ASIA‑PACIFIC
CENTER FOR SECURITY STUDIES
SUMMARY OF COMPLETED
CONFERENCES & OUTREACH EVENTS
(Publications are available on the web site, www.apcss.org)
FY08
Joint
Mongolian/U.S. Emergency Preparedness and Risk Reduction Workshop. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 10-14 Mar 2008. This workshop was co-sponsored by the
National Emergency Management Agency of Mongolia and the Asia-Pacific
Center for Security Studies, with the
assistance of the Institute of Strategic Studies, the Pacific
Disaster Center,
and the United States Embassy, Ulaanbaatar,
Mongolia. Thirty-seven representatives from Mongolia and the United States participated in this
workshop. Participants represented
various agencies from the Government of Mongolia, the Institute for Strategic
Studies, the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, the Pacific Disaster
Center, and the National
Emergency Management Agency. The
specific objectives of this workshop were to:
1) review likely and possible
disaster scenarios; 2) increase
networking and relationships across governmental agencies; 3)
develop proposals for governance and doctrine improvements to enhance
disaster management planning and risk reduction, 4)
identify measures to increase whole of government disaster resilience;
and 5)
outline “next steps” and milestones for the development of a readiness
and sustainment program at the interagency and operational level and to provide
these next steps Mongolia’s executive leadership for emergency
preparedness.
Pandemic
Tempest. Honolulu,
Hawaii, 10 Jan 2008. This event was held at the request of
Governor Linda Lingle, and the Secretary of Defense Strategic Policy Forum and in
coordination with U.S. Pacific Command.
This was the second pandemic influenza exercise conducted at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. The exercise provided a forum for 73 Federal,
state, and local officials to assess the range of policy options available to
the U.S.
in responding to an outbreak of pandemic influenza.
Regional
Counterparts Workshop. Honolulu,
Hawaii, 14-16 November 2007. This workshop was designed as a
collaborative, multi-national workshop of presiding officials from security
studies institutes across the Asia-Pacific region to address shared major
regional and global security issues. The
intent of the workshop was to identify collaboration interfaces related to
educational and leader development concepts and means, research partnering, and
faculty exchanges. Specifically, the
goals of the 29 participants were to identify opportunities in the areas
of: virtual participation and curriculum
enhancement via Video Teleconferencing (VTC), partnering to co-host and/or
facilitating/presenting on Outreach events in a conference, workshop or
research project format, enlist regional Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to participate in select APCSS events, explore
adjunct-faculty opportunities, potential joint efforts in publications and
research projects.
U.S. - Japan- China Tri-lat on
Confidence and Security Building Measures (CSBM) #2. Island of Hawaii,
4-6 Dec 2007. This workshop, developed in coordination
with the Stanley Foundation, was a follow-on, trilateral track 1-1/2 Working
Group action which developed concrete and realistic Confidence and Security
Building Measures that can be implemented to contribute to reducing the dangers
of misunderstanding, miscalculation, and conflict, and to the misapprehension
of military activities. Workshop
participants drafted a consensus-based paper with concrete CSBM recommendations
for respective governments. There were
21 participants representing China; Japan; the Stanley Foundation;
Headquarters, U.S. Pacific Command; Headquarters, Pacific Air Forces; and the
Asia-Pacific Center.
U.S. State
Department’s East Asia Pacific (EAP) Chief of Mission Conference - Honolulu, October 2007
APCSS provided key
support to U.S. Pacific Command for the U.S. State Department EAP annual
meeting of all U.S. Ambassadors from Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, and
Oceania
U.S. Pacific
Command’s Chiefs of Defense Conference – Honolulu, 31 October – 2
November 2007
Hosted and conducted
by the Commander, U.S. Pacific Command this conference was the tenth annual
meeting of Asia-Pacific Chiefs of Defense and the U.S. Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff.
FY 2007
9th Chiefs of Defense Conference:
Meeting Security Challenges with Capabilities and Cooperation. Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia,
November 13-15, 2006. Co-hosted
by the United States Pacific Command and Malaysia Armed Forces with
coordination support from the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. Fifty-two participants, including 23 Chiefs
of Defense from Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Comoros, France,
Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Mongolia,
New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tonga, the United States, and Vietnam. One and one – half days of sessions focused
on current defense challenges and cooperative approaches to meeting these
challenges in the Asia-Pacific region.
