Noted international relations scholar and former national security official Robert Sutter spoke in an EWC Distinguished Lecture about the implications of the U.S. government's hardening stance toward China, which has accelerated rapidly over the past year. Watch video.

Members of the East-West Center’s Board of Governors have elected board member and former Punahou School President Dr. James K. Scott to succeed attorney Richard Turbin as the board’s chairman. The board also selected Bank of Hawai'i CEO Peter Ho as Hawai'i Vice Chair. ...more...

Corporation for Public Broadcasting President and CEO Patricia de Stacy Harrison spoke at EWC October 1, delivering a strong call for support of journalistic accuracy and fairness in a era of increasingly fractured digital audiences and media opinion "bubbles." Watch video of Harrison's address.

With international resources and financial support for HIV programs in the region declining, researchers Tim Brown and Wiwat Peerapatanapokin write in a new East-West Wire commentary that it is more important than ever for prevention efforts to achieve maximum impact by targeting the key populations most at risk. ...more...

Recently the East-West Center’s NOAA-supported Pacific RISA climate impact research group hosted this year’s national meeting of RISA teams from across the country at Imin Center. Each year, the eleven teams from various regions meet to share best practices, including the pictured session on innovations that different teams have made in designing impact assessment tools and methods.

A dozen Pacific Island journalists recently met at EWC in Honolulu and toured to Washington, DC; Galveston, Texas, and San Francisco on a reporting trip before holding a capstone dialogue in Fiji, all part of the inaugural journalism tour under the Center’s new Countering Disinformation in Southeast Asia and Oceania Program.

This fall’s cohort of 21 young Southeast Asian environmentalists interacted with EWC staff and community members at a recent showcase for the Center's Institutes for Natural Resource Managers leadership program. The group's month-long US study tour marks the 10th year that EWC has been running the State Department-supported training programs.