The Policy Research Council
- Exploration of diverse agenda items required for national cohesion through cooperation with those in both public and private sectors; building a social consensus in the process of policy-related debates; laying the basis for national cohesion
Overview
- The PNPC’s think tank working with outside research institutions, monitoring national cohesion-related issues and discussing relevant agenda items and policy directions
- Holding quarterly meetings, publication of periodicals, and holding academic events
- - Publication of periodicals (reports)
- · 1st issue: Diagnosis of national cohesion and problems (Jan. 2014)
- · 2nd issue: Social trust - tasks to be done by the government, businesses, and civil society (Jun. 2014)
- · 3rd issue: Advent of risk society and citizen’s safety (Sept. 2014)
- · 4th issue: Social agreements and compromises (Dec. 2014)
- · 5th issue: Restoration of middle class and national cohesion (July 2015)
- · 6th issue: Social risk at each life cycle and how to get rid of it (Oct. 2015)
- · 7th issue: Restoration of social mobility and national cohesion (Dec. 2015)
Com-
position
- Operation of the Council by establishing a system of cooperation with the participation of 12 private/public research institutions (See the following)
- - (Those run by the government): KRIHS, KIHASA, KIPA, KLI, KINU, KRILA
- - (Those run by the private sector): KERI, EAI
- - (Those run by universities): ISDPR at Seoul National University, Institute of Public Affairs at Yonsei University, Research Institute for Coexistence and Cooperation, Korea National Open University, Dankook Center for Dispute Resolution
Major
functions
- Exploration of national cohesion-related agenda items; discussion about desirable policy directions
- - Exploration of national cohesion-related agenda items through the monitoring of social issues and collection of opinions
- - Exploration of desirable policy directions from a perspective held by each institution
- - Disclosure of discussion results through periodicals; expansion of discussions through academic events
- Cooperation
- - Exploration of national cohesion-related strategies; sharing information and theories developed domestically and abroad; holding academic events such as debate sessions; publicizing; cooperation for national cohesion and resolution of social conflicts
Expected
effects
- Concretizing the direction of national cohesion in the process of exploring agenda items and relevant discussion
- Getting rid of policy-related blind spots by checking factors associated with social conflicts
- Production of synergistic effects in exploration and promotion of national cohesion-related policies through a combination of diverse views held by research institutions
