Congratulations to Mohammad Farhan Alkaff, Kurt Benjamin Martelino Abalos, and Samuel Lindsey Blodgett for being elected to participate in GHIPP 2024 #5th Crisis Simulation Workshop, which also brought brilliant performance throughout the event.

Words from Mohammad Farhan Alkaff:

"I was interested in joining the GHIPP 2024 Crisis Simulation workshop because I wanted to exercise my critical thinking, especially within the context of crisis handling in the form of simulating the thought process with other participants from various backgrounds. The workshop is the chance to simulate our thinking process, as well as share thoughts, ideas, and concerns, with different ideas, in the context of crisis handling governance. The challenges of being able to voice out our thoughts and opinions, negotiate, discuss, and respond, in a time constraint situation, is what thrills me the most. For me, it brings up the ability to filter out efficient analytical creative thinking within the context of global crisis governance."

Words from Kurt Benjamin Martelino Abalos:

"Like many TSE students, our professor gave me and my classmates the rare opportunity to participate in and learn from such an event. Throughout the GRIPS simulation workshop, we were tested on handling close-to-real-life situations that affected the region. The event organizers crafted a situation that touched on various themes, such as global health, regional security, and politics. As a result, my classmates and I acted according to the interests and policies of major regional stakeholders. Although we did not solve the crisis within the workshop time frame, we certainly understood the complexities and dangers that times of crisis can pose, especially when it comes to a productive and integrated region like the Indo-Pacific. At the end of the workshop, I understood that the most significant takeaway from the simulation was to always hope for the best but expect and prepare for the worst.