ASARPI: Advanced Study of African Renaissance Policies Ideas as the consolidation and beyond of Professor John Huston Stanfield's nearly 35 years of think tank based work in Africa before he moved to the continent full time in 2014.

ASARPI is a hybrid nonaligned Pan-African and growing Pan-Asian policy advocacy think tank globally headquartered in Mauritius with branches in Namibia and South Africa. We do much of our work through Study-Practice Groups which convene engagement processes involving multiple stakeholder representatives ranging from impacted grassroots communities to the highest private and public sector policy to decision- making circles to develop strategies and models for governments and civil societies to address public good and quality of life challenges.

ASARPI in 2023 alone developed a rapid topical appetizer round robin model for briefing foreign dignitaries such as ministers of foreign affairs visiting Mauritius about Indian Ocean Region affairs in the midst of global affairs already adopted by the South African Minister of Foreign Affairs in her briefing requirements in SA diplomatic missions around the world. As well, in this recent period of time, ASARPI established a human rights oriented training institute for all vocations and disciplines: ASARPIversity plus a Study-Practice monitored social responsibility tourism platform: ASRAT: ASARPI Social Responsibility African Tours operating in several Southern African (SADC) nations , the Study-Practice Group for Innovative African Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners such as A to Z Personal and Home Service Providers, and AAFIP- ASARPI African//Diasporas Fundraising Initiatives Program. We have in early 2024 launched our Peace Listening and Nothing Wasted in Africa: Recycling Entrepreneurship Study-Practice Groups.

We are aggressively going after funds to establish unprecedented study-practice groups addressing women entrepreneurs, anti-gender violence, peace negotiations, and waste recycling entrepreneurship in African contexts and cross-national multicultural restorative justice engagement processes in African Slavery Legacy and Other Multiracialized Societies.

In early January of this year, ASARPI became a member of the Global South Centre of Excellence @Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi, India, at the invitation of the Prime Minister of India through the Indian Ministry of Indian External Affairs and the India High Commission in Mauritius. ASARPI is the first Indian Ocean Region RIS member and one of several in Africa of this emerging network of significant Global South think tanks. We will be soon co-hosting an African- Arab Middle Eastern Studied Webinar Series on cross- regional collaborative solutions to pressing quality of life issues with a leading Middle Eastern research center.