Based in DC, Partnerships for International Strategies in Asia (PISA), works directly with university faculty, government ministries, policy makers, research institutions, and non-governmental organizations in the broad area of int'l affairs.
Since 1984, PISA has worked with partner organizations in Asia to enhance capacity at the national and regional levels to address emerging concerns in the Asia Pacific region. Working with its network of global experts, PISA creates issue-specific programs in areas of mutual concern between the United States and Asia with particular emphasis on transnational issues such as: climate change, human security and international governance.
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Check out Myanmar in Motion! PISA's new video SHORT about our work in Myanmar.
Let us know what you think! http://www.gwu.edu/~pisa/projects/Myanmar_in_Motion.cfm
Phone: 202.994.4313Fax: 202.994.6096Email:[email protected]: Partnerships for International Strategies in Asia 1957 E Street, N.W., Suite 503 Washington, D.C. 20052
Congratulations to the first batch of outstanding PISA alumni from the Politics and Management Program - Outstanding group!
Selamat Datang!
I am looking forward to moderating PISA's Burma Symposium on Wednesday, October 24th!
Friends - "Hot off the Press" the latest PisaSpeak for July...
When the immortal Billy Holliday sang; Stormy Weather in 1953, she couldn’t have known that the record June temperatures of June 1933, the year Harold Arlen and Ted Koheler wrote that hit, would ...
Excellent piece on climate change in the US and how the government is NOT addressing it -
Bill McKibben: Drought, wildfires, storms, floods – climate change is happening, but the real disaster is our Big Energy-owned politicians' inaction
How can the lessons learned in Vietnam benefit those working on disaster reduction/management in Myanmar?
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has approved a World Bank (WB)-funded “disaster management” project at a total investment level of around US$180 million.
How can both sides build trust and work in partnership for Myanmar? We want to hear your ideas PISA alum!
Myanmar’s state-run newspaper expressed concerns that the ‘‘hard-won trust’’ between President Thein Sein of Thailand and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel laureate, could “vanish.”
Is the Philippines a model for ASEAN on Climate Change legislation?
http://ph.news.yahoo.com/un-lauds-philippines-climate-change-laws-worlds-best-055003862.html
Manila (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN) - The Philippines' laws on climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) are the "best in the world," UN special envoy Margareta Wahlstr?m said Thursday.
Calling all Gamers and Environmentalists..Check out what our friends at the Millennium Institute's developed and Win a Trip to Rio+20!
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We want to hear from PISA alumni - let us know what you are working on!
PISA is planning for Myanmar's first Leadership Institute on Climate Change
So great to see several PISA alumni including Dr. Phan Nguyen, my panel moderator, at the Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum!
We just finished panel presentations at the Asia Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum in Bangkok. Great to see many PISA alumni!
On February 7, PISA and the Elliott School of International Affairs will host a workshop, Foresight Scenario Exercise: Vietnam led by Mark R. Read, doctoral candidate at Pennsylvania State University. The workshop will gather Washington-based experts on Vietnam, the environment, or security studies to engage in an exercise to consider possible future scenarios for Vietnam under the impact of climate change.
Friends, you can join us on FEBRUARY 11 on the GWU campus for PISA/Millennium Institute's Systems Dynamics workshop: [email protected]
You can still register for the February 4 workshop: Introduction to System Dynamics Modeling for Business Planning, Public Policy, and International Affairs - tomorrow's session is sold out! Contact [email protected] to learn more.
Today on the George Washington University campus you can join us for: Investing in Women's Leadership for Climate Change Risk Management and Adaptation - a panel discussion from Noon-2:00PM
PISA attending: 2012 NCSE Conference: Environment and Security
The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) will present its 12th National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment: Environment and Security, January 18-20, 2012 in Washington, DC.
Join us on Monday, January 23rd for a video screening and panel discussion: "Investing in Women's Leadership for Climate Change Risk Management and Adaptation" - Noon-2:00PM, Elliott School of International Affairs, Lidner Commons, 6th fl.
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Make this holiday season Ever-GREEN by Supporting PISA!
After you pack away your holiday decorations and recycle your boxes, your tax-deductible gift to PISA will make an impact by:
Introducing energy efficient cook stoves to families in Vietnam;
Launching a Young Asian Climate Leaders Program;
Supporting groundbreaking research on climate security;
Funding videos to showcase community-based adaptation strategies;
Investing in PISA’s first Climate Change Leadership Forum for Myanmar.
Why not give a lasting gift to help PISA continue to find creative solutions to global concerns?
Excellent update from The Stimson Center written by Dr. Richard Cronin and Tim Hamlin on the fate of the Mekong: http://www.stimson.org/spotlight/laos-xayaburi-dam-decision-requires-a-mekong-standard--1/
The Economic Ministers from the four member countries of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) - Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam - are meeting this week in Siem Reap, Cambodia, for a second attempt at resolving concerns about a large dam that Laos wants to build across the mainstream of the Mekong...
Read PISA's article on Climate Adaptation in Asia: http://momentum.tides.org/adapting-the-world-in-80-days/
The record breaking flood in Thailand generated no shortage of eye-popping imagery and headline grabbing spectacles: free-roaming crocodiles, swimming snakes, local people making nocturnal raids on sand embankments in an attempt to save their homes. All of this against the backdrop of photos of Tha...
Adapting the world in 80 days? The view Durban to Bangkok (Pt 1)
planetforward.org
In 2011, few areas in the world are free of severe weather events. Floods, droughts, cyclones, the list is biblical. Lost in the reportage of extreme weather events and policy debates around clima
Is climate change a security issue? Let us know what YOU think.
The PISA team is on our way to Singapore to launch a new collaborative research initiative between SMU and PISA: A Climate of Insecurity: Governance in the Age of Uncertainty.
Friends, please view: http://planetforward.org/idea/adapting-our-lives-changing-our-legacies/
Vietnam is one of the 10 countries considered most vulnerable to climate change. How are the people there coping with the changes? What are they doing to adapt? PISA, Partnerships for International St
PISA will partner with IWEP to host an International Research Colloquium on Climate Change Leadership, Research and Community-based Initiatives in Hanoi on November 16, 2011.
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See PISA in action at the Mekon School, Chiang Mai, Thailand
The Global City in World Affairs Class of 2011 with Director Toulu at the DC Mayor's Office - the program is off to a running start...
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