Release Date:	1/10/2005

Quarter Million Dollars Raised for East-West Center
Tsunami Relief Fund

AsiaPacific Breakfast Briefing

Cassandra Pybus -- Islands of Globalization Featured Speaker

Seminar on International Humanitarian Law
Working Group Meeting: Macroeconomic Aspects of
Intergenerational Transfers

2005 International Graduate Student Conference

Pacific Trade and Development - PAFTAD - 2005 Conference

EWC Washington

In the Arts . . .
Exhibition: “Gods and Demons, Monkeys, and Men: Masks of Southeast Asia”
EWC Performance: The Inetnon Dancers from Inarajan, Guam

LOOKING AHEAD . . .

QUARTER MILLION DOLLARS RAISED FOR EAST-WEST CENTER TSUNAMI RELIEF FUND

The East-West Center Tsunami Relief Fund has collected close to a quarter of a million dollars from the Hawaii community, the Center's president, Charles E. Morrison, announced at a news conference on Friday, January 7.

Approximately $235,000 will be distributed directly to relief organizations on the ground that are working directly with tsunami victims in South and Southeast Asia, Morrison said. About half of the money has already been targeted and the Center will be carefully considering next week where funds that have been collected in recent days will go.

"We are touched by the extraordinary generosity of the people of Hawaii in responding to this disaster," Morrison said. "Never in our lifetimes has a natural disaster had such widespread impact over an entire region. And never has the world as a whole responded so generously to those in need.

"However, we must remember that the relief and rebuilding efforts will go on for months and years long after the television images have left our screens."

Morrison said the East-West Center is developing a program for the mid- and longer-term to help the rebuilding effort, develop warning systems, and helping establish more disaster-resilient communities.

Also attending the news conference to thank the community were Don Horner, president and CEO of First Hawaiian Bank, which helped collect funds at all its branches; Allen Clark, executive director of Pacific Disaster Center on Maui, which is managed by the East-West Center; and Jose Soares Turquel De Jesus, an East-West Center student from East Timor who is acting president of the East-West Center Participants Association. East-West Center students, many of them from tsunami-hit countries, have worked hard in the fund-raising effort.

"First Hawaiian is pleased to be working with the East West Center to make it convenient for Hawaii's people to respond to this mammoth disaster," said Horner. "Hundreds of people came to our branches to donate for the relief fund. It's yet another example of the generous heart of Hawaii's ohana."

Money was collected statewide, coming from thousands of individuals, including children and schools, and audience who attended a fund-raising performance at the East-West Center last Sunday. The organizations that will receive funds were chosen after consultation with East-West Center alumni and with U.S. embassies and consulates in the tsunami-affected countries. Relief organizations that will receive funding so far are:

-- $30,000 to WALHI, the Indonesian Forum for the Environment, which has approximately 200 volunteers on the ground in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, providing emergency medial supplies, sanitation, food and water. www.eng.walhi.or.id

-- $30,000 to Sarvodaya, a Sri Lankan relief organization that has pledged to take in and provide for children age 11 and under who have been orphaned in the disaster. The organization will also care for all women and girls below age 19. www.sarvodaya.org

-- $30,000 to Uplift International, which is working with Project HOPE to provide 14 tons of medicine and medical supplies to victims in North Sumatra, Indonesia. www.upliftinternational.org

-- $25,000 in matching funds to be met by East-West Center alumni chapters in the affected countries. Of that, $5,000 has already been matched by the Malaysia alumni chapter. That money will be distributed to Mercy Malaysia, a medial relief organization that is working in Aceh and Sri Lanka. www.mercy.org.my

-- $5,000 to be distributed by East-West Center alumni in Chennai, India, to buy fishing nets for fishing villages on Indian islands hit by the tsunami.

