Peace history in the United States began in the interwar period under the leadership of U.S. intellectual historian Merle Curti. It further developed after World War II due to the emergence of interdisciplinary peace studies. Social issues like the nuclear arms race and the Civil Rights Movement led to the establishment of the Conference on Peace Research in History (CPRH) in 1964, broadening the scope of peace history research.

In the late 1970s, peace history research reached an inflection point due to factors such as the end of the Vietnam War and détente between the US and the Soviet Union. While many female researchers left the field of peace history, new developments emerged, including a convergence with military and diplomatic history and the internationalization of the field.

Currently, American peace history research faces three challenges: the balance between interdisciplinarity and specialization, the focus on the West versus non-Western perspectives, and the relationship between research and activism. While early peace history research aimed to introduce interdisciplinary peace studies into history, it has since then drifted away from social sciences as collaboration with other historical fields has progressed. Moreover, research has primarily focused on U.S. history, with limited international scope. Finally, the relationship with social movements like the peace movement has also changed, and the future role of peace history research is being questioned as H-PAD takes the lead in activism.

This paper discusses the invocation of food power since Israel's “founding” on Palestinian land. Food power is the power to control human beings and nature through food. Israel has used force to deprive the Palestinian people of land and water, imposed an economic blockade to spread starvation, and used arable land as a buffer zone to keep Palestinians out, then sprayed it with pesticides and contaminated the vegetables grown there with the wind. The paper also touches on Israel's power structure, in which Israel uses an economic structure in which Palestinian farmers are forced to grow crops for Israel's export industry, and Palestinian farmers are forced to buy seeds, plastic greenhouses, and so on. I want to reveal the dark side of Israel's agriculture, which is considered to be the most advanced in the world, and to take a closer look at the reality of its colonial rule.

This paper aims to reconstruct the history of relations between Aceh and Japan, focusing on Masao Shirakawa, a former Japanese soldier who remained in Indonesia after the Asia-Pacific War and participated in the Indonesian War of Independence, and did not leave Aceh throughout his life.

Born in Lushun, Shirakawa enrolled at the Tung Wen College in Shanghai, went on a student conscription to become a Kamikaze pilot, and became a member of the Ibaraki Kikan, a Japanese special operation unit in Singapore. After the surrender of Japan, he went to Aceh alone and became Muslim, then married an Acehnese woman, but only fragments are known about him during the period of the Indonesian War of Independence. After being discharged from the Indonesian army, Shirakawa developed various businesses, including a clinic and drugstore, poultry farming, vegetable cultivation, transportation, and management of coffee shops and barbershops. Shirakawa also served as a local advisor to Japanese companies operating in Aceh, working to foster understanding and trust between Aceh and Japan.

Shirakawa believed in the cause of the Greater East Asia War, and his life was dedicated to his aspiration of realizing the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere. However, it can be inferred that Shirakawa actually had mixed feelings about the Greater East Asia War from his efforts to rebuild a mosque that was reportedly destroyed by fire during the anti-Japanese insurrection in Aceh immediately after the start of Japanese military rule. For Shirakawa, who was born and raised in Lushun and ended his life in Aceh, Japan was not a real homeland. Shirakawa may have been trying to realize the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere in Aceh as an ideal homeland.