ABSTRACT
The goal of this chapter is to highlight ways in which tourism can be used to raise awareness and foster global citizenship to promote a culture of peace. For example, globally the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki connote the memory of catastrophic violence in being home to the world's first atomic bombings. However, as touristic destinations the cities can transcend the calamitous representations of violence embedded in the landscape, by affording an amazing opportunity to engage in peace education for a global citizenship. This chapter highlights these two cities, in order to examine the tensions and paradoxes in such an example of tourism, offering an analysis that links human security to global citizenship and thereby envisioning a model for peace tourism.
