In the 2023 Annual Forum, members from CAPRI’s International Advisory Council and board, key stakeholders in the region’s policy community, and contributors to CAPRI’s ongoing research will discuss pressing challenges to resilience and solutions as the Asia Pacific emerges from the latest crisis and prepares for future ones.
CAPRI’s second public forum featured Dr. Richard Bush, nonresident senior fellow at Brookings, focusing on themes in his recent book Difficult Choices: Taiwan’s Quest for Security and the Good Life and the challenges Taiwan faces in balancing competing priorities when formulating policy. Dr. Bush was joined by Alicia García Herreo, Enoch Wu, and Jiunn-rong Yeh to discuss how to build a resilient future of Taiwan.
In this public forum moderated by Syaru Shirley Lin of the Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation and the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, the Pottingers reflect on successes and failures in responding to COVID-19 and ongoing efforts to understand the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in order to build resilient healthcare systems and improve governance for future crises.
Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Prof. Chiaoning Su shared her observations on political communication, disinformation and misinformation, and media in Taiwan’s democracy.
This three-part speaker series features legislators from each of Taiwan’s major political parties sharing their experiences in advocating for policies and seeking consensus amidst diverse opinions.
At the second CAPRI Conversations session of 2023, New York Times correspondent Mr. Chris Buckley shared his experience working as a journalist in Asia, and he focuses on “local stories, global reach,” which shares the same value as CAPRI.
Nobumasa Ohmori shares how his team is improving community-based elderly care in Japan, and the guests gathered at this CAPRI Conversation reflect on how we can extend their methods to help with policy relating to social issues in other Asia-Pacific regions.
A roundtable discussion featuring Professor John D. Spengler, Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He pointed out the urgency in dealing with climate changes, which sparks conversations between the leaders and students of a variety of fields.
Joshua Smith, a Visiting Professor at National Chengchi University, talks about the importance of creativity and flexibility to organizations and governments. He emphasized that an innovative mindset is required to truly pursue human-centered design in public policy.
