East Asia and a Rising India: Prospects for the Region
In 2007, JCIE coordinated a joint study to explore India’s growing relations with East Asia and their significance for the emerging East Asia community. Policy experts discussed the implications of India’s inclusion in the region, the question of how to best manage a regional order characterized by the involvement of multiple large powers, and India’s interests and concerns regarding community building in East Asia.
Engaging the United States in an Emerging East Asia Community
In cooperation with the United States Asia Pacific Council, JCIE launched a joint study and dialogue in 2004 that explores Asian actors’ incentives, goals, and visions of regional community; potential US reactions; and ways of guiding community-building efforts so that they meet the interests of all parties by enhancing stability and prosperity in the region.
Asia Pacific Agenda Project (APAP)
The Asia Pacific Agenda Project (APAP) is a multinational consortium of policy research organizations and academic institutions designed to strengthen networks and enhance joint research and dialogue among institutions and intellectual leaders in the Asia Pacific. It also aims to train young scholars as the future leaders of international policy-related research.
Global ThinkNet Fellows | New Approaches to Preventive Diplomacy
Five Global ThinkNet Fellows undertook a study project on preventive diplomacy under the direction of Dr. Hideo Sato, senior advisor to the rector of United Nations University. In October 1999, these researchers began examining such topics as UN peacekeeping activities; the peace-building process in Croatia; the international commitment to solve refugee problems; reconceptualizing the concept of state-nation relationship in Asia; and a new approach to the democratization process in Belarus.
Japan’s Response to the Spread of HIV/AIDS
In 2004, JCIE completed a survey report commissioned by the Open Society Institute (OSI) on Japan’s response to the spread of HIV/AIDS. This resulted in one of the first reports in English on how actors in the public and private sectors in Japan have been addressing the spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The report was distributed at the international conference, Human Security Challenges of AIDS and Communicable Disease in Asia, held in Tokyo on March 22, 2004.
Human Security Approaches to HIV/AIDS in Asia and Africa
Starting in late 2005, a JCIE research team developed case studies of projects in Asia and Africa that take a human security approach to HIV/AIDS in order to better understand how these approaches work on the ground. Research was carried out in Tanzania, Thailand, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, and a workshop was held in Pretoria, South Africa on March 10, 2006, with aid workers and UN officials from around Africa.
Human Security in the United Nations
In 2003, JCIE was commissioned by Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to conduct an assessment of several projects funded by the Trust Fund for Human Security (TFHS), with a focus on how the human security concept has been incorporated and applied in TFHS-funded projects from the conception phase through the design and implementation processes.
Global ThinkNet Fellows | The Future of Governance & the Role of Politicians
Under the guidance of Professor Gerald Curtis of Columbia University, six emerging political leaders conducted case studies in their respective areas of expertise in order to identify appropriate roles of politicians and new models for the policy-formation process.
Global ThinkNet Fellows | Transformation of Japanese Communities and the Emerging Local Agenda
Under the direction of Shun’ichi Furukawa, a team of young scholars and think tank researchers was formed to study the new demands facing local government in the face of rapid changes that have accompanied globalization and decentralization.
Asian Community Trust
Founded in 1979, the Asian Community Trust (ACT) was Japan’s first charitable trust based on general fundraising. It is committed to providing support for grassroots, self-help efforts of nongovernmental organizations involved in sustainable social and economic development across Asia.