Regarding longer-term efforts, the East-West Center education staff is communicating with higher education, primary and secondary institutions on projects to help restore education programs in Thailand, Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Terry Bigalke, director of the Center's Education Program, will be visiting Aceh and Sri Lanka later this month. East-West Center student Muhamad Ali from Jakarta will also be volunteering in Aceh and traveling with Bigalke.

The Pacific Disaster Center in Maui, which the East-West Center manages, has three staff on the ground currently and is sending a fourth person to help relief efforts. The PDC has launched an online information system providing satellite imagery and other information crucial to the relief and rebuilding efforts in the affected countries.

Monetary contributions can still be dropped off at any First Hawaiian Bank branch or dropped off or mailed to the East-West Center, 1601 East-West Road, Honolulu HI 96848-1601. Online contributions can also be made at www.eastwestcenter.org

East-West Center, Pacific Disaster Center Activities Related to the Southeast and South Asian
Tsunami Disaster

The Indian Ocean tsunami is not history's deadliest natural disaster, but no previous disaster affected so many people in so many countries. With a 45-year history of working with the affected countries in Southeast and South Asia, the East-West Center (EWC) has been deeply impacted by the disaster. The East-West Center-managed Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) on Maui has an explicit mandate to assist emergency managers in the Indian Ocean as well as Pacific Ocean region. This brief memo outlines the contributions being made by the EWC and the PDC to the current relief effort and lays out a sustained program for research, education and dialogue to assist in the rebuilding phase and to increase the preparedness of the region for future disasters.

1. Contributions to the near-term response and recovery program
-- The East-West Center Tsunami Relief Fund was established on Dec. 27 and has raised about $235,000 as of Jan. 6. We will continue fund-raising and disperse these funds to organizations working with disaster victims on the ground. An East-West Center team will be leaving mid-month for Indonesia and Sri Lanka to monitor relief work supported by the EWC and to identify changing needs.

-- The Pacific Disaster Center has three personnel in the region providing data related services for the relief efforts.

-- The Pacific Disaster Center established the Indian Ocean Tsunami Geospatial Information Service to support emergency managers responding to the disaster. It is working with the ITSU and the International Tsunami Information Center (ITIC) to explore expansion of this service as part of the PDC Asia-Pacific Natural Hazards Information Network.

2. Contributions to rebuilding
-- The East-West Center team will assess rebuilding needs and carefully select areas where the Center has the capacity and expertise base to play a significant helpful role. We anticipate assisting in rebuilding educational institutions in the affected regions.

-- The Pacific Disaster Center will use geospatial data to assess damage and develop plans for rebuilding in a more disaster-resilient manner.

-- The East-West Center and Pacific Disaster Center are exploring a continuing monitoring role to help measure the progress of rebuilding efforts and identify any weaknesses to be addressed.

3. Contributions to Improving Disaster Warning and Preparedness
-- The East-West Center and the Pacific Disaster Center stand prepared to organize and support an international workshop on an Indian Ocean tsunami warning system.

-- The East-West Center and the Pacific Disaster Center are initiating an integrated program focused on building disaster resilient coastal communities in the Asia-Pacific region. This program would draw on their combined multidisciplinary expertise and technical capacities and emphasize a multi-hazard (tsunamis, cyclones, flooding, storm surges) to risk management in coastal communities. Elements of this program are: geospatial imagery, technology and modeling; training; and workshop and dialogue activities on risk reduction and management.

-- As part of the coastal communities effort, the EWC and PDC will engage in education and technical training to create institutions and individuals with knowledge of hazards and warning systems. We are also exploring a role of training for local media on disaster risks.

-- The East-West Center is exploring collaborative research activities on international disaster preparedness. The research would look at the weaknesses of the international disaster regime and needed improvements.
Media Contact: Susan Kreifels, Media Services Coordinator, East-West Center, (808) 944-7176
Email: kreifels@EastWestCenter.org

“Asia Pacific Outlook 2005”
A briefing on key political, economic and security issues in the Asia Pacific region.
Charles E. Morrison, Ph.D.
President, East-West Center

Tuesday, January 11 - East-West Center AsiaPacific Breakfast Briefing

The presentation is open to news media coverage.
To attend, or arrange for an interview, contact Susan Kreifels, EWC media services coordinator,
E-mail: kreifels@EastWestCenter.org

The briefing is from 7:15 to 8:15 a.m. at the Bank of Hawaii main branch, executive dining room, 6th floor.

