The Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue 2021( IPRD ) is being held as a three-day online event from today. This year IPRD will focus on eight specific sub-themes under the broad theme of “Evolution in Maritime Strategy during the 21st Century: Imperatives, Challenges, and, Way Ahead”.
Panel-discussions would be spread over eight sessions on all three days, providing ample scope for varied perspectives to be considered. The main goal is to encourage a free flow of ideas and views.
The eight sub-themes are:
(1) Evolving Maritime Strategies within the Indo-Pacific: Convergences, Divergences, Expectations and Apprehensions.
(2) Adaptive Strategies to Address the Impact of Climate Change upon Maritime Security.
(3) Port-led Regional Maritime Connectivity and Development Strategies.
(4) Cooperative Maritime Domain Awareness Strategies.
(5) Impact of the Increasing Recourse to Lawfare upon a Rules-based Indo-Pacific Maritime Order.
(6) Strategies to Promote Regional Public-Private Maritime Partnerships.
(7) Energy-Insecurity and Mitigating Strategies.
(8) Strategies to Address the Manned-Unmanned Conundrum at Sea.
The sessions will be addressed by the Defence Minister, Rajnath Singh the External Affairs Minister, Dr. S. Jaishankar and the Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Hardeep S Puri.
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