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Join USIP for a two-part livestream of USIP’s Dialogue on War Legacies and Peace. The event will bring together diplomats, advocates and authors to draw lessons from U.S. engagement in Southeast Asia that could apply to conflicts elsewhere in the world. The inspiring presentations will look at how Vietnamese, Laotians and Cambodians are healing from wartime suffering and building a future based on trust and shared interests.

Join USIP’s Vietnam War Legacies and Reconciliation Initiative for the first in a series of seminars designed to offer diverse perspectives on U.S.-Vietnam cooperation concerning war legacies.

Join USIP for a discussion that looks at U.S.-Vietnam cooperation in the search for, and identification of, wartime remains along with personal stories of Vietnamese families who lost relatives in the war.

The Lasting Effects of Agent Orange on Laos. On June 10, 2021, the Pulitzer Center hosted a conversation with journalist George Black and War Legacies Project founder Susan Hammond centered around Black’s Pulitzer Center-supported project, Agent Orange in Laos. Black’s reporting for The New York Times Magazine reveals the long-ignored legacy of Agent Orange in the country of Laos, which borders Vietnam. The United States sprayed the herbicide on both sides of the border during the Vietnam War but has yet to acknowledge the Lao victims or the consequences endured by generations of ethnic m...

U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy vows to look into the use of defoliants in Laos during the Vietnam War.