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PISA
Summer Leadership on
Global Climate Change
(PSIGCC)
Washington, DC
July
6 - 28, 2009 |
In
January, twelve individuals from Vietnam were selected to participate
in PISA's upcoming Summer Leadership
Institute on Global Climate Change (PSIGCC) to be
held in Washington, DC on July 6 - 28, 2009. Each individual
is a former participant of the Leadership
Institute on Creative Responses to Global Climate Change (LIGCC),
which was held in Hanoi, Vietnam, in October 2008. Partipants
from the LIGCC were encouraged to apply for this special intensive
summer program, underwent a competitive application and selection
process, and have been selected to participate in the PSIGCC
based on their leadership potential within their respective
ministries, businesses, associations or research institutes. |
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As
PISA nears its 25th anniversary, I am struck by the depth of relationships
cultivated over the years with partner organizations in China, Vietnam,
and throughout the Asian region. In China, students who once benefited
from fellowships to study international relations in the United States,
are now heading up departments, schools and research institutes devoted
to international affairs. Former participants in PISA’s training
courses in Vietnam are now inviting PISA to work with them on new
projects, and PISA’s reputation has attracted new and continued
support and participation of major foundations, sponsors, and senior
international affairs experts from around the world.
PISA
continues to collaborate with new and long-standing partners to tackle
immediate and emerging concerns with recent focus on Vietnam. In
October, PISA joined the worldwide movement confronting the challenges
and impacts of global climate change, and thanks to generous support
from the Ford Foundation office in Vietnam, the Chino Cienega Foundation,
and private sector and non-profit partners ESRI Vietnam, Spot-Image,
Inc., Planet Action, and World Wildlife Fund Vietnam, PISA and the
Institute of World Economics and Politics (IWEP) hosted A
Leadership Institute on Creative Responses to Global Climate Change
(LIGCC) from October 22-31 in Hanoi.
Furthermore,
the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam’s Institute of Diplomacy
and Strategic Studies (IDSS) has invited PISA to partner and provide
an executive seminar on the United Nations Convention Law of the
Sea and its implications for South China Seas issues, and the Vietnam
Institute on Human Rights of the Ho Chi Minh Academy of Politics
and Public Administration has charged PISA with organizing a study
mission and research project on the implementation of the United
Nations Convention on the Rights of Disabled Persons.
PISA
thanks all those involved in recent and former initiatives and looks
forward to another 25 years of successful international affairs education,
training and research in Asia.
Linda
J. Yarr, Director |
