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Multimedia, Mobility & the Digital Southeast Asian Family

view the new special issue of CAPI's Migration, Mobility, and Displacement journal

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Conference on Public Law, Legal Orders & Governance

17-19 July 2019 in Timphu, Bhutan

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The 2019 CAPI interns are in the field

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Gender Dynamics, Feminist Activism & Social Transformation in China

A new CAPI-led China Policy Series volume from Routledge

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CAPI's 2017-18 Annual Report

photo: Varanasi skyline by 2017 CAPI intern Will Howling

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30 years of bridging the Pacific


The Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives is located at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. Our team conducts research on policy issues and builds relationships with universities and civil society organizations in the region. We hold international conferences and events and act as a resource facility for the university and the wider community on this important and diverse part of the world. Read more.

"In the Age of Acronyms, we seem destined to be known as 'CAPI'"
View our 30th anniversary book >
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Featured video

A video montage of some of our student interns and partners across the Asia-Pacific and Africa in celebration of our 30th anniversary (thanks to Eli Meadow Ramraj for the editing).
Dennis Gupa is a PhD student with UVic's Applied Theatre Department. Here he reports on his work in his native Philippines, which has been partially supported through a CAPI Student Research Fellowship.

CAPI photo gallery

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Description: For two weeks over June/July 2019, CAPI is hosting a delegation of 35 Thai judges at UVic for a "Judicial Training on Family Law and Youth Justice" program. The on-demand program was developed in partnership with Alison MacPhail, former Deputy Minister with BC Ministry of Children and Family Development and Executive Lead for Criminal Justice Reform in the Government of BC. The Thai delegation is led by Ms. Boonmee Thitarsiri, Vice-President of Thailand's Supreme Court.
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Description: Tiasa Basu Roy (pictured with CAPI Director Victor V. Ramraj) is an MPhil student of History at Calcutta University whose research focuses on the Canadian Baptist Mission in Orissa, India, 1870-1970. She is visiting CAPI for 8 weeks through the support of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute (photo: June 21, 2019)
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Description: CAPI was a co-sponsor of a one-day workshop on "Sustainable Livelihoods and Climate Change Regulation: Asian Approaches" at Hanoi Law University June 4, 2019, featuring presentations from CAPI Associate Director Helen Lansdowne and CAPI/University of Victoria Faculty of Law QES-Advanced Scholars Supriya Routh (UVic Law Asst. Prof) and Ratana Ly (UVic Law PhD candidate). The workshop is part of CAPI's "Regulating Globalization in South and Southeast Asia" project.
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Description: The CAPI/UVic Law delegation in Toronto for a QES-Advanced Scholars (QES-AS) workshop, including CAPI Director Victor V. Ramraj with QES-AS incoming scholars Nima Dorji (Bhutan), Ratana Ly (Cambodia) and Songkrant Pongboonjun (Thailand). 2012 CAPI intern Cate Lawrence (far left) was also at the event, representing Universities Canada (May 2019). See our "Regulating Globalization in South and Southeast Asia" project for more information.
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Description: CAPI was among those hosted by The Honourable Janet Austin, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia and former Governor General David Johnston at BC Government House on June 18, 2019, which brought together provincial participants of The Canadian Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarships program (QES). The QES program currently funds the majority of our student internship placements and our community of advanced scholars who are working on the theme of "Regulating Globalization in Asia." CAPI was represented by interns Will Howling (2017), Mikaela Chia and Jacob Derksen (both 2018) and incoming QES-Advanced Scholars Nima Dorji (from Bhutan) and Songkrant Pongboonjun (from Thailand). University of Victoria Chancellor Shelagh Rogers represented UVic at the event.
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Description: CAPI Director Victor V. Ramraj with students and colleague Aj. Natta at Chiang Mai University in Thailand, where he has been teaching a 3-week intensive law course (Jan 29, 2019).
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Description: CAPI hosted Drs Vu Thi Lan Anh, Nguyen Van Quang, Nguyen Thi Van Anh, and Tran Kim Lieu from Hanoi Law University for a couple of days at UVic to discuss future collaborations, including student and scholarly exchanges. UVic is the first institution in Canada to have a formal relationship with Hanoi Law U, after signing a memorandum of understanding last March. (January 9, 2019)
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Description: 2018 CAPI intern and UVic Anthropology student Jacob Derksen bids farewell at Jakarta International Airport after spending six months with the Center for Indonesian Policy Studies - "terima kasih indonesia" (January 2019)
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Description: Tony Huiquan Zhang, assistant professor of sociology at the St. Thomas More College (University of Saskatchewan) with CAPI China Chair Guoguang Wu following Zhang's talk "The Rise of Princelings in China: Career Advantages and Collective Elite Reproduction" at CAPI, December 10th, 2018.
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Description: "Students say goodbye to Teacher Nick, our CAPI intern who taught our Advanced Course for 6 months. We will miss you Teacher Nick!" - 2018 CAPI intern Nick Harrison (UVic Political Science student) with students at the Karenni Social Development Centre on the Thai/Myanmar Border, Nov 2018.