Workshop �V The Creation and Succession of the Nuclear Abolition Movement -New Challenges for the Post-war Generation- Coordinators Yoshikazu Shibano (Japan, Associate Professor, Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science) Yumiko Masumoto (Japan, Director, IkiIki Welfare Co-op) Panelists Barbara Streibl (Germany, Coordinator, Ban All Nukes generation (BANg)) Nobuto Hirano (Japan, Association of Second Generation Hibaku Teachers) Haruko Moritaki (Japan, Co-director, Hiroshima Alliance for Nuclear Weapons Abolition) Takeshi Yamakawa (Japan, Nagasaki Prefecture Hibaku Teachers' Association) Emi Fujita (Japan, Reporter, NBC TV "Ah! puru" Morning Show) If Workshops �T& �Uwere political advisory and theoretical workshops, workshop �Vcan be thought of as an opportunity to search for the starting point of a nuclear abolition movement and create and connect the various "points,"as well as to think about possibilities regarding the routes that can connect these points with activities of handing down the experiences of A-bomb survivors. Panelists were asked to introduce their experiences based on these points. Takeshi Yamakawa As part of the generation of A-bomb survivors, Takeshi Yamakawa and Haruko Moritaki talked about their wishes for younger generations based on their experiences. Looking back on his long education as an A-bomb survivor of Nagasaki, Yamakawa talked about the history of his "Talk About Hopes and Learn About Hopes" education to high school students in order to enable children to be certain about a future in which we can live peacefully, based on his reflections on whether he had conveyed only the tragic aspects of the A-bombing to children. Haruko Moritaki Haruko Moritaki worked to help young people invited from India and Pakistan to Hiroshima on the occasion of those two countries' nuclear tests to depart from the idea that "nuclear weapons are necessary for the safety of their countries" by learning about the reality of the A-bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki as their starting point. She said that she had become certain about the importance of peace education through this experience, but she also pointed out that peace education in Hiroshima has come to a crisis. Moreover, she introduced her own experience of leading up to a campaign to ban depleted-uranium shells by conveying the real damage the shells inflicted in Iraq, of spreading radiation-induced physical damage just as was done in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nobuto Hirano Nobuto Hirano, a second-generation A-bomb survivor, became aware of being a second-generation A-bomb survivor when his childhood friend died of leukemia in his high school days. He introduced various activities in which he has been involved, such as a support campaign for second-generation A-bomb survivors, the Civil Peace Great Assembly, a relief cooperation for A-bomb survivors in South Korea, and activities of handing over the Nuclear Abolition Movement to the next generation through the high school student peace envoy dispatch and support for the 10,000 high school students' signature-collecting campaign. Emi Fujita Emi Fujita, from a younger generation, introduced her own course of realizing the significance of the succession of the Nuclear Abolition Movement. Fujita, who had not been enthusiastically involved in peace problems and atomic bomb-induced problems, has changed through production of a picture-story show based on the stories of A-bomb survivors she listened to, and came to realize the significance of the succession of the Nuclear Abolition Movement, feeling the responses from children. When she actually performed the picture-story, she was able to make a deep impression on participants. Barbara Streibl Barbara Streibl, who participated in the workshop from Germany just after her graduation from high school, introduced the development of her creative activities. She began her activities thinking that nuclear weapons must be eliminated after listening to her classmate's report about what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Her creative activities, which have been developed by exchanging information in a loose network with no fixed members nor advisory division, include the construction of a "Protective Wall of International Law", which "BANg!", a European youth network for banning nuclear weapons organized in 2005; and the participation in "Faslane 365." In the subsequent Q&A period, related to peace education mentioned by Yamakawa and Moritaki, questions on the critical situation of Hiroshima peace education were raised and opinions about the significance of peace education in public schools were expressed. With many high school students participating in the workshop, activities by the inter-university student group "Say Peace Project" were introduced from the audience. In this workshop, Hirano created a new network to connect points to one another by presenting to Streibl a DVD of A-bomb survivors' narratives produced by high school students in Nagasaki. This workshop made sure that people in the same generation as the A-bomb survivors could develop their experiences of the A-bombing (starting point) into expansive activities (exit point); that younger generations could participate in campaigns aiming to abolish nuclear weapons from various starting points; and that networks could be established by connecting these points (connecting horizontally and between generations). Although it might have been more desirable for ideal activities by generation, which were more multifaceted and did not rely only on young people, to be considered more, this workshop could not introduce enough of them in the limited period of time allocated to the panelists. However, we could at least get a hint of such activities.