Kalon Tripa Launches Tibet Policy Institute

DHARAMSHALA Inaugurating the Tibet Policy Institute at the Kashag Secretariat today, Kalon Tripa said the institute aims to carry out comprehensive research works on all aspect of Tibet-related issues, which he underlined ...

DHARAMSHALA Inaugurating the Tibet Policy Institute at the Kashag
Secretariat today, Kalon Tripa said the institute aims to carry out
comprehensive research works on all aspect of Tibet-related issues,
which he underlined would help the administration in framing
policies for the next fifty years and making the Tibet issue a
competent case on the international platform. The Kashag attaches
great importance to the Tibet Policy Institute, Kalon Tripa said,
adding that a clear and in-depth research materials on every aspect
of Tibet issue would play a pivotal role in framing policies and
plans for the next fifty years.He underscored the need for the
researchers at the policy institute to carry out research on both
past and present political, environmental, and economical situation
in Tibet, geopolitics of China, US and Asia vis-a-vis the issue of
Tibet.Kalon Tripa also expressed hope and emphasised the need to
have competent researchers and pledged to make every effort to
realise this goal. He called on the researchers including the staff
of the Tibet Policy Institute and other CTA officials, to make best
develop the know how and their interests in research works on issues
relating to Tibet.Aiming to make Gangchen Kyishong, the seat of the
Central Tibetan Administration in Dharamsala, as an Intellectual
Hub, Kalon Tripa said top researchers from India and abroad will be
invited to hold monthly and annual debates and symposiums to hone
the skills and knowledge of the Tibetan researchers.Kalon Tripa
praised the efforts made by former researchers of the Central
Tibetan Administration for their valuable research work and the
materials published.In his remarks, Mr Thubten Samphel, the newly
appointed director of the Tibet Policy Institute, said the policy
institute would strive to focus on research towards evolving
policies to tackle challenges in the coming fifty years in all
spheres of Tibet issue.We highly appreciate and thank the director
and staff members of the Research and Analysis Unit for their
valuable research works considering the resources available to them,
said Mr Samphel, who will take charge of the Tibet policy Institute
on 2 March. To fufil the Kashags aspirations, researchers at the
policy institute would make their best possible efforts to pool
their energy and interests in all aspects of the Tibetan issue, he
said.Mr Lobsang, Additional Secretary at the Tibet Policy Institute,
presented an overview of some of the key research works carried out
by the Central Tibetan Administration on the issue of Tibet till
today.