Trilateral Conference

The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and UBC hosted the inaugural meeting of the Japan-Canada-US Trilateral Cooperation Conference Series at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies in Vancouver, Canada. The conference brought together 35 senior academics, policymakers, and business representatives to explore avenues for trilateral cooperation on Arctic navigation and energy security issues. A lunch time discussion examined developments of the multilateral institutional architecture in the region. Papers from the conference may be accessed here.

The conference series, taking place over the period of 2009-2012, will explore avenues for trilateral cooperation among Japan, Canada, and the United States. Institutions leading this project include: (1) Asia-Pacific Foundation and University of British Columbia (2) Reischauer Centre for East Asian Studies, SAIS, John Hopkins University; (3) the Japan Institute of International Affairs. This research and conference series is supported by a major grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership and financial assistance from the Embassy of Canada in Japan.