Events
East Asia Institute (EAI) organized and hosted the Asia Democracy Research Network (ADRN) Seventh Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand on June 30, 2018 in partnership with the King Prajadhipok’s Institute. During the workshop, ADRN members presented their work in progress on the populism research and exchanged feedback. This input, as well as the external feedback from the national-level consultation, will be incorporated into the final product on the analysis of populism spreading across Asia, and the effects of populism on democracy.
ADRN was launched in 2013 under the EAI’s leadership in order to analyze challenges against democracy in Asia and collaborate on pragmatic research projects that can contribute to democracy promotion and consolidation in the region. Democracy-related research think tanks from thirteen Asian countries, including Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and Thailand are participating in this network. EAI is currently serving as a secretariat of the ADRN.
Program
| 9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. | Welcome Remarks and Introduction Thawilwadee Bureekul, Director of Research and Development Office, King Prajadhipok's Institute (Thailand) |
| 9:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | Session One SODA Populism Report Group 1: Interim Presentation Panelists: HyeeJung Suh, Director of Research Planning Department, East Asia Institute (South Korea) Chin-en Wu, Associate Research Fellow, Asian Barometer& Academia Sinica (Taiwan) Myat Thu, Chairperson, Yangon School of Political Science (Myanmar) Kaustuv Chakrabarti, Senior Program Officer, Society for Participatory Research in Asia (India) Faheem Ahmed Khan, Faheem Ahmed Khan Mohammad Shazzad Hossain, Senior Program Manager, Manusher Jonno Foundation (Bangladesh) Moderator: Teresita Quintos Deles, Chairperson, INCITEGov (Philippines) |
| 10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m./span> | Session Two SODA Populism Report Group 2: Interim Presentation Panelists: Thawilwadee Bureekul, Director of Research and Development Office, King Prajadhipok’s Institute (Thailand) Aira Azhari, Coordinator of Democracy and Governance Unit, Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (Malaysia) Ian Jayson Hecita, Program Manager, Jesse M. Robredo Institute of Governance (Philippines) Teresita Quintos Deles, Chairperson, INCITEGov (Philippines) Khine Win, Director, Sandhi Governance Institute (Myanmar) Mohammad Tahseen, Executive Director, South Asia Partnership- Pakistan (Pakistan) Moderator: Thawilwadee Bureekul, Director of Research and Development Office, King Prajadhipok’s Institute (Thailand) |
| 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. | Session Four ADRN Housekeeping/Administrative Issues Moderator: Sook Jong Lee, Co-Representative of ADRN, East Asia Institute (South Korea) |
| 4:00 p.m. – 4:05 p.m. | Concluding Remark Woothisarn Tanchai, Secretary-General, King Prajadhipok’s Institute (Thailand) |