Exercise Global Tempest.
Honolulu, Hawaii, December 9, 2006. Sixty-eight
attendees from the federal executive and state level participated in this one
day conference. This conference examined the strategic implications of a global
influenza pandemic and analyzed the range of U.S. preparedness, detection,
response, and containment options available throughout the pandemic alert and
pandemic period.
Working
Group on Trilateral Confidence and Security Building Measures. Honolulu, Hawaii, 10-11 January 2007. This working group was co-sponsored by the
Stanley Foundation. Twenty-one representatives from the China, Japan and the
United States participated in the first meeting of this multi-phase project.
This meeting developed a tentative consensus on where to focus the
efforts of the national teams in order to establish concrete and realistic
confidence and security building measures that can be implemented to contribute
to reducing the dangers of misunderstanding, miscalculation, and conflict, and
to the misapprehension of military activities. The working group made progress
toward developing a common language and understanding with which to discuss
possible confidence and security building measures between our three countries,
established a menu or list of both traditional and nontraditional confidence
and security building measures for the national teams to explore, and produced
a common timeline for future meetings and the submission of the proposals of
each national team.
Managing Porous
Borders In Southeast Asia: Building International Cooperation, Good
Governance and Intra-Government Cooperation. Phnom
Penh, Cambodia,
27 February – 2 March 2007. Forty representatives from Australia, Burma, Cambodia,
Laos, New Zealand, Thailand,
the United States, Uruguay and Vietnam participated in this
conference. This conference examined how various levels of
inter-agency officials in the governments of South East
Asia nations coordinate and share useful information to delineate
and control borders and correspondingly deal with all forms of trafficking
challenges, including human, drug, weapons, and animals, as well as terrorist
transits and disease control. Break-out group discussions specifically
address management techniques, procedures, technology and organizations related
to efforts conducted by governments and non-governmental organizations in
mainland South East Asia.
Energy Security Cooperation in the
Asia-Pacific. Tokyo Japan,
17-19 April 2007, co-hosted with the Japan Institute of International Affairs
(academically independent institution affiliated with the Japanese MFA ). Conducted event based on
Ambassador Thomas Schieffer’s (USEMB Japan) proposal
for a multi-national forum to improve regional understanding and cooperation on
Asia-Pacific energy issues. 41
participants/observers from Australia,
China, Japan, Kazakhstan,
Lithuania, Panama, ROK, Russia,
and U.S. met to develop a
framework for characterizing dimensions of Asia-Pacific energy security, to
identify areas for coordinate institutional and policy action, to re-examine
existing, and formulate fresh regional approaches to energy management, and to
articulate effective strategies for sustained cooperative action. The Conference provided a unique venue
for robust and candid discussion of various national perspectives and policy
options among senior security practitioners and energy experts.
Democratic
Control of the Security Forces Workshop. Kathmandu, Nepal,
28-31 May 2007. In conjunction with Center for Civil
Military Relations (CCMR) and the Nepal-based South Asia Center for Policy Studies (SACEPS),
APCSS conducted event within the frame of an IMET-funded series of events on
“Democratic Transitions and Civil Military Relations”. Participants included 6-10 Nepali officials
from six major political parties of the Seven Party Alliance (SPA) in Nepal, as
well as 3-5 representatives from smaller youth-based parties; 15-18 officials
from the Nepal Army, Nepal Police, Armed Police Force and the government’s
Defense and Home Ministries; 5-8 security analysts and academics from the
Nepal-based Centre for Nepal and Asian Studies; and U. S. Ambassador J Moriarty
and his Nepal country team. These events
were based on U. S. Ambassador
Moriarty’s desire to support governance-strengthening events that would build
on the results of an APCSS-Center for Nepal and Asian Studies (CNAS)
co-sponsored workshop in September 2006.
Intent was to enhance the capacity of Government of Nepal (GON)
institutions and leaders during their ongoing Democratic transition. This Workshop provided a unique venue for
further robust and candid discussions among various political and bureaucracy
leaders, highlighting the sharing of current security-issue perspectives.
