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SUMMARY:IDSA-BIMSTEC Workshop on Cyber Security Cooperation
DESCRIPTION:Download Conference Report  [PDF]\n \n \n\n\n\nProgramme\n\n\n\n\nDay 1: 5 December 2018\n\n\n\n9:30 – 10:00\nRegistration\n\n\n10:00-10:45\nSession I: Inaugural Session \n\nWelcome Address by Maj.  Gen (Retd.). Alok Deb\, Deputy  Director General\, IDSA\nIntroductory Address by Mr. Pankaj  Hazarika\, Director (CS)\, BIMSTEC Secretariat\, Dhaka\nInaugural Address by Shri. Rajinder Khanna\, Dy. National Security Advisor\,  Government of India\n\n\n\n\n10:45-11:00\nTea/Coffee Break (High-Tea)\n\n\n11:00-11:15\nSpecial Address by Dr. Gulshan  Rai\, National Cyber Security Coordinator (NCSC)\, Government of India\n\n\n1115-13:00\nSession II: Cyber Security Preparedness and National Approaches of the BIMSTEC countries to secure cyberspace \nChair: Dr. Ajeet Bajpai\, Director General\, National Critical Information Infrastructure  Protection Centre (NCIIPC);Co-Chair: Dr.  Ajey Lele\, IDSA \n\nBangladesh perspective  by M.D. Sakhawat Hossain Superintendent of Police (SP)\, Special Branch\,  Bangladesh Police\, Bangladesh\nBhutan: Cybersecurity  Initiatives\, Challenges and Issues by Ms. Sonam Choki\, Sr. ICT Officer\, Bhutan  CIRT\nIndia perspective by Dr.  Sanjay Bahl\, DG\, CERT-In \nMyanmar perspective by  Mr. Soe Naing Oo\, Police Brigadier General\, Criminal Investigation Department\,  Myanmar\nCyber Security in Nepal by Rabin Basnyat\, Chief of  Digital Forensics\, CID\, Nepal Police\nSri Lanka perspective by Rohana  Chaminda Akmeemana Palliyaguru\, Director-Operations\, Sri Lanka CERT|CC\, Colombo\nThailand perspective by Ms. Rawinnipa Karin\, Plan and Policy Analyst\, Directorate  of Countering\, Transnational Threats\, Office of the National Security Council  (NSC)\, Thailand\n\n\n\n\n13:00-14:00\nLunch Break\n\n\n14:00-15:45\nSession III– Regional Challenges in Cyber  Security and Cyber Crime in BIMSTEC countries \n Chair: Dr. Madan Oberoi\, ICT Advisor\, MHA/ Shri Janardhan Singh\, JD\, MHA \nSpeakers: \n\nMs. Sangay Choden\, ICT  Officer\, Infrastructure Division\, Department of IT and Telecom\, Ministry of  Information and Communications\, Bhutan \nMs. Papakorn Vorasathit\,  Plan and Policy Analyst\, Professional Level\, Office of the National Security  Council (NSC)\, Thailand \nBrig. Ashish Chibbar\,  IDSA\nRep. from Fireye \nRep. from Kaspersky\nRep. from Microsoft\nRep. from Tech Mahindra/  McAfee\n\n\n\n\n15:45-16:00\nTea Break\n\n\n16:00-17:15\nSession IV:  Panel Discussion on International Cyber Politics and Governance – Opportunities and  Challenges.   \n Chair: Upender Singh  Rawat\, JS (Cyber Diplomacy) Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)Co-Chair: Soe Naing Oo\, Police Brigadier  General\, Criminal Investigation Department\, Myanmar \nSpeakers: \n\nShri Hemant H. Kotalwar\,  JS\, NSCS\nShri Rahul Gosain\,  Director\, MeitY\nMr. Pankaj Hazarika\, Director  (CS)\, BIMSTEC Secretariat\, Dhaka\nMs. Rehana Parvin\, Assistant  Secretary (BIMSTEC)\, Ministry of Foreign Affairs\, Bangladesh\nMr. Munish Sharma\, IDSA\n\n\n\n\n17:15 -onwards \nVisit to DSCI Annual Summit at Hotel Leela\, Gurugram\, followed by Dinner  (By invitation only)\n\n\n\nDay 2: December 6\, 2018\n\n\n\n    10:00-11:30\nSession V: Developing  Cyber Security Capacity – Technical and Institutional Challenges  \nChair: Joint Secretary\, Ministry of Electronics  and Information Technology;Co-Chair: Mr.  Werachai Prayoonpruk\, Deputy Director\, Office of Cybersecurity\, ETDA\,  Thailand \n\nRep of MeitY\nRep MHA \nMr. Amit Sharma\,  Additional Director (R&D) Defence Research & Development Organisation  (DRDO)\nR. Ananthalakshmi Ammal\, Centre for Development  of Advanced Computing\, Trivandrum – New Challenges of Digital Forensics\nDr. Cherian Samuel\, Research Fellow\, IDSA\n\n\n\n\n11:30-11:45\nTea Break\n\n\n    11:45-13:00\nSession VI : Panel Discussion on BIMSTEC  Cooperation in the Area of Cyber Security  \nChair: Ms. Prabha Rao\, Ex-Special Secretary\, Cabinet Secretariat;Co-Chair: Dr. Sanjay Bahl\, DG\, CERT-In \nSpeakers: \n\nShri Narendra Nath\, DDG  Security\, DoT\nMr. Pankaj Phukan\, US  (Cyber