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India's Security In A Changing World Order
About
The geo-political events over the past few years have influenced our thinking on how they may affect the world order. The outbreak of the pandemic occupied the global centre stage for nearly two years. Thereafter new crises have been developing in rapid succession. For India, the last year was dominated by the re-emergence of the Taliban in Afghanistan and China’s aggressive moves at the line of actual control (LAC). This year has been marked by crises such as the Russo-Ukraine war, tension in the Taiwan Straits and, nearer home, China’s continued intransigent attitude as also the politico-economic turbulence in Sri Lanka, to name a few. These crises in addition to internal disruptions have had some effect on our national security.
Those and similar developments warrant a close look at their impact on India’s security. Pune International Centre (PIC) ideated its Seventh Pune Dialogue on National Security (PDNS) conference to the theme, “India’s Security in a Changing World Order”.
Agenda
08:30 – 09:00 hrs
Assembly and Registration
09:00 – 09:45 hrs
Inaugural Session
Opening Remarks by Lt. Gen. Vinayak Patankar, Convener, PDNS 2022
Welcome Address : Dr. Raghunath A. Mashelkar, President, Pune International Centre
Keynote Address : Mr. Vikram Misri
Deputy National Security Advisor, Government of India
09:50 – 11:35 hrs
Session 1
Impact of Internal Dimension on India’s Security
Chairperson:
Mr. Pradyot Haldar, President, Policy Perspectives Foundation, New Delhi
Panellists:
- Mr. Gurbachan Jagat, Former Governor of the State of Manipur
- Dr. Ajai Sahni, Founding Member & Executive Director, Institute for Conflict Management
- Mr. Gopal Pillai, Former Home Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India
11:40 – 12:00 hrs
Tea/Coffee Break
12:05 – 13:50 hrs
Session 2
China-Pakistan Combined Threat to India’s Security
Chairperson:
Amb. Gautam Bambawale, Former Indian Ambassador to China, Bhutan & High Commissioner to Pakistan
Panellists:
- Mr. Lt. Gen. Shokin Chauhan PVSM, AVSM, YSM, SM, VSM, Visiting Fellow, Centre for Land Warfare Studies
- Prof. Srikanth Kondapalli, Dean, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Amb. TCA Raghavan Former High Commissioner of India to Pakistan
13:55 – 14:35 hrs
Lunch Break
14:40 – 16:15 hrs
Session 3
Panel Discussion on ‘India’s Security in a Changing World Order’
Chairperson:
Mr. Nitin Gokhale, Strategic Affairs Analyst
Panellists:
- Dr. Tara Kartha, Distinguished Fellow, Institute of Peace and Conflict Research
- Mr. Jayant Umranikar, Former Director-General of Police, Maharashtra
- Lt. Gen. SL Narasimhan, PVSM, AVSM, Member, National Security Advisory Board
16:20 – 17:20 hrs
Closing Session
Valedictory Address
Lt. Gen. Shamsher Singh Mehta, PVSM, AVSM and Bar, VSM
Former Western Army Commander
Closing Remark by Chairperson
Chairperson:
Dr. Vijay Kelkar, Vice President, Pune International Centre
Vote of Thanks:
Mr. Abhay Vaidya, Director, Pune International Centre
Distinguished Speakers





Amb. Gautam Bambawale



PDNS 22
Inaugural Session
PDNS 22 Session 1
PDNS 22 Session 2
PDNS 22 Session 3
PDNS 22
Valedictory Session
Pune International Centre (PIC)
Pune International Centre (PIC) is an independent think tank which deliberates on issues of national importance. PIC was launched in September 2011 and contributes to policy making in India. Its members include over 400 eminent individuals, over 50 national institutes, and several leading corporations, from all over India and the world who pool together their resources, capabilities, and experience for shaping the papers and programmes produced by PIC. Dr. Raghunath Mashelkar is the President, PIC and Dr. Vijay Kelkar is the Vice President, PIC.


Policy Perspectives Foundation (PPF)
The Policy Perspectives Foundation (PPF) was founded in 2005 as a non-profit and apolitical think-tank on matters of national interest. The organisation’s activities focus on complex and inter-connected challenges to internal peace, stability and development in India.
It promotes debates and dialogues with scholars, development practitioners, civil society, government organisations and other stakeholders, and implements training, research and advocacy programmes on issues of national interest. The activities of PPF broadly fall under three categories namely capacity building, generation of awareness and social resilience. The organisation draws its strength from its founding members who are experts in the domains of strategic affairs, internal security, sociology, communication, management and governance.
Center for Advance Strategic Studies (CASS)
The Centre which is a nonprofit, apolitical, non-government organisation, aims at undertaking research and analysis of subjects relating to national and international security and development through seminars, discussions, publications at periodic intervals. It also facilitates close interaction with the faculty members and research students in allied disciplines in the Universities/Institutions as also Armed Forces, R&D organisations and Defence Public Sectors Undertakings. It further aims at generating and promoting interest among the students, general public and youth in particular, in these topics, with a view to making them aware of multifarious concerns of national and international security.
