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113ing the region or province that is the focus of the conflict, the UnitedStates, and Australia. For composition of study groups please see the participantslist.All five study-groups met jointly for the first time in Washington, D.C.from September 29 through October 3, 2002. Over a period of four days,participants engaged in intensive discussion of a wide range of issues pertainingto the five conflicts investigated in the project. In addition to identifyingkey issues for research and publication, the meeting facilitated thedevelopment of cross country perspectives and interaction among scholarswho had not previously worked together. Based on discussion at the meetingfive research monograph length studies (one per conflict) and twentypolicy papers (four per conflict) were commissioned.Study groups met separately for the second meeting. The Aceh and Papuastudy group meetings were held in Bali on June 16–17, the southernPhilippines study group met in Manila on June 23, and the Tibet andXinjiang study groups were held in Honolulu on August 20–22, 2003.The third meeting of all study groups was held in Washington, D.C. fromFebruary 28 to March 2, 2004. These meetings reviewed recent developmentsrelating to the conflicts, critically reviewed the first drafts of the policypapers prepared for the project, reviewed the book proposals by theprincipal researchers, and identified new topics for research.PublicationsThe project will result in five research monographs (book length studies)and about twenty policy papers.Research Monographs. To be authored by the principal researchers, thesemonographs present a book-length study of the key issues pertaining toeach of the five conflicts. Subject to satisfactory peer review, the monographswill appear in the East-West Center Washington series AsianSecurity, and the East-West Center series Contemporary Issues in the AsiaPacific, both published by the Stanford University Press.Policy Papers. The policy papers provide a detailed study of particularaspects of each conflict. Subject to satisfactory peer review, these 15,000- to25,000-word essays will be published in the East-West Center WashingtonPolicy Studies series, and be circulated widely to key personnel and institutionsin the policy and intellectual communities and the media in therespective Asian countries, United States, and other relevant countries.