Seventy-eight senior military and civilian leaders from 42 countries and territories were the latest graduates of the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies’ “Comprehensive Crisis Management Course.  The course began on February 18th and culminated March 19th at a ceremony when Fellows were presented their graduation certificates by APCSS Director Lieutenant General (ret.) Ed Smith. Fellows attending the course came from American Samoa, Australia, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Chile, China, Columbia, Comoros, Egypt, Fiji, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kiribati, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Micronesia, Mongolia, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Saipan, South Africa, Sri [...]

         Note: Due to non-attribution format of PACRIM II, participant names are not used in this story        “Managing the Global Commons” was the theme for the 2010 Pacific Rim Security II (PACRIM II) conference, held at Stanford University Feb. 22-24 in Palo Alto, Calif.        PACRIM II brought together senior officials from the security sector, academia, and the private sector from Pacific Rim countries to continue the discussion launched by PACRIM I in 2009 on common challenges and opportunities facing nations in the region in the global commons. […]

    Twenty-two Fellows from 21 countries in the Asia-Pacific region completed the Transnational Security Cooperation Course (TSC10-1) Friday, Feb. 5, 2010.  They are military and civilian leaders representing: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Fiji, France, Guam, India, Indonesia, Japan, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, the United States, and Vietnam. […]

  Twenty-four employees from the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) visited the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) at Hickam AFB, Hawaii Dec. 16 as part of its Professional Development Series (PDS). The APCSS team was led by Director retired Army Lt. Gen. Ed Smith, Deputy Director retired Army Brig. Gen. James Hirai, other staff and faculty members, all of whom were impressed by the JPAC mission.  […]

  HONOLULU – Eighty-six senior military and civilian government leaders from 37 countries and territories graduated Dec. 10 from the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies “Executive Course:  Advanced Security Cooperation.” Attending the regional security course were representatives from: American Samoa, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Canada, Chad, Chile, China, Comoros, Cook Islands, Fiji, Guam, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kiribati, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Micronesia, Mongolia, Nauru, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Tonga, United States and Uruguay.  […]

The Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies today concluded its inaugural Security Sector Develop workshop. The 4 ½ day workshop brought together participants from Indonesia, Nepal, Bangladesh, Timor Leste and Maldives.  Country teams of 4-6 members spent the week developing a framework to address their own Security Sector Development needs, outlining action steps for addressing them. Today’s final briefs to one another demonstrated the importance and seriousness each of the cohort teams placed on the issues they selected. […]

  HONOLULU – The Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies graduated its latest “Comprehensive Crisis Management” course. Course participants included 75 senior military and civilian leaders from 31 countries and territories as well as representatives from the United Nations. […]

  Twenty-one Fellows from 21 countries in the Asia-Pacific region will complete the Transnational Security Cooperation Course (TSC09-2) Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. They are military and civilian leaders representing: Australia, Cambodia, China, Fiji, France, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tonga, the United States, and Vietnam. […]

  HONOLULU – Ninety-one Fellows graduated May 12 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 three-week course, from 46 locations, primarily throughout the Asia-Pacific region, as well as other far reaches of the globe. […]