Professor Mely Caballero-Anthony, Head of Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies, and Dr Alistair D. B. Cook presented their policy paper on Collaborative Governance at the virtual ASEAN Symposium on ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Blueprint 2025 on 10 December 2020.

Professor Mely Caballero-Anthony, Head of Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies, and Dr Alistair D. B. Cook presented their policy paper on Collaborative Governance at the virtual ASEAN Symposium on ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Blueprint 2025 on 10 December 2020. The Symposium discussed challenges to the implementation of the ASCC Blueprint 2025 and identified ways to address gaps and challenges. The inaugural symposium sought to strengthen the ASEAN network with the research community and widen outreach of the ASCC Blueprint 2025 implementation to the wider public. The symposium was hosted by the Chair of Senior Officials’ Committee for the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (SOCA), Nguyen Manh Cuong, Director-General of the International Cooperation Department, Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, Vietnam and attended by SOCA members and invited officials from across ASEAN.