Kobayashi Ayako

(小林綾子)

Profile Information

Affiliation: Associate Professor, Faculty of Global Studies, Department of Global Studies, Sophia University

Degree: Bachelor of Law(Sophia University)
Master of International and Administrative Policy(Hitotsubashi University)
Doctor of Law(Hitotsubashi University)

Researcher number: 50845146
J-GLOBAL ID: 201901012487192493
researchmap Member ID: 7000029060

Research Interests

Research Areas

Research History

Apr, 2023 - Present

Associate Professor, Faculty of Global Studies Department of Global Studies, Sophia University
Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2023

Assistant Professor by special appointment, Faculty of Global Studies Department of Global Studies, Sophia University
Sep, 2021 - Mar, 2022

Adjunct Lecturer, Faculty of Global and Interdisciplinary Studies, Hosei University
Apr, 2020 - Aug, 2021

Part-time lecturer, Hitotsubashi University
Aug, 2017 - Mar, 2019

Research Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

Education

2012 - 2019

Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University
2007 - 2009

Global Governance Program, School of International and Public Policy, Hitotsubashi University
2004 - 2007

Department of International Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, Sophia University

Committee Memberships

Jan, 2022 - Present

member, Study Group on the UN Security Council Law and Policy hosted by the United Nations Policy Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
Oct, 2022 - Sep, 2025

Conference Organizing Committee, JAUNS
Jun, 2020 - Jun, 2024

Board Member, Okinawa Peace Assistance Center
Jan, 2024 - Mar, 2024

Temporary member of the Committee for Awarding of Degrees, National Institution for Academic Degrees and Quality Enhancement of Higher Education
Apr, 2021 - Dec, 2023

FTGS Executive Committee Member-at-Large, ISA

Awards

Papers

How the UNHCR Began Its Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons: The Case of Algeria from the Late 1950s to Early 1960s

Ayako Kobayashi

Refugee Study Journal, (13) 100-111, Mar, 2024 Peer-reviewed
Conflict Recurrence and Peace Agreements

Ayako Kobayashi

International Relations, (210) 95-110, Mar, 2023 Peer-reviewed
UN Peace Operations and Local Peace

Ayako Kobayashi

The United Nations Studies, (22) 157-181, Jun, 2021 Peer-reviewed
Humanitarian Access in Civil Wars: The Politics of Insurgents’ International and Domestic Legitimacy

Ayako Kobayashi

Ph.D. dissertation, Hitotsubashi University, Mar, 2019
Humanitarian Access Constraints and Rebel Groups in African Civil Wars

Ayako Kobayashi

International Relations, (186) 80-96, Jan 30, 2017 Peer-reviewed

Misc.

What Is a State? From the Birth and Death of States to the Problems of Unrecognized and Failed States

Ayako Kobayashi

Jikkyou Materials for History, Geography, and Civics, (101) 1-5, Sep, 2025 Invited

Attachment
(Book review) Kazumi Abe, The Chaotic Independent Movement in West Papua: Whereabouts of the Struggle for "the Land of Peace"

Ayako Kobayashi

11 107-109, Mar, 2025 Invited
Translator’s Commentary: International Relations in the Age of Difficulty in State Birth and Death

Ayako Kobayashi

James Ker-Lindsay and Mikulas Fabry, Secession and State Creation, Sep, 2024
(Review Essay) Protection of Civilians and the Responsibility to Protect Twenty Years On: From Coercion to Non-Coercion, From Intervention to Prevention

Ayako Kobayashi

International Relations, (211) 140-149, Nov, 2023 Invited
(Book Review) Tatiana Carayannis and Thomas G. Weiss, The "Third" United Nations: How a Knowledge Ecology Helps the UN Think, Oxford University Press, 2021.