Attendance is by invitation. Bank of Hawaii sponsors the East-West Center AsiaPacific Breakfast Briefings.

Islands of Globalization Featured Speaker--Cassandra Pybus
Burns Hall 3121/3125
January 20, 2005
Noon
Black Refugees of the American Revolution: Chesapeake Bay to Botany Bay, Yorktown to Freetown
During the American Revolution, tens of thousands of slaves allied themselves with the British in order to negotiate their freedom. When the British left America in 1783, they evacuated about 9,000 self-emancipated slaves to the imperial center in England and parts of the British colonial empire: Nova Scotia, Bahamas, Jamaica, St Lucia, the Mosquito Coast. This paper follows the path of two individual runaways from Virginia, one of them a runaway from George Washington, into two bizarre colonial experiments begun in 1787: the Province of Freedom in Sierra Leone on the west coast of Africa and the penal settlement of Botany Bay on the east coast of Australia. In howling wilderness, at opposite ends of the globe, their struggle to find dignity and self-determination provides an insight into the complexities of the African diaspora, as well as the slippery concept of freedom.

Cassandra Pybus is one of Australia’s most admired historians and writers. She is the author of ten books and Australian Research Council Chair in History at the University of Tasmania. Her latest book The Woman Who Walked to Russia , is a cross between travel, history and autobiography and was published in the USA in 2003. Her next book Jubilee is Come: Black Freedom and the American Revolution will be published by Beacon Press in February 2006.

Sponsored by the EWC-UHM Islands of Globalization Project and the UHM Center for Pacific Islands Studies.
EWC contact: Pacific Islands Development Program, (808) 944-7745
email: pidp@EastWestCenter.org

Seminar on International Humanitarian Law
East-West Center
January 8-15, 2005
Members of the Indonesian Supreme Court and Appellate Court will have an opportunity to discuss a wide range of legal, procedural, and investigative issues regarding international humanitarian and human rights law. Cosponsored by the East-West Center, Canadian Government Human Security Program, and Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center at the University of California.
EWC contact: Eugene Alexander (808) 944-7332,
email: AlexandE@EastWestCenter.org
Additional contact: David Cohen (808) 944-7236,
email: CohenD@EastWestCenter.org

Working Group Meeting: Macroeconomic Aspects of Intergenerational Transfers
UC-Berkeley, CA
January 14 -15, 2005
The Second Meeting of the Working Group on Macroeconomic Aspects of Intergenerational Transfers is part of an effort to develop national transfer accounts, a new system for measuring aggregate intergenerational transfers. The accounts consist of historical estimates and projections of intergenerational transfers in varying social, economic, and policy contexts. They will be used to analyze the inter-relationships between public policy, familial support systems, and economic conditions, and to analyze the macroeconomic and generational effects of public policy. The system of accounts is being estimated for seven economies, the United States, France, Brazil, Chile, Japan, Taiwan, and Indonesia. Cosponsored by the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging, UC-Berkeley (CEDA) and EWC.
Coordinator: Andrew Mason.
EWC contact: Carolyn Eguchi, (808) 944-7510,
email: eguchic@EastWestCenter.org

2005 International Graduate Student Conference
East-West Center
February 17 - 19, 2005

4th East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference

This year’s conference is intended to appeal broadly to graduate student scholarship in the social sciences and humanities, and to policy-oriented intersections with applied sciences including environmental science, health, and population studies. It welcomes historical, contemporary and future-oriented papers from all disciplines. The theme of the conference is “Asia Pacific Challenges: Global, Regional, National and Local Perspectives.” There are 129 registered participants and 138 presentations scheduled for the three-day conference—more than double the number of presentations offered a year ago. Participants include students from throughout the Asia Pacific region as well as North America and the United Kingdom.
For more information,
email: studentconference@eastwestcenter.org

Pacific Trade and Development - PAFTAD - 2005 Conference
Imin Center-Jefferson Hall
February 19 - 21, 2005
PAFTAD is an informal private academic conference series that, since its origins in 1968, has developed into a driving force behind the development of thought on Pacific trade and development issues and important economic policy questions facing the region.

