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An Asia expert and former U.S. career diplomat, Ambassador Lauren Kahea Moriarty was formally welcomed today as the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies as the new academic Dean.  Her official welcome was part of the Center’s 15th Anniversary celebration and groundbreaking ceremony for its new wing.  Click here to read her remarks  […]

    HONOLULU — A new addition to the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies will soon be a reality as APCSS broke ground for an additional learning-center wing in a ceremony held here Thursday.     Senator Daniel Inouye, a founding father of the Center, along with Senator Daniel Akaka, APCSS Director Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Ed Smith participated in the ceremony. The Reverend William Hi‘iakaikapoliopele Kaina blessed the project and the “Aina” where it is being built.   […]

  Remarks by Ambassador (Retired) Lauren Kahea Moriarty Dean of Academics College of Security Studies Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies Honolulu, Hawai’i – September 2, 2010  Aloha! General Smith, thank you for that gracious introduction—and thank you for hiring me!  Many of my finest mentors, teachers and role models are here on this day of celebration for me.   Senator Inouye, Senator Akaka, thank you for being here today.  Thank you for inspiring me over the years. […]

Eight-two Fellows graduated August 5 from the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies’ Comprehensive Security Responses to Terrorism (CSRT) Course in Honolulu. The military and civilian participants who attended the four-week course came from 37 locations, primarily throughout the Asia-Pacific region, as well as other far reaches of the globe. […]

(HONOLULU) — Participants of the Student Global Leadership Institute at Punahou School visited the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies July 30 to learn more about water security and cooperation. Participants at the Institute, from four U.S. and four Chinese high schools, had been engaged in an intensive two-week schedule designed to encourage them to work together, considering social responsibility and multicultural perspectives as they approached real-world problems, such as access to vital natural resources. Water, just such a resource, was the theme they focused on, with the students aiming not only to develop solutions to water-related problems in their respective locales, [...]

An Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) faculty outreach team led by Director Lt. Gen. (Ret) E. P. Smith, traveled to Beijing and Shanghai for Track II (academic institutions) regional security discussions June 21-27. Co-hosted by the China Association for International Friendly Contact (CAIFC), the discussions consisted of a two-day workshop in Beijing, and an informal roundtable discussion at Tsinghua University and another in Shanghai. […]

HONOLULU – Eighty-one senior military and civilian government leaders from 39 countries and territories graduated June 16 from the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies “Executive Course:  Advanced Security Cooperation.”. […]