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PISA is established
PISA was established in 1984 as the Committee on International Relations with the People's Republic of China (CIRSPRC). Its initial purpose was to reduce China's isolation from international scholarship in the field of international relations by offering a program of research and study abroad for faculty and policy analyst in Chinese universities, social science academies, and research institutions. Since its founding, CIRSPRC provided fellowships to 120 Chinese scholars and analysts for advance -
Efforts begin in Vietnam
n 1993, CIRSPRC was asked to offer an in-country training program for scholars and officials in Vietnam, under the auspices of the Institute for International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It therefore changed its name to the Program for International Studies in Asia (PISA), to reflect its broader activities in Asia. Since then, PISA has offered seventeen training programs in Vietnam, organized study tours and workshops in the United States for Vietnamese scholars and officials, -
Mongolia efforts
PISA expanded its activities to Mongolia with a series of seminars on topics in international relations at the School of Foreign Service at the Mongolia National University. PISA moved its executive offices to the Elliott School of International Affairs in June 1996. In 1997, PISA organized a Workshop for the Advancement of Asian Women in International Affairs in Hong Kong. The meeting led to the launch of the Women's Initiative in International Affairs in Asia (WIIAA). The year 1997 also saw th -
LAOS
n 2003, PISA began a series of workshops for government officials in Laos in cooperation with the Institute of Foreign Affairs (IFA) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs thanks to generous funding from the United States Embassy in Laos. PISA offered three training courses at IFA and subsequently, thanks to the support of the Henry R. Luce Foundation, partnered with the National University of Laos to offer a course for teaching staff and government officials on International Law and Covenants. -
Active Learning in China
PISA partnered with China Foreign Affairs University to offer Summer Workshops on Active Learning in International Affairs attended by junior faculty members at universities all across China. -
LIGCC
The Leadership Institute on Creative Responses to Global Climate Change (LIGCC) was the result of
a series of consultative dialogues that occurred over eighteen-months among Ms. Linda J. Yarr, Director of the
Program for International Studies in Asia (PISA), The George Washington University; Dr. Nguyen Xuan
Thang, Vice President of the Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences (VASS); and Dr. Bui Truong Giang,
Deputy Director, VASS (formerly Executive Deputy Director of the Center for International -
PIGCC
PSIGCCIn 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 appl -
RLICC
Partnerships for International Strategies in Asia (PISA) in cooperation with the
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP, Bangkok) convened a five-day
Regional Leadership Institute on Climate Change (RLICC) in Bangkok, Thailand,
February 13 – 18, 2011. The RLICC selected twenty-seven delegates from six
ASEAN member-countries in Southeast Asia
(Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia
and the Philippines) to critically assess national
and regional policies that seek to address climate
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MLICC
Watch the VideoIn February 2013 Partnerships for International Strategies in Asia (PISA) collaborated with Yangon based NGO, ALARM, to offer a week long pre-training program for 45 mid-level government officials from Burma's line ministries with portfolios most likely to be impacted by climate change. The Myanmar Leadership Institute on Climate Change (MLICC) was designed to build capacity at the national level on mainstreaming climate change into development policies. -
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