Mikang Yang is co-chairperson of the steering committee of the Asia Peace and History Education Network and International History Forum on Peace and History, where she executes various programs in the field of historical reconciliation. She has, for example, developed materials for history classes and various campaigns related to historical matters, and she has conducted programs such as the Youth History Camp with participants from Korea, Japan and China. Dr. Yang’s work in the field history dialogue and history reconciliation also takes up the relationship between Korea, Japan, and China. She currently serves as coordinator for the publication of an alternative textbook available in all three countries entitled History to an Open Future, which is the first collaborative history textbook in East Asia. Previously Yang worked as secretary general of the Korean Council for the drafted Military Sexual Slavery by Japan from 1997-2002. She also serves as senior pastor of the Hanbaik Presbyterian Church, and in 1998 she completed her doctor of ministry degree. As an AHDA fellow, Mikang Yang seeks to develop a methodology for history and peace education that can be applied to different programs promoting historical reconciliation, and that will increase mutual trust among states and citizens in East Asia, where historical dialogue has become increasingly difficult because of territorial conflicts and the prevalence of parochial nationalism.
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