Strategic Foresight Training for the AFP Office for Strategic Studies and Strategy Management

The Critical Futures Program (CFP) of UP Center of Integrative and Development Studies (UPCIDS), led by its convener Dr. Emmanuel C. Lallana conducted a three-day seminar-workshop on Strategic Foresight for the AFP Office for Strategic Studies and Strategy Management (OSSSM). The event was held at Camp Aguinaldo from September 15 – 17 and featured a mix of lectures and workshops to enhance the capability of the OSSSM to conduct strategic research on vital national issues such as the development of a Self Reliant Defense Posture for the Philippines. 

Resource persons who participated in the seminar workshop include Dr. Gary Ador Dionisio, Dean, School of Diplomacy and Governance, DLS-College of St Benile, Prof. Joseph Herman Kraft and Dr. Jalton Taguibao of the Department of Political Science, UP Diliman, Colonel Raquel Vichez, Professor Victor Andres “Dindo” Manhit of Statbase Group, Captain Norman A. Mutia.. 

The seminar provided a foundation for long-term thinking in policy formation to strengthen resilience and actively shape the country’s defense posture through informed decision-making.