East-West Center
The East-West Center is an education and research organization established by the U.S. Congress in 1960 to strengthen relations and understanding among the peoples and nations of Asia, the Pacific and the United States. The Center contributes to a peaceful, prosperous and just Asia Pacific community by serving as a vigorous hub for cooperative research, education and dialogue on critical issues of common concern to the Asia Pacific region and the United States. Funding for the Center comes from the U.S. government, with additional support provided by private agencies, individuals, foundations, corporations and the governments of the region.
Over its 50 years of serving as a U.S.-based institution for public diplomacy in the Asia Pacific region with international governance, staffing, students and participants, the Center has built a worldwide network of more than 57,000 alumni and 600 partner organizations.
Over its 50 years of serving as a U.S.-based institution for public diplomacy in the Asia Pacific region with international governance, staffing, students and participants, the Center has built a worldwide network of more than 57,000 alumni and 600 partner organizations.
Asia Pacific Leadership Program
The Asia Pacific Leadership Program (APLP) is the center of excellence for leadership education in Asia Pacific and a signature program of the East-West Center. The program links advanced and interdisciplinary analysis of emergent regional issues with experiential leadership learning.
APLP graduates leave the East West Center with an expanded regional perspective. They are knowledgeable about the societies and issues of the Asia Pacific region and empowered to exercise leadership and promote cooperation in a variety of cultural, geographical and institutional environments.
Currently on its 13th cohort, the APLP has created a network of 461 dynamic leaders in 53 countries who are helping to build a peaceful, prosperous and just Asia Pacific community.
APLP graduates leave the East West Center with an expanded regional perspective. They are knowledgeable about the societies and issues of the Asia Pacific region and empowered to exercise leadership and promote cooperation in a variety of cultural, geographical and institutional environments.
Currently on its 13th cohort, the APLP has created a network of 461 dynamic leaders in 53 countries who are helping to build a peaceful, prosperous and just Asia Pacific community.
GIST 2014
The Guided Independent Study Travel (GIST) component of the APLP involves a team of selected ‘delegates’ spending fifteen weeks in South East Asia. As delegates of GIST, we will be conducting an intensive field work to carry out focused individual research, community projects, and ‘quests’, which involves problem solving and overland travel across the region.
The APLP had provided us the time, tools, contacts and knowledge needed to successfully navigate personal and regional change. GIST provides the space to reflect on these lessons in the context of South East Asia, framed to address the following three questions:
The APLP had provided us the time, tools, contacts and knowledge needed to successfully navigate personal and regional change. GIST provides the space to reflect on these lessons in the context of South East Asia, framed to address the following three questions:
- What’s going on? Emerging regional issues, charting (seeing and mapping trends), navigating uncertainty
- What types of leadership are required? Understanding the nature of leadership, leading diversity, developing resilience
- Where do we fit? Imagining preferred and alternative futures, building scenarios, analyzing social networks