Author: Lam Peng-Er

Source: Asian Ethnicity, Volume 5, Number 3, October 2004 , pp. 353-366(14)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

Japan seeks to play the role of a peace-maker in Aceh. This includes organising international conferences in Tokyo to facilitate peace and offering substantial aid to the combatants to cease hostilities. Japan and the Swiss-based Henri Dunant Centre (HDC) have a division of labour in Aceh. But Tokyo can offer what the HDC cannot: a multi-million dollar aid package and bringing together many governments and international organisations to support peace in Aceh. Tokyo will have to play a patient game by offering aid to the combatants and wait until they, utterly exhausted by the civil war, embrace peace.

Keywords: Japan; peace-building diplomacy; Henri Dunant Centre; Aceh; civil war

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1463136042000259798

Affiliations: 1: East Asian Institute The National University of Singapore

Publication date: 2004-10-01

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