Disaster Management Workshop. Brunei, 6-9
Aug 2007. The focus of seminar
discussions was to better understand of how a high-level government
coordination and advisory body manages disaster relief efforts conducted by the
government of Brunei. Included in discussions were (1) disaster-relief
management facility requirements; (2) procedures for timely and accurate
situational understanding of the various dimensions of the disaster; (3)
methods of coordinating and supervising internal government and non-government
response efforts; and (4) managing the interface with involved external
organizations
Security Sector Reform, Bangladesh, August 2007. Held in coordination with U.S. Pacific
Command, this workshop facilitated a series of working group sessions to
stimulate and enhance dialogue among the security sector leader/practitioners
as well as to generate ideas and proposals for security sector reform in
Bangladesh that can contribute to democratic consolidation and political
stability in the country.
Conference
on Transitions of Power: Democratic
Enlargement in Asia. Honolulu, Hawaii, January 27-29, 1997. Co-host:
The Asia Foundation. 40 participants from Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan,
South Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Taiwan, and the United States. Topics included: Transitions
in the Military Role, Structuring Transparency in the Political Process,
Mongolia's Election and Transitional Experience, Governance and Party Politics,
Economic Reform and Its Impact on Political Liberalization, and Implications for Regional Stability.
1997
Pacific Symposium. Honolulu, Hawaii, April 28-29, 1997. Co-host:
National Defense University Institute for National Strategic
Studies. 260
participants from Australia, Canada, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea,
Philippines, Russia, Thailand, United Kingdom and the United States. The Symposium concentrated on the utility and
missions of military forces of the Asia-Pacific nations. The objective was to develop a military
balance assessment of where Asia-Pacific military forces are today as well as
where they are going tomorrow; to assess present and future force structure,
with the resultant understanding of how the militaries of the region will
interact with each other and the United States; and to describe some concepts
for how to effect constructive engagement among Asia‑Pacific defense
ministries and forces.
Environmental
Change and Regional Security Conference.
Honolulu, Hawaii,
June
9-11, 1997. Co-host: The Center for Strategic Leadership, US Army
War College. 60 participants from
Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Mongolia,
Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, the United States, and Western Samoa. The purpose of the conference was to provide
a forum in which national officials, academics, and military officers could
explore the security implications of environmental change within the
region. Plenary sessions focused on
topics such as
A Framework for Thinking About
Environmental Change in Asia, Environmental Challenges to Regional Stability
and Conflict, Environment as a Catalyst for Asia-Pacific Cooperation, and
Defense Cooperation in Environmental Protection issues.
Annual Conference of the
Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies:
Asia-Pacific Security For the 21st Century. Honolulu, Hawaii, November 3-6, 1997. Co-host: none. 165 participants from 35
countries. Participants from
Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Canada, China, Cook Islands, England, Federated
States of Micronesia, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia,
Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mongolia, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue
Island, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Solomon
Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tonga, Tuvalu, the United States, Vanuatu, and
Vietnam. Plenary panels focused on
dynamics of the Asia-Pacific from a sub-regional perspective. Four working groups addressed new dimensions
in the region with topics such as Political
Transition, Social Change, and Regional Security; Economic Development and
Regional Security; Military Modernization, Technological Change and Security;
and Transnational Security Issues.
2nd Annual Conference on U.S.-Japan Security
Relations. Honolulu, Hawaii, November 19, 1997. Co-host: Japan Defense Research Center. 25 senior level governmental and academic
participants from Japan and the US discussed topics related to the security
environment of the Asia-Pacific Region and the US-Japan security
relationship. Topics included: Potential
Threats and Flashpoints and The
Guidelines Review and Implications for the Future.
FY 2006
Japan’s Foreign and Security Policies: Alternatives, Drivers and Implications. Tokyo, Japan, October 4-6,
2005. Forty-two delegates from Australia,
China, Japan, Republic of Korea, Singapore, United Kingdom and the United
States. Japan and the U.S.-Japan
alliance are the linchpins of American security policy in the Asia-Pacific
region. Japan’s foreign and security
policies are the therefore of critical importance to long-term regional
stability and U.S. interest in the region.
