Confronting Fukushima's Anxieties: the Repercussions of Thyroid Cancer Screening No1
1. Activities as a community mediator
This report details a community symposium that
convened on August 4, 2014 at the Ryozen Satoyama School in the
Ryozen-machi district of Date City in Fukushima Prefecture.
In my role as a community mediator over a
two-year period starting in March 2012, I teamed up with municipal
health workers in Date City, Fukushima, to give around 200
radiation-related health lectures and 100 radiation counseling sessions
that included visits to local residents in their homes. These
activities stressed dialogue with local citizens, placed value on their
thoughts and feelings, and on that basis sought to harness local
resources and outside sources of support and find solutions to the array
of challenges then facing their community. To better highlight the
salient features of this approach, I refer to myself as a “community
mediator.”
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