Accounting for missing personnel is an essential component of postwar reconciliation and building a secure peace. With support from Congress, USIP launched the Vietnam War Legacies and Reconciliation Initiative in August 2021. The initiative supports reconciliation between the U.S. and Vietnamese governments and peoples, as well as among Vietnamese inside and outside the country, and aims to document and promote the ongoing cooperation to address legacies of war as the basis for a comprehensive partnership build on trust and shared interests. On December 2, USIP hosted a discussion that looks at U.S.-Vietnam cooperation in the search for, and identification of, wartime Vietnamese remains along with personal stories of Vietnamese families who lost relatives in the war.
SpeakersAmbassador George Moose, welcoming remarks Chair, Board of Directors, U.S. Institute of Peace
Kelly K. McKeague Director, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)
Sr. Col. Đoàn Quang Hòa Deputy Chief of Office, National Steering Committee 515
Hải Nguyễn Director, Global Vietnam Wars Studies Initiative, Harvard University
Tim Rieser Foreign Policy Aide to U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy
Thảo Griffiths Independent Consultant on War Legacies, Hanoi
Hoàng Thanh Nga Deputy Chief of Mission, Socialist Republic of Vietnam to the United States
Andrew Wells-Dang, moderator Senior Expert, Vietnam, U.S. Institute of Peace
For more information about this event, please visit: https://www.usip.org/events/learning-us-vietnam-cooperation-wartime-remains-recovery
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