As part of the Vietnam Wartime Accounting Initiative, USIP convenes a variety of virtual and in-person seminars.
On September 13 and 14, 2023, USIP hosted a three-part livestream of the Institute’s Dialogue on War Legacies and Peace, an annual event bringing government and non-governmental experts together to discuss the full range of war legacy issues and U.S. relations with Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
Over two days in October 2022, speakers including former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, former Vietnamese ambassadors Phạm Quang Vinh and Tôn Nữ Thị Ninh, and USAID Assistant Administrator Michael Schiffer reflect on lessons from U.S. engagement in Southeast Asia to conflicts elsewhere in the world.
The U.S. and Vietnam cooperate in the search for, and identification of, wartime Vietnamese remains, to include personal stories of Vietnamese families who lost relatives in the war.
The U.S. government launches an initiative following decades of Vietnamese cooperation to conduct the fullest possible accounting of missing personnel.
USIP’s 2019 conference on U.S.-Vietnam relations included prominent panelists from both countries discussing the importance of wartime accounting and how it has contributed to today’s bilateral partnership.