This conference sought to achieve three core objectives: 1) To
assess the ongoing debate within Japan about foreign and security policy
alternatives available to the country, with a view to determining what
direction will most likely be taken by Japan, 2) To assess the various factors that shape the
decisions and directions taken by Japan regarding its foreign and security
policies in an effort to ascribe relative importance to factors, 3) To assess the implications of these possible
alternative directions and factors on the U.S.-Japan alliance and key Asian
security issues.
8th Chiefs of Defense Conference: Shaping
Collective Efforts to Counter Transnational Threats. Honolulu, Hawaii,
October 24-26, 2005. Hosted
by the United States Pacific Command with coordination support from the
Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. Fifty-seven participants, including 23 Chiefs
of Defense from Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Canada, Comoros, Fiji,
France, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mongolia, New
Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste,
Tonga, and the United States. One and
one – half days of sessions focused on current defense concerns and challenges
that will have overlapping effects on the militaries and nations in the
Asia-Pacific region.
Strategic Communication and the Regional Centers. Honolulu, Hawaii, November
1-3, 2005. Thirty
participants from Germany and the United States. This conference was designed to share
concepts and “best practices” among the Regional Security Studies Centers on
how they can and do support national and regional Combatant Commanders’
Strategic Communication program and to develop a set of “Next Steps” aimed at
moving discussion of synergizing Strategic Communication efforts of the various
regional centers within a regional multinational context.
Northeast Asia and Mongolia: Opportunities and Challenges. Honolulu,
Hawaii, November 8-10, 2005. Forty representatives from Mongolia, China,
Japan, South Korea, Russia,
Canada and the United States
participated in this conference. The
conference was co-sponsored by the School
of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies
of the University of Hawaii and the East West Center.
The Mongolian
Academy of Management was
another major contributor. The collective effort of Honolulu based think
tanks and educational institutions was unprecedented and very rewarding in
terms of covering a wider than usual scope of security issues and providing a
stronger interdisciplinary approach. Among the key objectives for the
conference was to assess the role of Mongolia
in regional processes in Northeast Asia, such
as economic integration, development of common infrastructure, use of energy
resources, protection of environment as well as cooperation in fighting
transnational crimes. Since Northeast Asia is one of the priority areas
of Mongolia’s foreign
policy, the conference was designed to assess the current state and future
prospects of Mongolia’s
relations with her immediate neighbors in order to understand their likely
impact on U.S.–Mongolia partnership and key Asian security issues. One of the
major outcomes of the conference was the identification of new opportunities
for promoting multinational cooperation in Northeast Asia-
a region that has been lacking in mutual confidence, security interaction, and
regional institution building.
Countering the Support Environment for
Terrorism in Southeast Asia. Honolulu,
Hawaii, 31 January – 2 February
2006. Forty-two representatives from Australia, Indonesia,
New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore,
Thailand and the United States
participated in this conference. This
conference drew participants from the United States as well as countries
in the Asia-Pacific Region to focus on the spread of militant religious
ideologies and the growth of transnational ‘enabling’ factors that allow
illegal mobility and access to weapons and funding. The objectives of the
conference were: to assess and
understand the ideological underpinning of terrorism in the region (and its
causes) and current trends; to assess the transnational ‘enabling’ factors,
such as crime, porous borders, availability of small arms and explosives, that
helps sustain terrorist organizations; and to assess current measures by states
(and regional organizations) to counter terrorism and to identify any
limitations that are acting as barriers to success.
Terrorism, Geopolitics and
Multinational Security Cooperation in Central Asia. Honolulu,
Hawaii, 22 – 24 February
2006. Thirty-three representatives from China, India,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan,
Russia, Taiwan, United
States and Uzbekistan participated in this
conference. This conference
addressed the global war on terrorism, the momentous transformations in Central Asia, and the impact of these developments on
Asia-Pacific security. Central Asia continues
to struggle with the phenomena of religious extremism, poverty and corruption,
political instability and authoritarian governance, great power suspicion and
rivalry. Since Central Asia is an
important seam, the presence and participation of senior representatives of
both PACOM and CENTCOM provided a unique opportunity for a comprehensive
analysis and more efficient application of DoD policy. The conference was conducted in
partnership with the Marshall
Center, strengthening the
APCSS interdependence with that regional center. The 3-day conference
involved participants with an equal distribution between security practitioners
and area experts. The conference format included panel discussions, breakout
sessions as well as a teleconference with CENTCOM Command in Afghanistan.