Diplomacy)\, MEA\nDr. S K Pal\, Director  (IT & CS)\, DRDO \nMr. Sachin Burman\, Deputy  Director  General\, NCIIPC\nShri Anoop Yadav\, Dy. Legal  Advisor\, IS-II\, MHA \n\n\n\n\n13:00-14:00\nLunch\n\n\n    14:00-15:00\nSession VII: Concluding  Session  \nChair: Maj. Gen. Alok  Deb\,  DDG\, IDSA;Co-Chair: Mr. Pankaj Hazarika\, Director  (CS)\, BIMSTEC Secretariat\, Dhaka \n\nConcluding Remarks by  Shri Piyush Srivastava\, JS  (BIMSTEC)\, MEA \nConcluding Address by Dr. Gulshan Rai\, NCSC – Roadmap for BIMSTEC  Cooperation\n\n\n\n\n    19:30-21:00\nDinner at Le Meridien hosted  by Dy. NSA\, Government of India (By invitation only)
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SUMMARY:Conference on India-Japan Cooperation in Indo-Pacific and Beyond 2025: Corridors\, Connectivity and Contours
DESCRIPTION:Venue:  Auditorium\, IDSA \nProgramme [PDF]\n \n \nConcept Note\nFocus of the Conference\nThis  conference aims to examine the scope and potential of India-Japan cooperation  in key infrastructural connectivity and corridors projects\, which will have a lasting  strategic impact in the Indo-Pacific region and beyond by the year 2025. It will  examine the bilateral\, trilateral and multilateral undertakings of India-Japan  cooperation.  \nThe Context\nA striking feature of India-Japan relations is their co-envisioned  “free\, open and prosperous” Indo-Pacific region. Under their “Special Strategic  and Global Partnership”\, the two countries outlined “Vision 2025” on 12 December  2015. The major characteristic of this vision was to enhance a “deep\,  broad-based and action-oriented” partnership within a global framework while  investing in India-Japan future-oriented partnership with a demand for peace  and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit  to Japan in November 2016 and October  2018 and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to India in September 2017  further endorsed this pledge. \nWhat does  this “free\, open and prosperous” Indo-Pacific mean in context of India-Japan special  and global relations? A number of bilateral understandings and agreements\, from  economic to political to strategic\, have been the crucial pillars of India-Japan  relations that have started complementing Vision 2025 in Indo-Pacific\,  especially their pledge to develop quality infrastructure across the region. Regionally  and globally\, an enhanced understanding is currently unfolding between the two  countries to strengthen a rule-based international order with focus on  people-to-people contacts\, connectivity and plan to develop corridors while  reinforcing their bilateral security and defence cooperation. Pledging a  “partnership for prosperity”\, the two countries intend to establish a stronger  regional and global partnership through collaborative connectivity and corridor  projects.  \nTheir  common pledge to have a “partnership for prosperity” is however not free from  challenges. China’s emergence as a stronger power\, its unilateral  infrastructural initiatives in the Indo-Pacific region\, especially Xi Jinping’s  Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)\, come as a challenge to India’s and Japan’s strategic  interests in the region. Donald Trump’s bilateral-oriented approach towards Asia  under an “America First” approach and\, notably\, the United States’ withdrawal  from multilateral trade negotiation contacts have posed a number of challenges  for the countries in the region. Though struggling for a conclusion currently\,  the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) negotiation process promises  to change the economic fortunes of the Indo-Pacific region with emphasis on  free trade and serious economic collaboration. Smaller actors are increasingly  aiming to play a critical role through trilateral and multilateral chain of  contacts and configurations. \nTaking  these developments into account\, a number of strategic contours\, bilaterally  and regionally\, impact and influence the India-Japan future relationship. This  conference aims to review and evaluate India-Japan relationship in the current  and future contexts with focus on their future-oriented partnership\, mainly beyond  the Vision 2025. This conference will not only review\, scrutinize and analyse  their ongoing cooperative partnerships in key connectivity and corridors  projects but foresee the scope of this cooperation beyond 2025.  \nStructure of the  Conference\nThe conference  will have four sessions. Each session will have three presenters.  \nSession I: Connectivity  and Corridors: The Foreign Policy Context   \nThis session  will focus on how infrastructural connectivity and corridors constitute the principal  foreign policy contours of the major actors in Indo-Pacific. It will focus on  Indian\, Japanese\, Chinese and American foreign policy focus on infrastructural  connectivity and corridors initiatives in Indo-Pacific. It will analyse the  following questions: How do the Indian\, Japanese\, Chinese and the American  foreign policy trajectories point to their cooperative and contending  perspectives on infrastructural connectivity and corridors projects in  Indo-Pacific/Asia-Pacific? How can India-Japan cooperation in the areas of  connectivity and corridors be strengthened by 2025 and beyond?   \nSession II: Financing Projects  and Policies: The Economic Context  \nThis  session will analyse key energy connectivity and corridors projects in  Indo-Pacific and their financing patterns. In particular\, it will examine how  key institutions such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB)\, the Asian  Infrastructural Development Bank (AIIB) and other global institutions will finance  key corridors and connectivity projects\, including energy projects\, in Indo-Pacific.  It will analyse the following questions: How is the ADB enhancing key infrastructure projects  in the Indo-Pacific? How is the AIIB shaping the infrastructure connectivity  and corridors projects? How is India-Japan Indo-Pacific infrastructural vision  complemented or contended by these financing institutions? How will RCEP impact  the future of Indo-Pacific infrastructure?  \nSession III: Maritime  Ports and Military Projections: The Security Context\nThis  session will critically analyse the security components of India-Japan  cooperation in Indo-Pacific with emphasis on key maritime ports and military  projections. It will examine main maritime ports and points in the Bay of Bengal  as well as in broader Indian Ocean Region (IOR). The session will address the  following questions: What are the principal maritime ports and projects in the  Bay of Bengal that India and Japan could possibly cooperate with in the future?  What are the prospects of the Asia-Africa Growth Corridor (AAGC) in IOR? How will  the military projections of major powers shape India-Japan partnership in times  to come?  \nSession IV: Interests\,  Investments and Infrastructure: The Bilateral Context \nThis  session will analyse the scope of India-Japan economic cooperation\, in terms of  their strategic interests and infrastructural investments. It will assess how  India’s and Japan’s economic growth trajectory will shape their Indo-Pacific  vision beyond 2025 in contrast to China’s emergence as an economic power house  in the region. It will address the following questions: What would be the economic growth trajectory of India\,  Japan and China in 2025 and beyond? What would be the prospects of India-Japan\,  India-China and China-Japan economic contacts over the next decade or so? How  will it impact the prospects of Indo-Pacific? \nScope of the Conference\nThis  conference is being co-organized by the Institute for Defence Studies and  Analyses (IDSA) and the Japan Foundation in New Delhi. Its scope is purely  bilateral\, involving Indian and Japanese subject experts and policy analysts. A  number of experts from Japan will participate and present their paper. On the Indian  side\, experts from IDSA and mainstream think-tanks and universities will  participate.  \nDate and Venue\nThe date  of the conference is 7 December 2018\, Friday. The venue is IDSA Auditorium. \nPaper Presentation and  Outcome\nEach  speaker will present a paper of 5000-8000 words. After the conference\, each  presenter will be asked to revise and resubmit their paper for publication for  an edited volume.
