A Climate Resilience Toolkit for Security in Big Ocean Small State Islands

By |2024-10-21T10:26:13-10:00October 21st, 2024|Categories: Tekwani, Canyon, Journal, news, Mullins, Connel|Tags: , , , , , |

The paper discusses a foresight tabletop exercise that explored how rising temperatures, sea-level rise, and climate variability could impact BOSS islands such as the Maldives, Mauritius, and Seychelles. Through the analysis of three future climate scenarios, the exercise produced 34 policy recommendations aimed at enhancing adaptive capacity in areas such as governance, infrastructure, and international cooperation. The recommendations also highlight the need for resilient infrastructure, financial mechanisms, and ecosystem-based management.

A Security Nexus Perspective on Water Security

By |2025-01-24T16:17:52-10:00October 8th, 2024|Categories: Canyon, Journal, news|Tags: , |

“Water Security as an Essential Component of the Defense Industrial Base” is the latest perspective piece by DKI APCSS’s own DR. Deon Canyon. The article highlights the important role water security plays in maintaining military readiness and national defense. The defense industrial base, which relies on water for manufacturing, cooling, and sustaining installations, faces significant vulnerabilities due to water scarcity driven by climate change, population growth, and resource competition.

Building Climate Resilience in Small Island Developing States: Partnerships for Adaption in the Indian Ocean Region

By |2024-10-03T16:17:03-10:00October 3rd, 2024|Categories: Faculty, Workshop, Tekwani, Canyon, news, Mullins|Tags: , , |

The Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies recently hosted a workshop on “Building Climate Resilience in Small Island Developing States (SIDS): Partnerships for Adaption in the Indian Ocean Region” from Sept. 9 to 12 in Vihamanaafushi, North Male Atoll, Maldives.

Workshop Held to Review Maldives’ Strategy on Preventing Violent Extremism

By |2024-10-11T09:59:58-10:00October 3rd, 2024|Categories: Faculty, Workshop, Tekwani, Canyon, news, Mullins|Tags: , |

The Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI APCSS), in collaboration with the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) of the Maldives, hosted a workshop aimed at revising and updating the country’s strategy on preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE). The one-day event was designed to help the NCTC assess and improve the National Strategy on P/CVE (NS-PCVE) and its associated National Action Plan (NAP-PCVE).

Faculty members attend the fourth Mekong-U.S. Partnership Track 1.5 Policy Dialogue

By |2022-11-07T11:52:39-10:00November 7th, 2022|Categories: Outreach, Forman, Canyon, news, Dialogue|Tags: , |

In July of 2022, faculty members Dr. Lori Forman and Dr. Deon Canyon attended the fourth Mekong-U.S. Partnership Track 1.5 Policy Dialogue in Cambodia. As of late October 2022, the report for this event in now available online on [...]

DKI APCSS Releases Book on Oceania Security

By |2022-10-25T09:03:06-10:00September 30th, 2022|Categories: Canyon, publication, news, kevany, Long|Tags: , |

“Strategic Competition & Security Cooperation in the Blue Pacific” is the latest publication from the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. The book explores the dynamic geopolitical pressures in the region and addresses how these pressures impact security [...]

Improving Pandemic Response with Military Tools: Using Enhanced Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance

By |2022-10-07T15:58:00-10:00September 30th, 2022|Categories: Faculty Articles, Canyon, news, kevany|Tags: , , |

“Improving Pandemic Response With Military Tools: Using Enhanced Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance” is an article published in September 2022 that is part of a larger journal entitled Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness on the Cambridge University Press website. [...]

Policy recommendations for combatting overfishing and fisheries crime

By |2021-10-25T15:15:37-10:00October 22nd, 2021|Categories: Canyon, Journal, news, Allen, Long, Brown_c|Tags: , |

“Policy recommendations for combatting overfishing and fisheries crime,” is the title of a paper by Dr. Deon Canyon, Dr. Ethan Allen, Capt. Michael Long, and Lt. Cmdr. Christine Brown, for Security Nexus. This paper explores the perpetrators of overfishing, [...]

A Biodefense Fusion Center to Improve Disease Surveillance and Early Warnings to Enhance National Security

By |2021-09-20T13:08:42-10:00September 20th, 2021|Categories: Canyon, Journal, news, kevany|Tags: , , |

“A Biodefense Fusion Center to Improve Disease Surveillance and Early Warnings to Enhance National Security,” is the title of a paper by Michael Baker, Jacob Baker, Deon Canyon, and Sebastian Kevany, for Security Nexus. This paper discusses how the [...]

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