Non-traditional Security Studies addresses the mounting non-traditional issues and challenges in the South Asian region arising from non-military sources, such as Climate Change, Irregular Migration, Terrorism, Resource Wars, Disaster Management, Drug Trafficking, Transnational Crime etc. Factors as such are the security challenges that aren’t considered mainstream and are emerging as dynamics in conflict therefore affecting the national and international security becoming a part of non-traditional security issues that has emerged as the greatest challenges of 21st century.
It should be a priority for South Asian nations to bridge the growing asymmetries by working on long-term synergies from informal networks such as the South Asia Foresight Network, dedicated to finding synergetic thinking beyond the present ‘zero sum’ thinking. ...
There is a possibility for more initiatives in areas such as climate change, biodiversity, global marine commons, sea connectivity and trade, rules-based order, and values of democracy for governance ...
To prevent illegal poaching, which has come to be recognised as a serious issue concerning the loss of biodiversity, the Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security (PAWS) was developed which used machine learning to predict potential poaching hotspots ...
Mentioning South Asian economies, the World Bank Vice President for South Asia, commented, “High oil and food prices caused by the war in Ukraine will have a strong negative impact on people's real incomes” ...
Social, economic and political impacts were very much visible but the impacts that went unnoticed were the impact on women of Afghanistan. The Taliban coming to power was not less than nightmare for women as their rise denied women from availing existing opportunities and made the women of Afghanistan see their future in bleak with no opportunities coming their way. ...
Anarchy, as it exists today, is more so for the TNCs rather than States. Global governance has surely evolved, but the next big challenge is to extend the governance umbrella over TNCs ...
The reluctance of nations to enter into a binding international agreement which limits their cyber capacities further prevents them from entering into cyber-warfare, aside from the lack of a proper recognition of the idea of cyberwars between nations in the international law community ...
This slow and gradual damage to Colombo is a matter of grave concern, and other countries caught in this vicious cycle of loans must learn lessons from the Sri Lankan experience ...
Artificial Intelligence points to the fact that humans are now more connected to each other than in any other period in history and the it also raises vital issues that many are concerned about, and ranges from invasion of privacy to manipulation of political decisions of voters during an election ...
Black Lives Matter Movement and the ‘Problem of Problems’ of the 21st Century
The video of George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer caused a flood of emotions that has pushed people all around the globe to take to the streets and the internet to make their demand for racial justice ...