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SUMMARY:11th South Asia Conference - Non-traditional  Security Challenges in South Asia: Agenda for Cooperation
DESCRIPTION:Concept Note\n\n\n\nConcept Note\n\n\nNon-traditional  Security Challenges in South Asia: Agenda for Cooperation\n\nIt is  a truism to say that cooperation on hard security issues among countries in South  Asia is a non-starter\, given the lack of mutual trust and confidence in the  region. The official efforts at enabling economic cooperation for last 33  years\, through a regional organisation– South Asian Association for Regional  Cooperation (SAARC)– have remained hostage to inter-state rivalries inhibiting  generation of the much-needed consensus to move forward. This has often led  strategic analysts to pessimistic conclusions about the prospects of regional  cooperation even in other areas of mutual interest. However\, in recent years\,  there has been an uptick in the efforts at the civil society level to identify  non-traditional security (NTS) areas where the countries have minimal level of  difference and a shared interest in cooperation. Generating popular consensus at  track II level for effective regional cooperation in these areas requires  regular exchanges of views and concerns about the costs of non-cooperation.  There is a need for evolution of actionable plans and programmes to turn this  idea into reality. \n  The concept  of security has witnessed significant modification in recent decades following  the end of the Cold War. Its scope has been widened to cover issues like food\,  energy\, information (cyber)\, demography\, ecology (climate change)\, natural disasters\,  human and drug-trafficking\, migration\, economy\, proliferation of weapons of  mass destruction\, transnational terrorism and even pandemics. Most of these  issues are not regarded as hard security issues and hence they are less emotive  in nature. Nevertheless\, the security import of these issues should not be  underplayed. The world has lost more men and resources to crises around  no-traditional security issues than to wars during the last century. By some  estimates\, South Asian states have lost nearly half a million lives and  resources worth $59 billion during last two and half decades to natural  disasters and ecological hazards alone. Given the trans-boundary nature of  these challenges\, they cannot be effectively handled by any state alone. This  is where the argument in favour of regional cooperation to deal with these  issues kicks in. \n  The South  Asian region flaunts diverse geographical features with the Himalayas in the  north to the Indian Ocean in the south and substantial part of the plain land  watered by rivers flowing from the northern mountain ranges. This geo-physical feature  has made India vulnerable to frequent floods\, cyclones\, earthquakes\, and droughts.  Their frequency and severity have increased under the impact of climate changes  due to anthropogenic pressure on natural resources. All this have had severe impact  on the availability of food and water. The geographical expanse from the Hindu  Kush region of Afghanistan till the island countries of Sri Lanka and Maldives  in the Indian Ocean are impacted by the trans-border dimension of the problems  that accompany these issues. Frequent natural calamities have resulted in  displacement of population internally and also across state frontiers. The  massive earthquake in Nepal\, frequent flooding in the region\, rise of sea level  that threatens low-lying countries of the region are some of the examples here.  As per official claims\, about 30 million Bangladeshis would risk becoming climate  migrants by 2050. Man-made security challenges like  communicable diseases\, religious extremism\, refugees\, internal migration\,  energy scarcity and cyber-attacks are equally challenging.  \n  The  effect of these threats is amplified by the under-preparedness of the states to  evolve cooperative mechanisms to deal with the situation. It is further  aggravated by the fact that out of eight South Asian countries\, four are LDCs.  The region is home to 40 percent of the  world’s poor and some 51 percent of the population is categorized as food and  energy deficient.  A recent World  Bank report indicates that almost half of  South Asia’s population lives in vulnerable areas. Due to falling agricultural  yields\, lower labour productivity or related health impacts\, the people of this  region would suffer from declining living standards and this will constrain the  capacity of the state to cope with such stress.  \n  The  region is also confronted with the challenge of securing continued supply of energy  to sustain sound economic growth. All most all countries of the region are dependent  on external sources to meet their energy demands. \n  In the  last 15 years\, South  Asia has experienced the most number of terrorist related incidents that have threatened the stability of several states. The US  Department of State Country Reports on Terrorism 2015 & 2016 say that South  Asian countries are on frontline of terror attacks\, after Iraq. Four out of the  top ten countries experiencing the most number of terrorist attacks are in  Southern Asia— Iraq\, Afghanistan\, Pakistan\, India\, Nigeria\, Egypt\, Philippines\,  Bangladesh\, Libya\, and Syria. Around 3967 attacks took place in these four  countries in 2015.  \n  Similarly  issues like cyber security\, water scarcity\, pandemics and Humanitarian  Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) have been acknowledged as pan-South Asian  problems that demand concerted and cooperative multilateral action\, which is not  as intense as it should be given the lack of awareness about the issues on the  one hand and the absence of the habit of inter-state cooperation in these areas  on the other. \n  There  is a belief gaining ground in the region that it is easier for states to work  together to address these challenges in a cooperative manner\, and this is  likely to generate the necessary impulse for collective action in future in  areas hitherto considered sensitive and critical in the region.  \nObjectives\n  Against  this backdrop the proposed conference would deliberate on the challenges posed  by NTS; the means and ways in which they can be handled; explore whether the states  in the region are prepared to meet these challenges collectively; the experience  of the existing regional cooperation mechanisms in dealing with some of these  issues so far; and the way forward. \n  This  conference is an annual calendar event organised every year by the South Asia Centre\,  where the main objective is to identify and deliberate on various challenges  the region is confronted with and to identify mechanisms to meet such challenges.  As outlines above\, in this year’s conference\, we have identified NTS challenges  and prospects of regional cooperation as an important area of enquiry.  \nThe conference would discuss the following research questions \n\n\nWhat  are the main NTS challenges in the region? \nWhat  kind of mechanisms are available– at bilateral\, sub-regional and regional  levels– to mitigate these challenges? \nIs  it easier to generate regional consensus around the need for collective action to  address common NTS challenges\, and has there been any effort to bring the  states together on these issues?\nWhat  are the potential inhibitors of cooperative action? \nDoes  the region require collective security efforts to mitigate these common  challenges? \nIs  there any prescription for future (the way ahead)?\n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme Schedule\n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme\n\n\n\n\nDecember 18\, 2018 (DAY ONE)\n\n\n\n0930h–1000h: \nRegistration\n\n\n1000h–1030h: \nInaugural Session\n\n\n \n‘Welcome Address’\, – Maj Gen Alok Deb\, SM\, VSM\, (Retd)\, Deputy Director General\, IDSA\n\n\n \n‘Contextualising the Conference’\, – Dr Ashok K Behuria\, Coordinator\, South Asia Center\, IDSA \n\n\n1030h–1045h: Tea Break \n\n\n1045h–1300h: \nSession I: Contemporary Debate on NTS in South Asia\n\n\n \nChair:  Amb. Swashpawan Singh\, Member\, Executive Council\, IDSA (20 minutes per speaker) \n\n\n \n\n\nPaper 1 –  Rebalancing State vs Human Security in the 21st Century– Dr Uttam Kumar Sinha\, Senior Fellow\, NMML\, India.\nPaper 2 – Technology\, State and Human security and Non-Traditional Security Challenges– Dr K R Srinivas\, Consultant\, RIS\, India.\nPaper 3 – The Spread of Terrorism in South and South East Asia Region – Dr. Naing Swe Oo\, Founder and Executive Director\, ThayNinGa Institute for Strategic Studies\, Myanmar.\nPaper 4 – Regional Approach to NTS: Sri Lankan Perspective– Asanga Abeyagoonasekera\, Director General\, INSSSL\, Sri Lanka.\n\n\n\n\n1300h–1400h: Lunch\n\n\n1400h–1545h: \nSession II: Climate Change Resilience and Disaster Risk Reduction  \n\n\n \nChair: 	Mr. Kamal Kishore\, Member\, National Disaster Management Authority\, India.  (20 minutes per speaker) \n\n\n \n\n\nPaper 1- Impact of Climate Change on Permafrost with  Special Reference to Ladakh- Dr Joseph Thsetan Gergan\, Retired Glaciologist\,  Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology\, India.