Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies c.perrottet@hji.edu Dr. Claude Perrottet is a trained scholar and a published author with a Master of Divinity from UTS and a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion from Canada’s Laval University. Dr. Perrottet teaches courses in HJI’s Graduate Program in Peace Studies and previously taught in the Graduate Program of Global Development and Peace Studies at the University of Bridgeport. He has notably published “Immanuel Kant’s Perpetual Peace: The New World Order of Critical Philosophy,” a book on Kant’s...

Adjunct Associate Professor Basil Ugorji, Ph.D. is a peace and conflict scholar. Dr. Ugorji’s research focuses on innovative approaches to navigating the complex landscape of traumatic memories of war and violence. His expertise lies in contributing to the profound task of achieving national reconciliation in postwar transitional societies. With research published in peer-reviewed journals such as Ethnic Studies Review, and currently serving as the editor of the Journal of Living Together, Dr. Ugorji is dedicated to fostering scholarly discourse and advancing new knowledge in the field....

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Ministry Acknowledged by NY as among the Staten Island Power 100 & as NYC Power 100 Religious leaders for the past 5 years, Rev. Dr. Demetrius S. Carolina has distinguished himself as an effective regional proven leader. He serves as Senior Pastor at First Central Baptist Church. He is also CEO of Dior Consultants LLC, a de-carbonization alternative energy development corporation. He is an Adjunct Professor at St. John’s University in the School of Education & HJ International Graduate School. He served as Executive Director of the Central Family...

Freelance educational consultant, editor, and author Contact: Dr. Jennifer P. Tanabe Dr. Tanabe studied Psychology in her home country of Scotland before moving to the United States as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Child Development. In addition to teaching graduate level courses, and serving as the Social Sciences Editor for New World Encyclopedia, she works as a freelance educational consultant, editor, and author. Her interests cover a broad range of topics in the Social Sciences, particularly as they relate to Unificationism, as evidenced in...

Lecturer in Korean Language Christina Miyake is a Lecturer in Korean Language at HJ International Graduate School for Peace and Public Leadership. A native English speaker, she has studied the Korean language most of her life, including time abroad in South Korea as an adolescent and again as a university student. Having begun her undergraduate studies at Northwestern University, her desire to further her Korean language study led her to uproot her life in the United States and move to South Korea, where she received her undergraduate degree at Sun Moon University. While living in South...

Professor of Scriptural Studies Dr. Andrew Wilson is Professor of Scriptural Studies at HJI (formerly UTS), where he has been teaching for over 30 years. His book World Scripture: A Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts (1991) is a standard in the field of interfaith studies, and World Scripture and the Teachings of Sun Myung Moon (2007) was designated by Rev. Moon as one of the eight official textbooks of Unificationism. He led the editorial committee for Exposition of the Divine Principle (1996) and collaborated with Rev. Joong Hyun Pak to write True Family Values (1996, 2003). He has...

                                t.walsh@hji.edu President; Professor of Religion and Peace Thomas Walsh serves as the 7th president of HJI and as professor of Religion and Peace. He is the executive editor of the International Journal for Peace and Public Leadership and publisher of HJI Press.  He is chairman of the Coalition of Faith-Based Organizations and the chair of the Sunhak Peace Prize Selection Committee.  Research Statement The study of religion and interreligious relations is profoundly relevant to the pursuit of peace.  Research Interests Dr. Walsh’s research and work as an...

Lecturer in Family Counseling Lynn Walsh taught Sociology and Behavioral Science courses for over 15 years at the University of Bridgeport and Mercy College including Human Sexual Behavior, Gender Role Dynamics, Approaches to Parenting, Marriage Enrichment, Family Issues Today, and Marriage and Relationship Education. She has been teaching as an Adjunct at HJ International for over ten years. Lynn is the Director of the Universal Peace Federation’s Office of the Family and represents UPF at the UN. Lynn serves on the Executive Committee of the NGO Committee on the Family, NY at the...

Professor of Philosophy; Associate Provost                                  k.noda@hji.edu Dr. Keisuke Noda is a philosopher whose work examines the question of what it means to be human. His research develops the idea of an ontology of beginnings, exploring how meaning arises from the human capacity to initiate new actions and possibilities. Drawing on phenomenology and philosophical hermeneutics, he engages thinkers such as Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Viktor Frankl, while also incorporating insights from psychology, including Csikszentmihalyi’s theory of flow....