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The School provides a platform for faculty, visiting scholars and students to examine critical public policy issues facing Asian and other countries.
Research on Post-Tsunami Reconstruction Efforts in the Aceh-Nias Region
Faculty members of the School are working on a research project to examine how government, civil society, and other actors – at the local, regional, national, and international level– are responding to the unique and combined challenges of building peace and recovering from the 2004 tsunami in Aceh, Indonesia. Immediate deliverables from the project include a set of teaching case studies on public policy issues related to post-tsunami and post-conflict environments.
Connected to this project, School faculty members are collaborating in a multi-disciplinary, multi-faculty research proposal to the Ministry of Education’s Academic Research Fund (ACRF) Tier 2. This proposed research project which includes researchers from NUS’ Asia Research Institute and Law Faculty, will look at the reconstruction of Aceh’s society– including both its formal and informal institutions, rules, and culture – at all levels, starting from the individual and ascending to the level of the Aceh region itself. We expect the findings to contribute to overall understanding about how to rebuild societies, and their systems of governance in post-disaster and post-conflict environments in Asia.
Working Papers
Faculty members have produced several working papers, some of which have been presented at conferences and/ or published. Topics covered by the working papers include, Determinants of Economic Growth in the Information Age (Vu Minh Khuong), Negotiation and Conflict Management: A Public Policy Perspective (Boyd W Fuller and Scott A Fritzen), and India’s Membership: APEC’s Relevance (Mukul G Asher and Rahul Sen).
http://www.lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/Working_Papers.aspx
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