Many of the issues that Vietnam currently faces are shared by its fellow ASEAN partners, and are also ultimately global issues.
At the broadest level, the entire ASEAN region, like much of the rest of the world, is witnessing the ever-increasing mobility of people, goods, ideas, and now diseases at a time when the environment is being ever-more-intensely transformed by humans and climate change.
Meanwhile, in the midst of all of these dramatic transformations, people are seeking to find ways to ground themselves through their sense of identity and belonging.
In facing all of these transformations, Vietnam and ASEAN, like the rest of Asia, are striving to find the best ways to move into the future, a future that is increasingly global.
This is the issue that the theme of ICAS 12 – Crafting a Global Future – seeks to address.
We, therefore, feel that the themes of the two conferences complement each other very well, and we are very impressed by the contributions to EWV 12.
Please see below for an overview of the conference. More detailed information is available on the ICAS website.