Venue: IDSA Auditorium

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Programme

09:40-10:00 hrs: Arrival of Participants; Tea/Coffee served

Inaugural Session
10:00-10:10 hrs: Welcome Remarks by Director General, IDSA
10:10-10:40 hrs: Keynote Address by Foreign Secretary Mr. Ranjan Mathai
10:40-11:10 hrs: Discussion

11:10-11.30 hrs: Tea/Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 hrs: Session 1: Asymmetric Warfare and International Security
Chair: Dr. Arvind Gupta, Lal Bahadur Shastri Chair, IDSA
IISS Speaker: Mr. Nigel Inkster, IISS Director of Transnational Threats & Political Risk
Indian Speaker: Dr. S. Kalyanaraman, Research Fellow, IDSA

13:00-14:00 hrs: Working Lunch

14:00-15:30 hrs: Session 2: Towards Stability in Pakistan & Afghanistan?
Chair: Amb. Yash Sinha, Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran), MEA
Indian Speaker: Dr. Ashok Behuria, Research Fellow, IDSA
IISS Speaker: Brig. (Retd.) Ben Barry, IISS Senior Fellow for Land Warfare

15:30-16:00 hrs: Tea/Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 hrs: Session 3: Engaging a Rising China
Chair: Mr. Gautam Bambawale, Joint Secretary (East Asia), MEA
IISS Speaker: Mr. Adam Ward, IISS Director of Studies
Indian Speaker: Dr. C. Raja Mohan, Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research

17:30-17:45 hrs: Concluding Remarks
by Amb. Pinak Chakravarty, Special Secretary (Public Diplomacy), MEA
by Mr. Rahul Roy-Chaudhury, IISS Senior Fellow for South Asia

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