Features and Press Releases

August 20^th 2007

SSRC Launches New Inter-Asian Initiative

In today's interconnected world, the notion of the Far East seems like a relic of earlier, era, when countries were designated near, or far, or in the middle, in relation to the vantage point of the supreme power of Europe. But for Seteney Shami, a program director at the SSRC, east and west are not the only concepts that have lost their relevance. The concept of Asia itself is changing.

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Programs and Projects

CGP-SSRC Policy Forum

Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum (CPPF)

Mobilizing necessary knowledge to support UN capacity for conflict prevention, peacemaking and peacebuilding

Inter-Asia Program

Supporting research collaborations within and across the regions of Asia

Research and Training in Southern Vietnam

The Religious Lives of Migrant Minorities

Vietnam Population Health Programme: Strategic Learning and Assessment

Mobilizing knowledge to assess health and social interventions in Vietnam

Vietnam Program

Working to strengthen social science research capacity and links to policymaking in Vietnam

SSRC Experts

Nina Mccoy

Vietnam Representative
Expertise: HIV/AIDS, Public Health, Southeast Asia
Location: Vietnam

Mary B McDonnell

Executive Director
Expertise: Cross-cultural Studies, History, Southeast Asia

Van Tran

Associate Director
Expertise: Public Health, Southeast Asia

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