The ideas and discussions generated by PAFTAD have helped drive and shape other Pacific economic cooperation organizations, including Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference.
Each PAFTAD conference is organized around a particular theme, and research papers addressing the topic are presented and discussed. The results are published in the PAFTAD volume series.
EWC contact: Sumner La Croix, (808) 944-7508, email: lacroix@EastWestCenter.org

EWC Washington

February 7, 2005 (tentative)
Congressional Study Group on Asian Security "Changing Sino-Japanese Relations: Implications
for the United States"
Speakers: Ed Lincoln, another speaker to be determined.

February 18, 2005 (tentative)
Congressional Study Group on Asia Pacific Commerce: Topic to be determined.
(Sessions are closed)
For more information, please email Washington@EastWestCenter.org

In the Arts . . .

EWC Exhibition: “Gods and Demons, Monkeys, and Men: Masks of Southeast Asia”
January 26 - March 16, 2005
This exhibition illuminates the mask theatre of Indonesia, Thailand, and Cambodia, indicating relationships to theatres of Burma, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Malaysia. The character types displayed show the expanse possible to the human and cosmic soul. The guest curator, Prof. Kathy Foley, and three Indonesian performers will be visiting between Feb.16-20 presenting demonstrations and lectures to students and the public.

This exhibition is made possible by generous grants from the Hawai’i Pacific Rim Society, the Jackie Chan Foundation USA, the Arthur Goodfriend Fund, and generous contributors to the EWC Foundation. Thanks to the Fulbright Program in Indonesia (AMINEF), the Asian Cultural Council, the UC Pacific Rim Program, the UCSC Arts Division and Arts Research Institute, the UCSC Committee on Research, and the East-West Center Asian Studies Development Program.

Gallery hours are Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday noon-4 p.m. Closed Saturdays and holidays. Admission is free. Visitor parking on the adjacent UH campus is $3 and is usually easily available on the upper campus after 4 p.m. weekdays; Sunday parking is normally free and ample.

EWC Performance: The Inetnon Dancers from Inarajan, Guam
February 7, 2005
Imin-Center Jefferson Hall Lanai, EWC
12:00-12:45 p.m.
Admission Free
Limited chairs available, please bring mats

This group of 14 middle school students, under the direction of Vince Reyes, has become famous throughout the Pacific for their extraordinary efforts to preserve and perpetuate Chamorro culture.

This performance is made possible by the Hawai’i Pacific Rim Society and the generous contributors to the EWC Foundation.

LOOKING AHEAD . . .
2005
Contact information and dates are subject to change.

March 3-4
People on the Move: Globalization and Diaspora
EWC contact: Wendy Nohara
email: noharaw@EastWestCenter.org

March 5-6
Innovation, Global Production, And Work: Why Is Chip Design Moving To Asia?
Berkeley, California
EWC contact: Dieter Ernst, email: ErnstD@EastWestCenter.org

March 7-9
22nd Population Census Conference
Seattle, Washington
EWC contact: Jiajian Chen, email: ChenJ@EastWestCenter.org

March 8–12
Integrating Social Science Methods into Emerging Infectious Disease Research
EWC
EWC contact: June Kuramoto, kuramotj@EastWestCenter.org

March 7-18
4th Building the Foundation Training Seminar: Pacific Islands Power Utility Managers
EWC
EWC contact: Meril Dobrin-Fujiki
email: fujikim@EastWestCenter.org