Ayako Kobayashi

The Study of the United Nations, (24) 179-184, Jun, 2023

Books and Other Publications

Conflict Resolution in International Society: Theories and Case Studies

Kosuke Togashi, Nagafumi Nakamura (Role: Contributor, Chapter 6 Mediation and Negotiation)

Horitsu Bubka Sha, Nov 8, 2025 (ISBN: 4589044420)
The Contemporary Reader of Feminist International Relations

Catherine Goetze, Khushi Singh Rathore (Role: Contributor, Sadako Ogata, Human Security and Ethics of Care)

Routledge, Jul 8, 2025 (ISBN: 1032422688)
International Organizations: Theory and Practice

Sho Akahoshi, Ayako Kobayashi, Daisuke Madokoro, Azusa Uji, Naoko Matumura, Ryuya Daidouji (Role: Editor, Chapter 1 A History of International Relations, Chapter 7 Peace and Security)

Horitsu Bunka Sha, Apr 5, 2025 (ISBN: 4589043939)
Studies of International Relations: How to Understand the Global Society [New edition]

Atsushi Yamada (Role: Contributor, Part VI, Chapters 7-9, Humanitarian Intervention and Responsibility to Protect, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding, Human Security)

Yushindo, Mar 13, 2025 (ISBN: 4842055898)
Refugees and Their Agencies: Beyond the "Object of Protection"

Satoko Horii (Role: Contributor, Chapter 7 An Analysis of Agency on UNHCR's Social Cohesion Assistance)

Akashi Shoten, Feb 20, 2025 (ISBN: 4750358916)

Presentations

Regional Perspectives on Global Governance

Ayako Kobayashi

NAVIGATOR Regional Policy Workshop "Navigating Uncertainty in Global Governance", Oct 29, 2025, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and Delegation of the European Union to Japan Invited
The Quad as a Minilateral Hub of Security Cooperation

Ayako Kobayashi

Workshop "Women, Peace, and Security in the Quad’s Commitment to a Free and Open Indo-Pacific", Oct 23, 2025, Center for Indo-Pacific Affairs, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Invited
Deliberative Democracy and University Education

Ayako Kobayashi

Japan Association of Global Governance, May 11, 2025 Invited
Sadako Ogata and the UNHCR Archives

Ayako Kobayashi

Asian Studies Conference Japan, Jul 7, 2024
(Chair) The Role of E10 in the UN Security Council

Ayako Kobayashi

ACUNS Annual Meeting, Jun 22, 2024

Major Teaching Experience

Sep, 2023 - Present

Peace and Conflict Studies (Sophia University)
Sep, 2022 - Present

Seminar (International Relations)
Sep, 2021 - Present

Academic Skills for Global Studies
Apr, 2019 - Present

Conflict Resolution (Sophia University)
Apr, 2019 - Present

Peace Research (Sophia University)
Apr, 2019 - Present

Advanced Studies: International Human Rights (Sophia University)
Apr, 2019 - Present

International Organization: Theory and Practice (Sophia University)
Apr, 2019 - Present

International Politics: Theory and Practice (Sophia University)

Professional Memberships

Research Projects

Southeast Asia in the Age of Human Rights

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2025 - Mar, 2028
Status Politics and Conflict Recurrence: Peace Negotiations in the Gray Zone between Statehood and Non-Statehood

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Apr, 2024 - Mar, 2028

Ayako Kobayashi
A comparative study of multilateral diplomacy in the issue-areas of non-traditional international security: focusing on “Humanitarian-Peace-Development nexus” approach at the Global Refugee Forum

Sophia University Special Grant for Academic Research (Research on Optional Subjects), Sophia University, Sep, 2024 - Mar, 2026

Midori Okabe
International Refugee Protection Regime Revisited: Challenges and Opportunities

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2025

Satoko Horii, Rieko Karatani, Akiko Sugiki, Tomoya Kamino, Ryuya Daidouji, Sayoko Iizasa, Ayako Kobayashi
Analyzing Armed Actors in Peace and Conflict Studies: A Decade after the Independence of South Sudan

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2025

Ayako Kobayashi

Social Activities

Diplomatic Archives: Expert comment on the United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Ghali visits Japan in February 1993

Filming support, Consultant, Official expert

Kyodo News, Dec 16, 2024

Media Coverage

自分ごととしての紛争と紛争解決から考える持続可能な未来

読売新聞, https://yab.yomiuri.co.jp/adv/sophia/view/view_11.php, Dec, 2020 Newspaper, magazine

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