During last week’s Pacific Islands Forum summit events in Fiji, East-West Center President Suzanne Puanani Vares-Lum presented Tonga Red Cross Vice President Drew Havea with a check for $20,000 raised by the Center community to assist with recovery from Tonga’s devastating volcanic eruption and tsunami early this year. ...more...

East-West Center Senior Adjunct Fellow Charles E. Morrison writes that even the many critics of slain former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wouldn't disagree that he was the country's most consequential leader in recent times. ...more...

To help address how sea-level rise, pollution, and infrastructure development are increasingly threatening river delta communities and ecosystems in Southeast Asia, the East-West Center is launching the Vulnerable Deltas Initiative, thanks to a grant of $945,000 from the Henry Luce Foundation. The initiative will explore the intersection between climate change, water pollution, and socio-economic transformations that threaten human and ecological health in the deltas....more...

Alan Miller, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and founder of the News Literacy Project, and Gandolgor Purevjav, lifecoach and founder of the Ganabell Institute of Success received the East-West Center Distinguished Alumni Award at a celebratory luncheon on June 30. The award recognizes outstanding accomplishments, including significant contributions to the promotion of better relations and understanding among the peoples of Asia, the Pacific, and the United States; significant career achievement; and continuing support for the goals and objectives of the Center. ...more...

The EWC Interntional Media Conference featured over 40 speakers including Nobel laureate Maria Ressa, Former President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands Hilda Heine, Meta's Head of Security Policy Nathaniel Gleicher, and Acting Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Liz Allen. Read the all our coverage of the 2022 International Media Conference here.