Underlying Conditions of Terrorism. Honolulu, Hawaii,
18-20 April 2006. The APCSS, in coordination with the U.S. Army
War College, conducted this conference for U.S. government officials. It
dealt specifically with the role and contributions of the U.S. Combatant
Commands within the interagency effort toward countering the ideological
support to terrorism.
Senior
Inter-Agency Advisory Panel
& Process (SIAPP) on National and Transnational Threats. Jakarta Indonesia,
15-19 May 2006. Partnered with
Indonesian Department of Defence (DepHan),
the APCSS-led team conducted a four and a half day seminar which began by
introducing NSC-type approaches used in the U.S.,
Thailand, India and Mongolia. A table top exercise examining how the GOI
now handles high-level interagency coordination in a crisis situation, as well
as how it might do so if it forms an NSC, was included. Recommended terms of reference and related
NSC establishment “next steps” were forwarded to the Indonesian Minister of Defence on the final seminar day by the GOI
participants.
Malaysia Outreach Counter-Terrorism Course. Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia,
22-26 May 2006. Twenty-seven
representatives from Cambodia,
Japan, Malaysia, Philippines,
Singapore, Thailand and the United States participated in this
course. This was a 5-day
multinational course partnered with the Southeast Asia Regional
Center for Counter
Terrorism aimed at better understanding extremist ideology and the related use
of the internet to promote an extremist agenda, recruit, and train extremist
practitioners to commit acts of violence and thereafter advertise the success
of such acts. The objectives of this
course were: assess current trends in
terrorism in SE Asia, particularly as they relate to information or
communication technology; understand how terrorist ideologies (including
tactical information, such as that related to suicide terrorism) are
transmitted via the Internet or other types of communication technology;
understand the linkage between information technology and critical
infrastructure protection; understand
the importance of networks in the context of terrorism and the information
revolution; and understand how the information revolution (and new
communication technologies) can facilitate interagency cooperation.
2006
Strategic Communications and the Regional Centers. 14-16 August 2006 in Honolulu, Hawaii. A follow-up
to our November 2005 conference, our objectives were to share the latest
developments on Strategic Communications in the Office of the Secretary of
Defense, Department of State and in the regions. We also focused on information sharing
between agencies and organizations.
Technology Cooperation &
Asia-Pacific Maritime Security. Honolulu, Hawaii,
22-24 August 2006. Forty-one
representatives from Australia,
Cambodia, Canada, China,
India, Indonesia, Japan,
Malaysia, Philippines, Republic
of Korea, Singapore,
Thailand and the United States
participated in this conference. This
conference evaluated and assessed existing intra-regional maritime security
issues; analyzed current maritime institutional and technological capabilities
in the region; identified issues to provide opportunities for U.S. engagement in addressing
existing and potential regional maritime threats; and generated cooperative
approaches and initiatives for enhancing intra-regional technological cooperation
and exchange to improve the maritime security environment.
Democratic Transition and Security Reform in Nepal Workshop - Kathmandu, Nepal,
August 28 – 1 September 2006. Forty senior
Nepali security force and government representatives participated in this
five-day workshop. This workshop, in
collaboration with the Centre for Nepal
and Asian Studies, facilitated dialogue among policy makers, political leaders,
security practitioners and civil society representatives of Nepal on priority steps in improving the very
challenging security and governance environment in Nepal. The workshop attendees produced an outline
for the security sector reform which was briefed to senior Nepali government
officials.
Security Cooperation
and Governance in SEA: Responding to
Terrorism, Insurgency and Separatist Violence in Indonesia,
Thailand, and the Philippines. Singapore, 26-28 September
2006. Seventy-two representatives from Indonesia, New
Zealand, Philippines,
Singapore, Thailand and the United States participated in this
three-day multilateral conference. This
conference, in collaboration with the Institute
of Defence
and Strategic Studies, addressed the effectiveness of responses to terrorism,
insurgency and separatist violence in Indonesia,
Thailand and the Philippines.
