Full Download
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Table of Contents director’s message Greetings from APCSS! We have just completed anoth- er fulfilling year, working carefully to help key leaders throughout the Asia-Pacific region enhance their knowl- edge, skills and networks. Our graduates, and their boss- CURRENTS es, tell us we are succeeding in what we are attempting. Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies Winter 2008, Volume 17 In this edition of Currents we offer a brief review of recent events, we introduce some new APCSS initia- tives, and we allow you to catch up on what your fellow Alumni are accomplishing. Perhaps, the “thread” throughout this edition is the emphasis on leader empowerment. For over 12 years APCSS has been helping accomplished leaders get better at what they do. It has proven effective as an enabler. Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Ed Smith, U.S. Army And, by helping to enable leaders, APCSS has also Director, helped to empower them. Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies Center News Alumni Connections Every Currents reviews some of what we are doing and tions to offer wider, cross-regional perspectives. Alumni Returns ........................................... 8 assesses what we think we are accomplishing. What we The Director’s Message...................................... Some of these opportunities are outlined in this Promotions ............................................. 9- Center News/Trends Analysis Program(TAP)/ are confident is working at APCSS is our shared-learn- magazine. The aim point for APCSS, as always, Retirements ........................................... - ARF Defence Universities Meeting ..................4 ing model. By all measures we apply in everything we is to anticipate what leaders need to know and Transitions ............................................. -9 Hails and Farewells ............................................5 do, participants in our programs are helping each other be able to do now and in the future. Alumni Associations .................................... 9 Visitors .............................................................6-7 to expand capacities--leader and institutional--capacities now in being, as well as ones all see as needed ahead. We are continuing to develop a series of part- Publications nered workshop opportunities in region, all with College News Our courses in Hawaii and our outreach events in the high-payoff potential. Events in 2008 will oc- region link regional and global security environments. cur in several countries, as well as in Hawaii, and those Foundation Members Meet EC07- Fellows ...8-9 Ethnic Diasporas ..............................................40 They foster broader understanding. They invite mature in 2009 will sustain our commitment to addressing the Faculty News: Hails & Farewells ......................0 Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force: judgment and action where needed. In all we do, we at- Senior Executive Course: Lessons Learned .........................................40 most complex Asia-Pacific security challenges in a com- Transnational Security Cooperation .............. Southeast Asia and Japan’s Maritime Security tempt to improve content focus and applied format. We prehensive, whole-of-government (and beyond) fashion, Executive Course: Cooperation .................................................4 also aim at a wider introduction of available decision- within nations and among them. Our parallel emphasis Advanced Security Cooperation ..............-5 Other Faculty Papers ........................................4 critical information, wherever such is available, from on roles and responsibilities of international organiza- Comprehensive Security Responses latest journal entries to lucrative internet websites. In tions will continue. to Terrorism .............................................6-7 course-work, we are identifying best-practice security Comprehensive Crisis Management ................7 Other APCSS Alum Discusses analysis and decision-aid frameworks used by reputable, Our efforts are always rewarded. Our APCSS Alumni Asia-Pacific Orientation Course ..................8-9 Humanitarian Missions .................................4 authoritative organizations around the globe, those gov- validate our reason for being by: Contacts ...........................................................4 ernmental, non-governmental, commercial-enterprise, --Helping to attract the very best participants to our Outreach /Conferences and informational. We are also exploring more precise courses in Hawaii. and timely ways to keep leaders informed with essential --Helping to achieve intended outcomes at regional Brunei: Disaster Management Workshop ...0- Currents Magazine is an unofficial publication produced biannu- information about security-related trends in our region, events. And, Meet the Conference Team .............................. ally by the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies Public Affairs anticipating opportunities to exploit success, as well as --Becoming contributors to national and multi-national Office. This publication is for APCSS employees, alumni, Fellows Bangladesh Outreach Focuses on Governance and future Fellows and is available online at www.apcss.org. We avoid shocks that threaten regional and global systems. security-cooperation efforts, routinely. and Security Reforms ...............................- use the Associate Press Style Guide when abbreviating ranks, re- We are committed to helping empower leaders with Nepal: Security Sector Reform Workshop ........ gardless of individual service style. Contents are not necessarily state-of-the-art ways and means they can use to achieve It’s all about leaders helping each other. Enabling to Regional Counterparts Workshop ....................4 the official views of, or endorsed by, the U.S. Government or the U.S. Department of Defense. Questions or comments can be ad- ends for the common good. empower. Working Group on Trilateral Confidence & dressed by phone (808) 97-896 or email to [email protected]. Security Building Measures ...........................5 On the horizon, as well, we see a number of new oppor- Other Outreach Events ................................6-7 Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies Aloha from Honolulu! 2058 Maluhia Road * Honolulu, HI 96815 tunities to partner with comparable learning organiza- CURRENTSWINTER2008 www.apcss.org TAP-ping into collaborative systems Regional Centers The last issue of Currents The initial product is a collab- A series of written products, discussed the possibility of es- orative portal called the Asia in a format and schedule to be Africa Center for tablishing a team to focus on Pacific Collaborative Security developed over the next two Strategic Studies trend analysis by using exper- Consortium (APCSC) portal months, will be the third method www.africacenter.org tise from APCSS as well as the (now operational at http://apcsc. of information-sharing. These ______ Pacific Disaster Center (PDC). apan-info.net/). Our goal is to products may be written by the Asia-Pacific Center provide a high-performance, trends analysis staff, other inter- The reality of that idea is the for Security Studies Trend Analysis Program (TAP), community-enhancing network ested faculty, or collaborators. www.apcss.org launched in August. that includes APCSS alumni and ______ faculty, first-responders, deci- These initiatives will build a TAP will serve as a catalyst for sion-makers, and civilian and community of interest and ac- Center for Hemispheric a community of experts interest- military disaster response orga- tion, and in doing this we hope Defense Studies ed in improved understanding of nizations. to increase understanding of APCSS hosts RC Registrar & Alumni conference www.ndu.edu/chds disaster management (DM) and the social, economic, cultural ______ its relationship to governance The second product of this col- and other intangible factors APCSS hosted the Regional Centers Registrar and Alumni conference here Oct. 30 to Nov. George C. Marshall and human security. TAP will laboration, created in partner- which affect societies’ disaster 1. Attending the conference were representatives from each of the RCs as well as OSD, European Center ship with the PDC, is a Geospa- resilience. The increased under- contribute to efforts designed to DSCA and the CoComs. Discussion involved improving coordination and teaming. for Security Studies strengthen disaster resiliency, tial Information System (GIS)- standing will enable more use- www.marshallcenter.org enhance human security, and based analytical tool to display ful and focused action to build ______ improve regional security. Our comprehensive security factors, capacity and reduce the risk of Staff Hails and Farewells... plan is a three-pronged approach risk factors, and vulnerability regional shocks affecting all of Life at APCSS continues Even as these good people Petty Officer 3rd Class Near East South Asia consisting of virtual and ‘real’ assessments on a scalable map us. to ride out the ebb and flow left us, new faces signed on Steven Heyward. Center information-sharing and data projection. of change as new staff and to continue the challenges for Strategic Studies www.ndu.edu/nesa visualization techniques. faculty members arrive and of an ever–evolving APCSS Finally, the look of the front ______ good friends and colleagues mission. The College ben- offices also changed with APCSS attends ARF Heads of Defence Universities Meeting move on. efited from the arrival of the assignment of Lt.Col. Global Center for administrative