The Disaster Management and Resiliency in the Asia Pacific Journalism Fellowships program is co-sponsored by the Center for Global Partnership. This new 14-day professional dialogue, study and travel program is designed for 12 working print, broadcast and online journalists from the United States, Japan, China and those Asian and Oceanic countries bordering the tectonic Pacific Plate. It will introduce participating journalists to a broad range of disaster management activities in the United States and Japan as well as post-disaster challenges to political, economic and energy resiliency. Emphasis will be placed on:
- disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery efforts at the local, federal and international levels;
- government, military, business and civil-society initiatives successful in reducing risk and in providing assistance post-disaster;
- resilience to recover from disasters and the maintenance of political structures, economic markets, energy policies and the functionality of society in the wake of a catastrophe;
- impact of recent catastrophic natural disasters on economic markets and supply chains throughout the Asia Pacific region;
- responses to the Fukushima nuclear crisis and the future of energy policy and security in the Asia Pacific region.
2012 DISASTER MANAGEMENT AND RESILIENCY JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIPS
Dates: May 13 – 27, 2012
Study Tour Destinations: San Francisco, California; Honolulu, Hawaii; Tokyo, Japan; Sendai, Japan
Funding: East-West Center and the Center for Global Partnership
The program covers all air transportation, lodging, and program-related ground transportation and meals for participating journalists.
Given the recent Great East Japan Earthquake and the resulting tsunami and nuclear crisis, there has been a rethinking of how governments and communities prepare for and respond to disasters. Disaster management demands cooperation among both a wide variety of stakeholders within an affected country, as well as among the international community, to preserve and maintain the resiliency of political structures, economic markets and energy policies. In response, the East-West Center is proud to announce its new Disaster Management and Resiliency in the Asia Pacific Journalism Fellowship program.
The 2012 Disaster Management and Resiliency Journalism Fellowships program will introduce participating journalists to a broad range of disaster management activities in the United States and Japan as well as post-disaster challenges to political, economic and energy resiliency. In San Francisco, journalists will examine lessons learned from the Loma Prieta earthquake that struck the San Francisco Bay area of California on October 17, 1989 and measured 6.9 on the Richter scale. In addition, California, particularly the San Francisco area, is considered a leading U.S. example of disaster management as well as renewable energy development. Honolulu, meanwhile, will provide the journalists with a more regional understanding of disaster prevention and mitigation and will include additional examples of alternative power generation. In Japan, the journalists will visit the capital city for an assessment of how the Japanese government and disaster-response agencies handled the Great East Japan Earthquake and the resulting tsunami and nuclear crisis; and what lessons were learned. Additionally, the journalists will examine nuclear power and energy policy in Japan from a variety of perspectives. In Sendai, the East-West Center will expose the journalists to the personal side of natural disasters through discussions with students, aid workers and community members. In both the United States and Japan, the role and responsibility of the media to accurately report on disasters will be explored.
Congratulations to the 2012 Disaster Management and Resiliency Journalism Fellows:
- Hiroko AIHARA, Freelance Journalist, Fukushima City, Japan
- Cynthia BALANA, Senior Reporter, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Makati City, Philippines
- Tom BANSE, Regional Correspondent, KUOW Radio, Olympia, Washington, United States
- Christopher BODEEN, Beijing Correspondent, The Associated Press, Beijing, China, United States
- Tadashi IDEISHI, Senior Commentator, NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
- Hisayoshi INA, Foreign Policy Columnist, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Nikkei Inc. Tokyo, Japan
- Mona KHANNA, Medical Contributor, Fox Chicago News, Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Belinda MCCAMMON, Chief Reporter, Radio New Zealand, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Ake PRIHANTARI, Producer, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Jakarta, Indonesia
- Holly QUAN, Reporter and Anchor, CBS Radio, San Francisco, California, United States
- Hiroko TABUCHI, Business and Economics Correspondent, The New York Times, Tokyo Bureau, Japan
- Ellen WULFHORST, National Correspondent, Thomson Reuters, New York City, New York, United States
- Weining ZHONG, Reporter, China Central Television (CCTV), Beijing, China
CONTACT INFORMATION
Liz A. Dorn
Program Coordinator, Seminars
East-West Center
1601 East West Road
Honolulu, Hawaii 96848
(tel) 808-944-7368
dorne@eastwestcenter.org