THE SASAKAWA PEACE FOUNDATION

Since being founded in 1986, the Sasakawa Peace Foundation has conducted a large variety of projects all over the world in collaboration with NPO's and researchers. As a result of these activities, we have accumulated a large number of reports, lecture proceedings and papers. However, since the content of many of these publications were highly specialized, there was not a big market for it, and therefore it was not possible to distribute the information to the public through commercial publishing channels. As a result, the fruits of our accomplishments were shared only among those involved in the projects, despite our desire to reach a larger audience. Therefore, we were drawn to the interactive nature of the Internet and BookPark's unique information distribution system. With BookPark only the necessary number of publications could be bound and printed (starting with just one), information could be sent as electronic data or in print, and publications could be made up of a combination of words, images, and sound.

The main objective for using BookPark is to take the information that SPF has and release it on the Web in order to reach a wider audience. However, we also hope that by doing so, people will evaluate our activities that cannot be adequately measured by the market mechanism. Since the year 2000, SPF has been conducting the 'Information Distribution from Asia Program.' This program is aimed at distributing and sharing information, not only on projects that the SPF has been involved in, but a wide variety of intellectual information from Asia to the world, through the medium of publications, electronic information, conferences and seminars. We have decided to utilize BookPark as part of this aim, and are the first NPO to make such an attempt. We hope to use this site not only for selling publications, but to create a page for sharing information, in order to further promote public understanding of activities of the non-profit sector.

●	Prospect of "Re-democratization" in Thailand
●	Russia's Shift towards Asia
●	A Map for Achieving Islam and Democracy
●	The Futre of the Enlarged EU and Its Relations with Asia, Especially Japan
●	The Formation of Networking Cooperation among Small Enterprises in Central Europe
●	Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Central Europe: An Overview
●	Asian Voices: Promoting Dialogue between the US and Asia -Strange Bedfellows: Samuel Huntington and the Advocates of Asian Values -Crises in Myanmar and East Timor: The Case for Japanese-American Cooperation -US-Japan Relations in the Age of Globalization -Korea and Asian Security in the 21st Century -Crisis in Central Asia: Economic Decline and the Threats of Regional Destabilization -Prospect of Multilateral Security in the Asia-Pacific - A Chinese Perspective -Japan's Asia Policy -ASEAN's Evolving Regionalism -Seoul's Engagement with Pyongyang -Asian Populism and the U.S -The Culture Clash and Political Breakdown -From Manufacturing to Knowledge-based Industries -China-U.S. Cooperation -Chinese Rebellions -The East Asian Community -The Rising China -Assessing President Bush's East Asia Trip -States, Societies and Civilizations -Memory Wars
●	Ten Years of the Sasakawa Southeast Asia Cooperation Fund
●	Civilization Dialogue with Islamic World after September 11th
●	Dialogue with Islamic Civilization
●	Civilizational Dialogue: Hinduism and the World
●	Civilizational Dialogue: Hinduism and the World (II)
●	Civilizational Dialogue: Hinduism and the World (III)
●	Civilizational Dialogue: Dialogue with Islamic Civilization
●	Myanmar after the Release of Aung San Suu Kyi
●	The Future of Korean Peninsula and International Cooperation
●	Report on the Comprehensive Results of the Survey of Demand on Training Programs
●	Renovation of Financial and Currency Policy and Control of the Inflation in Vietnam
●	Assistance Program on Reform of Finance and Monetary Policies for Vietnam
●	Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia: The Path to Economic Development
●	Economic Reform in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan: Lessons from the East Asian Development Experience
●	Transformation in Kazakhstan: Issues and Challenges
●	Economic Reform in Uzbekistan: Characteristics and Responses
●	Economic Reform in Turkmenistan: Issues and Challenges
●	Culture and Identity - Ethnic Coexistence in Asia: Programme Concept
●	Culture and Identity - Ethnic Coexistence in Asia: Tokyo Conference
●	Culture and Identity - Ethnic Coexistence in Asia: Recommendations for Policy and Further Study
●	Myanmar and the Responses of the International Community and Japan