In his analysis of military violence in Okinawa, Tomiyama Ichirō contemplates the tensions of what he calls “large and small politics,” arguing that “Peace is not something that we can design through the applied mechanics of international politics. Peace is the social that can only be realized in the process of trying to create it” (353). Following Tomiyama’s call for work that bridges and complicates the divide of theory and practice, this panel examines the convergence of colonialism and militarism in Okinawa through an interdisciplinary engagement with public forms of shared knowledge production. Approaching Okinawa across time and space, this panel addresses U.S. military water contamination and the potentially subversive uses of technology (Saito); legacies of Japanese colonialism between Okinawa and the Philippines (Buyco); the complicated web of shared connections and isolations experienced by Black soldiers stationed in Okinawa (Caldwell); and the poetics of legal testimonies against U.S. military noise pollution caused by Kadena Air Base (Ikehara). In its transnational and interdisciplinary approach, this panel applies pressure to the persistent legacy of Cold War knowledge structures that divide Asian and Asian American studies, asking: How do technologies have the potential to both deepen and obscure our relationship to land? How are memories of colonialism made and remade through public forms of memory? How must we reimagine our conceptions of safety and community across overlapping projects of race and injustice? Through these questions, this panel centers public modes of knowledge to pursue a collective vision of peace through the social.