The State of Hawai'i's 2020 Climate Conference was held at Imin Center Jan. 13-14, featuring keynote speaker author David Wallace-Wells (pictured) and many others. Click for video and info:
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Delegations from Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, and Palau helped chart the course for a new era in the Center’s Pacific Islands Development Program.
In December, EWC's media exchange staff organized a week-long Indo-Pacific Regional Reporting Tour in Hawai'i for nine senior Thai security journalists sponsored by the US Embassy in Bangkok. The journalists met with a wide variety of US defense and disaster-management officials and experts, as well as local media.
This year's 13 Pacific Islands Leadership Program with Taiwan fellows recently concluded their two-month program with a special completion ceremony in Taipei. Applications for the 2020 PILP program are being accepted through Feb. 29.
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.
Ten alumni of the Pacific Islands Tourism Professional Fellows Program recently gathered in Vanuatu to take part in an incubator workshop with several American counterparts and participate an international Sustainable Islands Tourism Conference on the island of Espiritu Santo.
Senior Fellow Marcus Noland writes in a new East-West Wire commentary that rising diplomatic tensions between South Korea and Japan are putting American security interests at risk at a critical time, with a South Korea-Japan intelligence-sharing agreement, aimed at North Korea, hanging in the balance. ...more...
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...
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