The rising of Asian (Asean) science diplomacy

SCIENCE diplomacy, which is a rising area of wide-ranging exploration, seeks an understanding between science and policy to tackle national and intercontinental issues and concerns. It provides scientists who would engage with decision-makers from the executive and legislative branches to broaden their perspectives on how science and policy can interact to improve decision-making.

Experts use a wide variety of definitions for this concept; nevertheless, science diplomacy has become an umbrella term that includes several kinds of research-based, scientific, academic and engineering exchanges among nations and societies. Some of these include climate diplomacy, disaster diplomacy, health diplomacy and other domains of science diplomacy that have a common denominator - the utilization of scientific, technological, and academic collaborations among countries, regions and societies to address matters and disputes and to build sound global collaborations.