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  GOMEZ Oscar A.
   Department   Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University College of Asia Pacific Studies
   Position   Associate Professor
■ Education
1. 2008/04~2011/03 〔Doctorial Course〕 Human Security, Graduate School Division of Human and Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, Completed, Doctoral degree (Environmental Studies)
2. 2006/04~2008/03 〔Master Course〕 Human Security, Graduate School Division of Human and Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, Completed, Master degree (Environmental Studies)
3. 1997/01~2002/12 Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Colombia, Graduated
■ Message
Message to undergraduate students: The university is an exceptional place to explore many different ways through which we humans try to make sense of our world. Leave your comfort zone as often as possible and enjoy. Message to graduate school students: Find interesting questions and devote yourself to their answers. Write and discuss your ideas frequently with all types of persons. Make a habit of carefully listening to others.
■ Current specialized field
International Relations, Disasters, Environmental policy (Key Word:Global governance, human security, humanitarianism, constructivism, disasters, displacement, epidemics, famine, international cooperation, climate change, adaptation, development, crisis, emergency, nexus, East Asia, Latin America, ethics) 
■ Books and theses
1. 2025/05/09 Book The State as a Humanitarian Actor: Opportunities and Challenges in Decolonizing Humanitarianism Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law 26,pp.43-73 (Single)  Link
2. 2025/03/31 Article Ethics for a breaking world: capabilities, intervention, responsibility, impartiality Journal of Global Ethics 21(1),pp.133-145 (Single)  Link
3. 2024/02/13 Book International humanitarianism in East Asia Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality pp.411-425 (Collaboration)  Link
4. 2024/02/13 Book The Latin American experience: inequality's role in shaping humanitarianism Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality pp.458-473 (Collaboration)  Link
5. 2023/11/29 Article Global social challenges for development studies in the Crisis in the Anthropocene Global Social Challenges Journal 2(2),pp.229-246 (Collaboration)  Link
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■ Academic or professional association memberships
1. 2023/09~ Japan Society for Humanitarian Action Studies Link
2. 2020/04~ Japan Association of International Relations
3. 2017/10~ International Studies Association
4. 2016/03~ International Humanitarian Studies Association
5. 2012/06~2018/06 Human Development and Capability Association
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■ Conference presentations
1. 2025/11/09 The Humanitarian Paradox in Crises Cooperation: Can Japan's Experience Change the Paradigm? (15th annual conference of the Japan Association for Human Security Studies)
2. 2025/10/20 Integrating Global South Voices in International Relations Teaching (Global South Voices: Four Decades of Excellence and Contemporary Approaches in International Relations Education)
3. 2025/10/17 Missing the forest for the trees? Historical lessons from Colombia’s disaster risk management in an armed conflict context (International Humanitarian Studies Association conference 2)
4. 2025/10/17 What is humanitarian about “the missing”? A critical perspective from two South American case studies (International Humanitarian Studies Association conference 2025)
5. 2025/09/26 Can peripheries integrate? A humanitarian perspective to transpacific cooperation (“Horizontes compartidos: historias, conexiones y oportunidades en torno al Pacífico”)
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■ Research topic, funded research and KAKENHI
1. 2018/07~2021/03  Comparative Study of Global Policies on Humanitarian Crisis  (Key Word : )
■ Educational ability
● Made textbook and teaching material
1. 2013/02 Human Security Guidance Note
■ Professional contribution to Society
1. 2018/10~2019/01 A human security index for Japan(国内)
2. 2018/08~2019/02 Workshops for the Humanitarian Encyclopedia project(国外)
3. 2018/06~2019/02 Working group for Climate-Fragility risk assessment(国内)
4. 2012/08~2012/08 UNESCO Youth Forum “Looking Beyond Disaster”(国内)
5. 2011/09~2011/09 Human Security Summer School(国内)
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■ Committee and society
1. 2020/04/01~2021/03/31 JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute Visiting fellow Link
2. 2018/07/17~ International Network of Disaster Studies Conference, Iwate University, Harvard University and Tsinghua University, to be held Steering Committee member
3. 2017/06~ Humanitarian Encyclopedia, Centre for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action (CERAH), Geneva. https://humanitarianencyclopedia.org/ Scientific Committee member Link
■ External Researcher ID
orcID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9419-295X