Learning Across Borders: Taiwan, Gaza, and My Responsibility in an Unequal Reality

Written by Roi Silbeberg. This essay traces an encounter between Taiwan’s White Terror memory and the unfolding devastation in Gaza to argue that peacebuilding must confront asymmetries of power, not obscure them. Moving across intergroup dialogue, identity formation, and international responsibility, it insists that silence sustains violence, and that ethical clarity, political engagement, and global accountability are conditions for any meaningful future.

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Living on the Frontline: What Kinmen and Gaza Teach About Peace Under Continuous Threat

Written by Hazem Almassry. Visiting Kinmen, a Taiwanese frontline-turned-tourist site, the author reflects on living under continuous threat, comparing it to Gaza. Both challenge conventional ideas of peace as post-conflict stability, revealing instead how people adapt to enduring militarisation and structural violence, in which “peace” often means managing rather than resolving ongoing conditions.

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Grassroots Citizens in Taiwan Use Digital Tools to Build Whole-of-Society Solidarity

Written by Yen Lin (mashbean) Huang. This article argues that Taiwan’s experience demonstrates that the digital space need not be characterised by quarrelling and indifference, or a tool for stronger control and deeper division. It can also be a space of digital collaboration that unites people and builds solidarity. The true divide lies not in which technology is adopted, but in whether society retains agency.

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River and Sea · Plateau · Resonance: The Possibility of Peace in a Turbulent World

Written by Kefei Cao. The author traces her personal and historical journey across the Taiwan Strait, moving from lived encounters to reflections on war, memory, and coexistence. Drawing on Lung Ying-tai and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, she proposes theatre as a space for reimagining peace beyond binary divisions, where vulnerability, dialogue, and shared humanity become the grounds for fragile yet enduring connection.

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Taiwanese Peace as a crucial engagement to advance decolonisation for Japan

Written by Yoshitaka Ota. This article argues that the first step toward contributing to Taiwanese peace is to stop creating a common enemy between Taiwan and Japan and to start taking Taiwanese agency seriously. Japan should also exercise its agency to recognise and depart from the permanence of coloniality, which continues to create China as a common enemy, rather than looking at itself as the enemy once.

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