About PGL

Peace as a Global Language (PGL) was conceived in the anxious year following ‘911, by teacher activists in Japan. “Wanting to emphasize peace, feeling very sad and worried,” they envisioned “a healing conference devoted entirely to social awareness and socially aware teaching”. PGL conferences have been attended by activists, aid professionals, government and UN workers, and academics and students, from inside and outside of Japan since 2002. Links to information on previous PGL conferences are on the About section of our Facebook page.

PGL also organised a tour and conference at the Management University of Africa, in Nairobi in 2016, taking a group of ten teachers from across Japan, the first step on the way to making PGL truly global in nature. In 2017, PGL worked with Mount Kenya University to bring scholars and researchers from outside of Africa to the beautiful city of Kigali for the Emerging Issues in English Education and Language Conference as part of an education tour to East Africa. 

The inaugural Occasional Paper of the PGL's invited Occasional Paper Series, "Key Issues and A Framework for How Peace Can Be Conceptualised and Applied: An Approach of Peace as a Global Language", presents one approach to how how PGL can conceptualise peace, and peace as a global language.