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Panelists in a recent East-West Center online forum spoke about the need to apply knowledge amassed by Indigenous people over thousands of years to addressing climate change and other environmental challenges.

Speaking at a virtual press conference for Pacific Islands journalists, Congressman Ed Case said that the US needs to ‘show up’ more in the region. Case described friction between the US and China in the Pacific as a geopolitical "contest of wills as to who can really present the best alternative." ...more...

In a recent webinar, journalists who cover long-simmering enmities between neighboring countries discussed facing political pressure, entrenched attitudes of ethnic and religious animosity, lack of access to sources, disinformation, and threats to their personal safety. ...more...

As dam-building projects continue to proliferate along Southeast Asia’s vital Mekong River, experts in a recent online discussion panel agreed that the area is fast becoming overloaded with them, dredging up far-reaching issues ranging from international friction and industry “water grabs” to widespread ecological disasters and the growing impacts of climate change. ...more...

In an AsiaPacific Issues report on Legal Identity and Statelessness in Southeast Asia, human rights scholar Christoph Sperfeldt explores why millions of stateless people across the region lack legal citizenship—the majority of them members of minority populations living in the country of their birth. ...more...