Future Leaders’ Program for Global Peace (5th cohort) Participant Interviews
Since 2016, Hiroshima Prefecture has been hosting the Future Leaders’ Program for Global Peace in order to educate the current generation of high school students on how to achieve world peace. The program takes more than half a year, during which time the students study English, learn about international issues such as nuclear disarmament and conflict resolution, and participate in the Hiroshima Junior International Forum, where they hold discussions with students from around the world. The program was cancelled in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, but it resumed in 2021 after a two year hiatus. I sat down with Kubo Hinata and Nakamura Kokomi, who both completed the program in February 2022 as members of the 5th cohort, and asked them about their experiences.