At the second meeting of the Sunnylands Initiative on Enhancing Democratic Partnership in the Indo-Pacific region (Sunnylands Initiative) in Odawara, Japan, JCIE worked with the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the Annenberg Foundation Trust to bring together prominent practitioners and scholars from across the Indo Pacific who are working to support democracy. Over the course of the retreat, participants discussed the state of democracy in the Indo Pacific and worked to develop concrete strategies for defending and strengthening democratic governance and human rights. As a complement to these discussions, select participants shared their thoughts on key issues concerning democracy in the region in a series of short video clips. Watch the series below.
Interview Series
KETTY W. CHEN
Vice President, Taiwan Foundation for Democracy
MAIKO ICHIHARA
Professor, Institute for Global Governance Research, Graduate School of Law, School of International and Public Policy, Hitotsubashi University
DHRUVA JAISHANKAR
Executive Director, Observer Research Foundation America
SHANTHI KALATHIL
Former Coordinator, Democracy and Human Rights, National Security Council, The White House
DEREK MITCHELL
President, National Democratic Institute
YUKIO TAKASU
Former Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations; Chair, JCIE Study Team on the Democracy for the Future
DANIEL TWINING
President, International Republican Institute
PHILIPS JUSARIO VERMONTE
Senior Fellow, Centre for Strategic and International Studies Indonesia; Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Indonesian International Islamic University (UIII)
DAMON WILSON
President & CEO, National Endowment for Democracy