March 18-20
Natural Resources and Violent Ethnic Conflict in the Asia/Pacific Region
EWC
EWC contact: Carolyn Eguchi
email: EguchiC@EastWestCenter.org

April 18-21 (tentative)
Asia Pacific Executive Forum Luncheons
U.S. mainland
EWC contact: Abigail Sines, email: sinesa@EastWestCenter.org

April 21-24
Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP) Eleventh Annual National Conference
Whittier, California
EWC contact: Grant Otoshi, email: otoshig@EastWestCenter.org

May 1-28
Jefferson Fellowships, Spring
EWC, U.S. mainland, Asia
EWC contact: Ann Hartman
email: Seminars@EastWestCenter.org

May 31 – June 30
36th Summer Seminar on Population
EWC
EWC contact: June Kuramoto
email: KuramotJ@EastWestCenter.org

June 20 – July 22
ASDP NEH Institute – Southeast Asia: The Interplay of Indigenous Cultures and Outside Influences
EWC
EWC contact: Peter Hershock
email: hershocp@EastWestCenter.org

June 21-July 18
AsiaPacificEd Travel Seminar -- Experiencing Southeast Asia: Vietnam and Thailand
For U.S. teachers, school librarians and administrators in grades 3-12.
EWC and Southeast Asia
Application Deadline: February 1, 2005
EWC contact: Gordon Walker,
email: walkerg@EastWestCenter.org

July 10-21
4th Changing Faces: Women’s Leadership Program
EWC
EWC contact: Abigail Sines
email: sinesa@EastWestCenter.org

July 12
“An International Affair 2005” – The EWC Foundation’s Annual Dinner
Coral Ballroom, Hilton Hawaiian Village
EWC contact: Stephanie Handa
email: handas@EastWestCenter.org

July 23-August 6
AsiaPacificEd Institute -- Teaching Southeast Asia: Strategies, Standards, and Resources
EWC
For 3rd-12th grade classroom teachers in the U.S. and Asia Pacific region.
Application Deadline: February 1, 2005
EWC contact: Gordon Walker
email: walkerg@EastWestCenter.org

July 25-August 12
ASDP Institute on Infusing Asian Studies into the Undergraduate Curriculum
EWC contact: Peter Hershock
email: hershocp@EastWestCenter.org

August 7-10 (tentative)
Senior Policy Seminar
EWC
EWC contact: Jane Smith-Martin
email: smithj@EastWestCenter.org

August 7-12
AsiaPacificEd NEH Workshop -- Remembering Pearl Harbor: History, Memory, and Memorial
Imin Center-Jefferson Hall
Open to U.S. high school social studies/history and language arts teachers.
Application Deadline: February 1, 2005
EWC contact: Gordon Walker
email: walkerg@EastWestCenter.org

August 28 – 31 (tentative)
Muslim Initiative: Journalists Study Tour
U.S. mainland
EWC contacts: Abigail Sines, email: sinesa@EastWestCenter.org
and Dick Baker, email: BakerR@EastWestCenter.org

August 28-31
15th New Generation Seminar
EWC and Asia Pacific
EWC contact: Ann Hartman
email: hartmana@EastWestCenter.org

September 1-10 (tentative)
Muslim Initiative: Journalists Study Tour (CONT. from August)
EWC contacts: Abigail Sines, email: sinesa@EastWestCenter.org
and Dick Baker, email: BakerR@EastWestCenter.org

September 1-11
15th New Generation Seminar (CONT. from August)
EWC contact: Ann Hartman
email: hartmana@EastWestCenter.org

September 7-21 (tentative)
7th Hong Kong Journalism Fellows
China and Hong Kong
EWC contact: Marilyn Li, email: lim@EastWestCenter.org

2006
November
(to be determined)
EWC/EWCA 2006 International Alumni Conference
Hanoi, Vietnam
EWC contact: Gordon Ring, email: ringg@EastWestCenter.org