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Policy Research Workshop on "Regional Governance and Non-Traditional Security"

16 Nov 2005

 

Diplomats from China, Indonesia, Vietnam and the ASEAN Secretariat will present papers in a half-day policy research workshop on "Regional Governance and Non-Traditional Security" organised by the Centre of Asian Studies of the University of Hong Kong (HKU). The papers will cover the threats posed by piracy and poverty to regional security, international legal responses to these threats, challenges facing regional environmental governance, and China's non-traditional security concerns with South Asia.

This research workshop is part of "The Learning Field Project: Repositioning Hong Kong in the Asia Pacific Region", which brings diplomats and officials from regional foreign ministries and organisations to Hong Kong on a six-week fellowship to undertake research on contemporary policy issues.

As part of the Centre's longstanding efforts to engage policymakers and academics from around the region, a series of China-ASEAN and China-India conferences and seminars have been organised since 1998. In the last four years, the Centre has deepened these efforts to run a series of fellowships that brings regional foreign ministry officials together in Hong Kong to undertake research on an issue of policy concern.

The research workshop, which will look at a variety of non-traditional security threats around the Asia Pacific region, will be held in the Reading Room, Room G-4 (Ground Floor), Tang Chi Ngong Building, Centre of Asian Studies, the University of Hong Kong.

Interested members of the public are welcome to attend. 

For media enquiries, please contact Dr Nicholas Thomas of HKU's Centre of Asian Studies at ndthomas@hku.hk or on 2241 5921.