ABSTRACT
How can justice surrounding the nuclear accident be achieved? After the accident, many citizen activities seeking justice for the impact of the accident emerged. However, they were often at odds with each other and unable to cooperate because they had different short-term goals or different ideas about what constitutes justice, partly due to the complex relationship between the kind of harm and those who were harmed by the nuclear accident. This chapter identifies the nuclear industry and the nuclear accident as an example of a source of structural violence and asymmetric conflict from a peace study perspective. Strategic coordination among citizen activities based on a strategic just-peacebuilding model will be proposed. This strategic just-peacebuilding model consists of four steps: awareness-raising about harm and the right to speak out (Step 1), creating conflict in a non-violent way (Step 2), dialogue and negotiation (Step 3), and capacity-building for a sustainable just-peace social structure (Step 4). By situating citizen activities in each step of the model, we can recognize that each of these activities is important toward building justice, even if the short-term goals are different, yet the lack of coordination hinders the achievement of all steps toward just-peacebuilding.