ASEAN
Regional Forum Inter-Sessional Meeting on Search and
Rescue Cooperation and Coordination in the Asia Pacific Region (ARF SAR ISM). Honolulu,
Hawaii, March 4-7, 1996. Co-hosts: Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
U.S. State Department Bureau of East Asian and
Pacific Affairs, and USPACOM. 80 participants from Australia, Cambodia,
Canada, China, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New
Guinea, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Thailand, the United States and
Vietnam. Also included were
representatives of the European Union, IMO, and ICAO. Topics included: International
SAR Conventions/Publications, Regional SAR Training Overview, Civilian and
Military SAR Coordination and Cooperation,
SAR Communications and the Potential for Regional Coordination and Cooperation,
and Benefits of Regional SAR Coordination
and Cooperation.
Asia-Pacific
Senior Seminar. Honolulu, Hawaii, April 8-14, 1996. Co-hosts:
The East-West Center and Pacific Forum CSIS. This was their 3rd annual seminar. 30 governmental and academic participants
from Australia, Cambodia, Canada, China, France, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos,
Malaysia, Mongolia, New Zealand, Philippines, Pakistan, Singapore, South Korea,
the United States, Vietnam, ASEAN, and the United Nations. Topics focused on the outlook of security and
economics dynamics,
sub-regional issues and perspectives, and region-wide issues
and processes.
U.S.-Japan
Security Relations Conference.
Honolulu, Hawaii, May 8,
1996.
Co-host:
Defense Research Center-Japan. 17 senior
level governmental and academic participants discussed topics such as the
security environment in the region, the defense policy of the United States and
Japan, US-Japan security cooperation, and confidence building measures in the
region.
1995
Peacekeeping Lessons Learned Conference. Honolulu,
Hawaii, June 28-30, 1995. Co-host:
USPACOM. 45 participants and 55
observers from Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, China, Fiji, India, Indonesia,
Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines,
Singapore, Thailand, Tonga and the United States. Plenary sessions focused on the many facets
of peacekeeping operations, outlined United States and United Nations
peacekeeping policy, and described how one can apply measures of
effectiveness. In addition, every
country delegation presented papers on the lessons they learned during their participation
in peacekeeping operations.
Asia‑Pacific Center for Security Studies
Conference on Asia‑Pacific Security for the 21st Century: Managing Change and Stability. Honolulu, Hawaii,
September 3-6,
1995. Co-host: none. 32 countries 110
participants. Participants from
Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Canada, China, Federated States of
Micronesia, Fiji, France, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kiribati, Laos, South Korea,
Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mongolia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua
New Guinea, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tonga, Tuvalu,
United Kingdom, Western Samoa and the United States. The conference included four plenary
sessions: Perspectives on the Way Ahead
in the Asia‑Pacific Region by Secretary of Defense William J. Perry, The Challenges of Political and Social
Change to Regional Stability and Cooperation, The Challenges of Economic Change to Regional Stability and Cooperation, and The Challenges of
Military/Technological Change to Regional Stability and Cooperation. Also included were four workshop sessions on Political/Social Change, Economic Change,
Military/Technological Change, and Managing Change.
Humanitarian Support Operations Conference. Honolulu,
Hawaii,
September 17-23,
1995. Co-hosts: The Center Of Excellence
in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance, American Red Cross, US Army
Medical Command, and USPACOM. 150
participants were representatives from Pacific Basin and Rim Countries, US
Embassy Country Teams, Non-governmental Organizations
(e.g.,
SUMA, World Vision, Save the Children), Red Cross and Red Crescent National
Societies, United Nations, and Department of Defense.
Countries represented were Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Fiji,
India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Pakistan,
Philippines, Switzerland, Thailand, Tonga and the United States. Main agenda included: The
Geneva Conventions and International Humanitarian Law in Complex Emergencies,
Security Skill Development for the Humanitarian Professional, Regional
Organizations in Peace Operations, and
Coordinating United Nations Humanitarian Assistance in the Field.