National Security Conference, July 05-06 2008

[Bodhi]

Theme and schedule of sessions

<b>1. Inaugural Session: </b>
9:30 am - 10:45 am

Welcome – Shri Kedar Nath Sahani
SPMRF introduction- Dr. Harsh Vardhan
Concept introduction- Prof. P.Stobdan
Theme presentation – Shri Tarun Vijay
Inaugural address - Gen. V.P.Malik

(Co-ordinators- Shri Bimal Lath, Shri Bikash Bhattacharya)

10:45 am - Tea break -15 mts.

<b>Second session – 11:00 am to 1:00 pm</b>
2. Emerging National Security Challenges
Challenges to India’s Nuclear Policy; Nature and Responses to the Threat of Terrorism; Emerging Military Threats & Defence Policy Options,
<b>Chair - Shri Bhaskar Ray </b>
Gen. V.P.Malik (Theme-Indian defence forces’ preparedness to face challenges in 21st century)
Kiran Rijiju
Lt. Gen N.S.Malik
Shri Ajai Sahani
Jatin Mohanty
(Coordinators- Dr. Debabrata Chowdhary, Shri Anirban Ganguly)
Lunch break - 1:30 to 2:30pm

<b>Third session – 2:30 to 4:30pm</b>
Regional Security Challenges; Unstable neighborhood and its politico-security consequences; Maoism in Nepal, HuJI in Bangladesh, Multilateralism & Regionalism as an Option;

<b>Chair - Shri BB Nandi</b>
Maj. Gen Ashok Mehta
Shri Manas Ghosh
Shri Ajai Sahani
Col. Sabyasachi Bagchi
Bijoy Kumar Adya
Thanks-Shri Shyam Jaju
(Coordinator- Dr.Jatin Mohanty, Shri Tathagat Ray, Shri Shyam Jaju)

4:30 – 4:45 Tea break

<b>Fourth session - 4:45 - 6:30 pm </b>
Challenges to national identity (What forms a national identity, space for regional identities and aspirations, the thread that binds India as one people, one nation?)

<b>Chair - Shri G. Parthasarathy</b>
Key note - Shri Thupstan Chhewang
Shri Manas Ghosh
Ms. Sandhya Jain
Shri Tathagata Roy
Shri Asim Kumar Mitra
Shri Rabi Ranjan Sen
Dr. S. Trivedi

(Coordinators- Shri Bimal Lath, Shri Manmohan Garodia,)

<b>6th July 2008, Sunday,
First session – 9:30 am to 11:00 am</b>
Dealing with rising China; International factors, security, border issue and the road ahead

<b>Chair - Shri Arun Shourie</b>
Shri P. Stobdan
Shri Bhaskar Roy
Shri B.B.Nandi
Shri Dattatreya Hosbale
(Coordinator-Shri AsimKumar Mitra, Shri Arindam Mukherji)
11:00 am to 11:15 am – tea break

<b>Second session 11:15 am to 12:00 pm </b>
Developments in the neighbouring Islamic countries

<b>Chair - Shri Chandan Mitra</b>
Shri G.Parthasarathy
Shri Manas Ghosh
Ms. Sandhya Jain

(Coordinators-Dr. Debobrata Chowdhary , Shri Anirban Ganguly)

12:00 pm:
Valedictory address - <b>Shri Jaswant Singh, Leader of opposition, Rajya Sabha</b>
Theme-Shaping a national security and foreign Policy in the 21st Century
Chair-Justice Chittatosh Mookerjee, former chief justice, Kolkata High Court
Foundational note and conclusions - Dr. Harsh Vardhan
The road ahead and thanks - Shri Kidar Nath Sahani
(Coordinators-Shri Rabi Ranjan Sen, Shri Amitabh Chakravarty)

Concluding session with Vande Mataram