IAFOR held its 2025 Spring Conference Series from May 11 to 16 in Tokyo, Japan. This conference series brought together 586 delegates representing 343 institutions from 52 countries to The 16th Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities (ACAH2025), The 15th Asian Conference on Cultural Studies (ACCS2025), and The 16th Asian Conference on Social Sciences (ACSS2025). The conference served as a platform for person-to-person diplomacy, with plenary programmes addressing how a ‘culture of peace’ and a sense of ‘global citizenship’ can be cultivated in an increasingly interconnected and simultaneously more polarised world. The keynote presentations at the conference covered a range of IAFOR’s Conference Themes for 2025-2029, with a primary focus on global challenges, the role of education and communication in addressing them, and various approaches to fostering peace and understanding in an increasingly complex global situation.
