Following on from what we have shared with you about ODS, we have today shared with you a novelty to inspire you: the Hiroshima City Public University will give access to the first Master's Degree in Peace Studies from April 2019.

As early as April 1998, the Hiroshima Peace Institute was founded in this city, where I was the city that experienced an atomic bombing. It aims to contribute to the abolition of nuclear weapons activities and to the cultivation and dissemination of peace throughout the world.

This Master's Degree provides a curriculum in which students will acquire:

• analytical academic methodologies in specialized areas, such as studies on peace, international politics, international law and international relations;
• the specialized, comprehensive, and necessary skills to analyze a diversity of real-world problems.

Students may become researchers with the intellectual capacity to propose effective preventive measures to avoid and resolve disputes; journalists and mass media specialists who have acquired the skills and capacity to share information with civil society and the international community from a peacebuilding perspective or international officials who can contribute to the design and formulation of international public policies aimed at to build and realize peace, and national and regional public servants involved with public policies and internationally related work.

To receive mobility students, the university will conduct special admission examinations and will also conduct some courses in English to accommodate these students. In addition, we have a monthly exemption system (with a registration review) to support the workers involved in the work of creating and disseminating peace.

Even if going to school mobility for Japan may not be an option, do not worry. We also found a Master's Degree in International Relations with specialization in Peace, Security and Development Studies in Coimbra. The master's degree aims to provide advanced training in the field of International Relations, based on the themes of peace, security, development and humanitarianism; to respond to requests for training that combines the deepening of conceptual and theoretical knowledge in these areas with the creation of advanced methodological and empirical skills applied to the topics under analysis.

And even if these are not hypotheses that you can ponder, let yourself be inspired by the ODS that we have shared with you and this wave of volunteering that runs Cascais.