January 11th, 2023 The Millennium Project has just launched its South Asia Foresight Network (SAFN) with representatives from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. SAFN’s purpose is to create a regional foresight capacity for joint futures research to improve cooperation and synergies among all nations of the region. SAFN was launched due to four challenges in the region: 1) Lack of…
From Left: Poonam Sharma, Jerome C. Glenn, Asanga Abeyagoonasekera and Jeffery S. Payne. “Chinese Strategic trap in Sri Lanka”, warns Senior Research Fellow. “There is a deliberate Strategic Trap in Sri Lanka by China,” says the author Asanga Abeyagoonasekera, a Senior Research Fellow at the Millennium Project in Washington, DC. The book discussion on ‘Teardrop…
By Asanga Abeyagoonasekera, Executive Director SAFN “A journey in search of the Malwatu Oya is a journey to the heart of an ancient civilization” in Sri Lanka, says Dr. SinhaRaja Tammita-Delgoda, who discovered the historical context and brought out the beauty of Malwatu Oya in his documentary. Unfortunately, in the present day, her beauty and its…
By Mimrah Ghafoor – Associate Fellow at SAFN June 5th, 2023 Pic: Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid of the Maldives with State Councilor and Foreign Minister of China, Wang Yi The year 2022 marked both the bicentennial of formal diplomatic relations between the Maldives and China, and the penultimate year leading to the Maldives’ presidential elections, scheduled for September…