\nPaper2- Sharing Bengal Bay Blue Economy Benefits- Christopher M Tilakasiri Dharmakirti\, Advisor on climate change  initiatives\, Government of Sri Lanka.\nPaper  3- Climate Change and Mobile Vulnerabilities: Interstate Migrant Waste Pickers  from West Bengal in Bengaluru- Dr Kavya  Michael\, Associate Fellow\, TERI\, India.\nPaper  4-– Environment and Changing Livelihood Pattern in the Himalayas– Ms. Purna Maya Gurung\, Research Officer- Climate & Water\, Bhutan.\n\n\n\n\n1545h–1600h: Tea Break\n\n\n1600h–1745h:  \nSession III: Water Governance in South Asia: Mechanisms\, Rules and Conventions\n\n\n \nChair: 	Dr D V Thareja\, Former Indus Commissioner (20 minutes per speaker)\n\n\n \n\n\nPaper 1- Rethinking Water Challenges in the context of 1.5 Degrees by 2030 – Dr Ajaya Dixit\, Executive Director\, ISET\, Nepal.\nPaper 2- Trans-Boundary Navigation: Stimulus and Engine of Sustainable and Inclusive Growth in South Asia- Sanjay Gupta\, Strategy and Policy Advisor\, India.\nPaper 3-“Stop Water Campaign”: Decoding the Compensation Enigma under the Gandak Agreement\, 1964 – Sidiqui Shawahiq\, Advocate\, Supreme Court of India/ Founding Partner\, Indian Environment Law Organization\, India. \nPaper 4- Hydro Politics: Challenges for Trans-boundary Cooperation in the Indus Basin – Dr Rashid Aftab\, Director Riphah Institute of Public Policy\, Pakistan. (Skype)\n\n\n\n\nDecember 19\, 2018 (DAY TWO)\n\n\n0930h–1100h:\n  Session IV:  Religious Extremism/ Terrorism and Cross Border Cooperation \n\n\n \nChair: 	Rana Banerji\, Special Secretary (Retd)\, Cabinet Secretariat\, GOI\, India    (20 minutes per speaker)\n\n\n \n\n\nPaper 1- Combating Terrorism and Insurgency in South Asia:  Revisiting Militarized Policing Theory- ASM Ali Ashraf\, Associate Professor\, Department of IR\, University of Dhaka\, Bangladesh.\nPaper 2- Small Arms Proliferation and Political Violence in South Asia: The Imperatives of Regional Cooperation- Dr Smruti Pattanaik\, Research Fellow\, IDSA\, India.\nPaper 3- Identity\, Statelessness and Violence- Khin Zaw Win\, Director\, Tampadipa Institute\, Myanmar.\nPaper 4- Religious Radicalism: The case of Taliban – Dr Omar Sadr\, Senior Researcher\, Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies\, Afghanistan.\nPaper 5— Cyberspace and South Asia: Key Security Challenges- Munish Sharma\, Consultant\, IDSA\, India. \n\n\n\n\n1115h–1300h: \nSession V: Energy Security and Cross border Energy Cooperation \n\n\n \nChair: 	Dr Rajat Kathuria\, Director and Chief Executive\, ICRIER\, India.(20 minutes per speaker)\n\n\n \n\n\nPaper 1- Prospects of Renewable Energy Cooperation in South Asia – Dr Shaheen Afroze\, Research Director\, BIISS\, Bangladesh.\nPaper 2- Energy Integration in South Asia: Challenges and Prospects –Shebonti Ray Dadwal\, Senior fellow\, IDSA\, India.\nPaper 3- Connectivity and Economic Cooperation in South Asia – Pratim Ranjan Bose\, Chief of Bureau\, The Hindu Business Line\, Kolkata\, India.   \nPaper 4- Energy Security Issues and Transforming to Cleaner Energy in Nepal- Prof. Amrit Man Nakarmi\, Center for Energy Studies/IOE-Tribhuvan University\, Nepal. \n\n\n\n\n1300h–1400h: Lunch\n\n\n1400h–1615h:\n Session VI: Regional Cooperation Mechanisms and NTS Issues\n\n\n \nChair: Prof S D Muni\, Professor Emeritus\, JNU\, India (20 minutes per speaker)\n\n\n \n\n\nPaper 1- Limitations of Intelligence Cooperation in Security Concerns of the Region- Rana Banerji\, Special Secretary (Retd)\, Cabinet Secretariat\, GOI\, India. \nPaper 2- Radicalism and Terrorism: Explained through the Fragility Lens- Dr Moeed Yusuf (Pakistan)\, Associate Vice President\, Asia Center at the United States Institute of Peace\, US.\nPaper 3- Disaster Management Experience of Nepal- Maj Gen Purna B Silwal (Retd)\, Retired Major General\, Nepalese Army\, Nepal.\nPaper 4- Beyond SAARC: Reenergizing Sub-Regional Cooperation in South Asia-Dr Bharti Chhibber\, Assistant Professor\, University of Delhi\, India.\n\n\n\n\n1615h–1800h:\n Session VII: Way Forward: Actionable Plans and Implementation\n\n\n \nChair:  Maj Gen Alok Deb\, SM\, VSM\, (Retd)\, Deputy Director General\, IDSA\, New Delhi\n-Panel Discussion (senior participants of the region)\n\n\n \nVote of Thanks by Conference Coordinator\, Dr Nihar Nayak \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrevious Conferences\n\nPrevious Conferences\n\n\n\n\nContact us\nNihar R Nayak\nCo-ordinator\, 11th South Asia Conference\nResearch Fellow\, South Asia Centre\nInstitute for Defence Studies and Analyses\nNew Delhi-110010\n(Office) +91 11-26717983 Extn 7202\nMobile- 9971418969.\nEmail: southasiaconference.idsa[at]gmail.comzakhter.idsa[AT]gov.in
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