Asian Leadership Forum Papers
2023: Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Journalist
If you don’t have facts, you can’t have truth. Without truth, you can’t have trust. Without these three, we have no shared reality. You can’t solve any problem, let alone have a functioning democracy.
2018: Ban Ki-moon, Eighth United Nations Secretary-General
Global citizenship is an important concept that can serve as a unique tool to help solve some of our most pressing challenges and assist us in reaching our global goals.
2016: Ma Ying-jeou, Former President of the Republic of China
My early life had a lot to do with the Catholic Church in Taiwan and, for that matter, American aid to Taiwan.
2015: Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Former President of the Republic of Indonesia
What we need is reason. We need compassion. Not provocation, but persuasion. We need to build bridges, not burn them.