IN THE DAYS THAT FOLLOWED the Indian Ocean tsunami in December 2004, UNESCO’s long-standing association with tsunami-related actions became more widely known, particularly through its Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), which had established and operated the tsunami warning system in the Pacific Ocean since 1965. The unspoken question, however, was why, if a tsunami warning system existed in the Pacific Ocean, a similar system did not exist in the Indian Ocean?
