなどの復興支援関係者を一堂に集めた「災害復興制度研究プロジェクト」が開始されました。その結果、関学の強みである人文・社会科学の研究を生かし、よりよい災害復興制度を研究・提案する独立の研究所を新設することになりました。災害復興制度研究所は、2005年1月17日、阪神淡路大震災からちょうど10年の節目に誕生しました。人文・社会科学を中心にした「復興」制度の研究に焦点を合わせる点では全国唯一の研究所です。

This institute is a part of kwansei gakuin university. This is the first research facility in Japan devoted to research on revitalizing and regrowing disaster-struck areas. It was created on January 17, 2005, the tenth anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Kobe and neigboring areas in 1995. Since then, it has been made open to the public, joined by nationwide researchers, media representatives, volunteers and lawmakers.

In 2008, the institute took the initiative to create the Japan Society for Disaster Recovery and Revitalization.

The missions are:

“Systematized recovery and revitalization philosophy”

“Institutionalized recovery and revitalization philosophy”

“Practice in line with recovery and revitalization philosophy”

It promotes the researches from these three pillars, especially focusing the theme of “recovery and revitalization” which has been the weakest and thus unexplored research area in Japan, in terms of the disaster management cycle (prevention, emergency response, recovery and revitalization)

It aims to offer a foothold for the safety and secure world in this super-aged society as well as this unequal society.

It tries to integrate actuals and research, and aims to find a way to pursue happiness of the affected people. It keeps the researches to create institutionalized system for supporting “human-centered recovery”.

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https://www.kwansei.ac.jp/fukkou/about/index_en.html

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