566. "The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace"(Editor in Chief: Nigel Young)が完成，発行。(2010/04/16掲載）

　Nigel Young 編集長の下で、"The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace"　が完成した。Young　編集長が脳梗塞で倒れるなど困難が極め，出版が何年も遅れたが、今年3月に Oxford University Press kから出版できた。ハードカバー全4巻で、£300だが今年の6月中までは£200で頒価される。日本では、Amazon で\38,946を6％ off で\36,636で配送無料で頒価するという。
　第2巻のＪ項のJapan のところには、Peace Constituion of Japan(by Hisashi Nakamura),　Peace Movements in Japan(by Mari Yamamoto), Japanese Peace Museums(by Kazuyo Yamane) の項目があり、Peace Muvements"  は5ページにわたる叙述になっており、そこには以下のようなベ平連運動についての解説が出されている。この項目は山本真理さんの執筆。

……Later Postwar period： Vietnam and Beyond
Organized labor increasingly withdrew from the leftist peace movement in later years amid Japan'ｓ economic boom, and the anti‐nuclear weapons movement split up in l963 owing to rivalry among the socialists and communists. Amid the general disarray of the peace movement, major mass organizations including political parties were unable to demonstrate leadership in antiwar activities when the United States began bombing North Vietnam and devastating the South, after 1965. So liberal and leftist intellectuals began organizing loosely knit groupings of individuals to unite them only in one purpose, namely, to oppose the U.S. military action in Vietnam. They refrained from contesting other ideological issues to avoid sectarian division and became a magnet for a large number of citizens, including activists of the New (mainly student) Left as well as those who took a dim view of the increasingly violent political agitation by New Left radicals．
　Such unofficial groupings were called the Japan "Peace for Vietnam Committee" (Beheiren）, which was affiliated with no political or any other mass organizations. They were much influenced by the ideas of the American New Left: they embraced civil disobedience and urged the public to act spontaneously in the capacities of individuals rather than passive members of mass organizations, as had often been the case in earlier postwar years.
　Amid the ensuing ideological radicalization, Beheiren activists assisted the desertion of American soldiers and urged G.I.s to oppose their officers at U.S. bases in Japan. The presence of U.S. military installations in Japan, especially Okinawa, also raised the issue of Japan's own complicity in the Vietnam War, and the realization led activists to open their eyes to their country's present and past war responsibility. Their rigorous critique about Japan's war crimes also later led to a movement to investigate and compensate for the wrongs suffered by foreign victims of Japan's war, including the Chinese, Koreans, and Filipinos．……（pp.530〜531）　　　　　　　
　このほか、日本については、Hiroshima Panels　という項目がある。また、Civil Disobedience や　Non-violence などの項目は詳しい叙述がある。