The proposal in this paper outlines an idea for a Korean Peninsula focused Peace Cruise starting from Jeju World Peace Island and going up the eastern coast of the peninsula ， taking in a port or two in Japan (such as Fukuoka) to accommodate potential Korean-descended passengers there and ending at Wonsan, where a grove of Jeju King Cherry (Prunus Yedoensis var. Nudiflora) trees could be planted progressively as a welcome avenue for those on the peace cruise ship. This grove of Jeju King Cherry trees will grow each time a Jeju World Peace Island Peninsula Cruise arrives. Wonsan has been a holiday place for the DPRK for some time and with the permission of that country could become a limited and controlled international destination for Peace and, perhaps, other cruise tours. There are precedents internationally for special zones to be declared for specific activities. Such places frequently become economic development zones for the host country. After successful itineraries have been shown, the Jeju World Peace Island ship could extend its cruise north to ports on the Kamchatka Peninsula and west to Chinese ports interested in the concept

The thought occurs that through “Korean Tolerance” Wonsan and the Jeju “Peace Port” at Gangeong village could be linked as “sister holiday places” by ferry, which sailing could include other ports to promote peace and Korean tolerance cruises featuring entertainment from all parts of the peninsula. Those Korean relatives in Japan could meet their DPRK families on Jeju and at other places on the Korean Tolerance cruise itinerary. There no doubt are many barriers to such a proposal as a peace and Korean Tolerance voyage between the DPRK and RoK, but the principle of Korean Tolerance and exchange between Wonsan and Jeju World Peace Island should be able to overcome such difficulties with good will throughout the peninsular polity.. “Korean Tolerance Peace Cruises” would serve to promote cultural exchange by using artists from all of Korea to learn from one another’s experiences, using their common language, shared culture and deep history.

The meeting between The Chairman and The President should take place on Jeju Island instead of a place foreign to Korea? The DMZ is tainted still with the armistice and the conflict that preceded it. Jeju-Do is Korea’s one “self-governing autonomous province”. And on the “Sammu-Samda-do” (Island of three nothing kinds and many three kinds) is the most appropriate place for such a decisive summit should be Gangjeong village, with the closure of the unnecessary naval base preceding it and its conversion to a prosperous cruise ship hub in the centre of north Asia. These events together would produce a legacy for both the Chairman and the President, as well as historically noting Jeju’s decisive role in Korea’s history, divided or reunited.

“The price of peace is eternal vigilance” (Thomas Jefferson) is the theme of this paper presented to the August 2017 Jeju World Peace Academy Bultuk and what we can do to achieve this. Gölbekli Tepe (12,000BP) is the oldest megalithic construction being a creation of a Peace Island, established by pre-urban, pre-agricultural nomadic human groups seeking to establish the natural condition of the human species in all times and in all places: peace. The first glimmer of settled urban peace flourished with the peace island civilizations of the Mediterranean. So, people – even “a small group of thoughtful, committed people” (Mead) such as those at the Naval Base protests at Gangjeong village on Jeju Island – can establish their own “Peace Island” on dry land (Gölbekli Tepe) or at sea (ancient Cyprus and Crete). The contemporary “Peace Island” concept that grew out of the “veiled state violence” (McCall) of the 4.3.1948 Tragedy has led to Jeju being declared a “Peace Island”; this concept can be franchised anywhere in the world with symbols and emblems and by any group of “thoughtful, committed people” using the Haenyeo Bultuk consultation methodology.

I want to explore some of the efforts that people living on small islands on this Island Earth have used to manage peace in their often remote places, distant from state government as all of us know it and very immediate in consequences. At the end of my conceptual survey, I propose that a space for peace could be created on Jeju Island, the Peace Island, and that an appropriate mechanism could be something we might call the “Jeju Peace Island Peace Bultuk” where interested parties can come to discuss in cultural calm and natural beauty their seeming diffculties. I give my reasons throughout the paper why I have selected Jeju Peace Island as a place for peace not only for its conditions today, but owing to features of its special cultural history. Looking at a map again, Jeju is quite separate from its neighbours in East Asia. Whilst being politically a part of the Republic of Korea, it is an autonomous region where constitutionally it could create special conditions that would permit it to assume a global role in peace negotiations. That crucial location in East Asia is a symbolic shift from the European Atlantic to the Asian Pacifc as the new locus of world power, culture and economy. Jeju’s location is very much in accord with Asia’s growing importance in world affairs. By establishing a World Peace Tribunal or “Bultuk” on Jeju Peace Island it would acknowledge this power shift as the reality that it is. On 27 January 2005, the Government of South Korea declared Jeju “Peace Island” laying the foundation for this proposal. A little over a year later, on 1 July 2006, the Republic of Korea advanced even further by declaring Jeju Peace Island an “Autonomous Self-Governing Province”, providing the basis for the place to assume an international and independent role in world affairs. Unlike existing European focused places of peace, Jeju is a small island with a small population, without global commercial, economic or political interests as is the case with The Netherlands, Switzerland and the USA, respectively. Apart from being an island with restful scenery and many pleasant places where such a World Peace Tribunal could be established, there are characteristics of the ancient Jeju culture that I think make it an appropriate place for the twenty-frst century experiment in world problem solutions.