NON-TRADITIONAL SECURITY STUDIES
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.
ARTICLES
Growth of Terrorism in South Asia: The Afghanistan’s Perspectives
The only way to defeat terrorism is by developing a regional and global consensus and developing a comprehensive regional and global counter-terrorism strategy.
Stateless but Skilled: Understanding Situation of Terrorist Brides and Children
Jihadist terrorism is a global problem and states must act together to deal with it because with nearly 40,000 fighters joining the caliphate from across the world only shows how global and deeply rooted the phenomenon is.
Asymmetric Conflict in South Asia: The Murking Danger
Each country in the region has had its share of acquaintance with asymmetric conflicts in different time-frames and in varying intensities. The South Asian countries may not be able to obliterate asymmetric conflicts but mitigating them is the need of the hour.
Gendered Perspective in Pakistan’s Anti-COVID 19 Policy
The pandemic has opened up new spaces for women to be agents of peace within the country and beyond. It is proposed that female Led Health Diplomacy can be initiated through SAARC for lasting and sustainable peace in South Asia.
Extremism and Radicalization: Understanding the Nature of the Non-Traditional Threat
The current pandemic has presented a good opportunity, as it has led to the reduction of such violent acts. Further, it has also provided time for leaders and policy makers to rethink and re-evaluate- what could be amended and what new policies could be adopted.
Mapping Human Security in Bangladesh – An Overview of Climate Change Induced Risks and its Consequences
Bangladesh has done fairly well in disaster management and preparedness but climate change is not to be dealt with in solitary, especially when their contribution to global emission is negligible while its vulnerabilities are at a maximum.
Understanding the Youth Radicalisation in South Asia
26 July 2020, NIICE Commentary 5658 Karnika Jain Given that the radicalisation and terrorism in the region are being studied extensively for a long time, the region still is confronting the blight of the problem. The South Asian region has faced a multitude of challenges ever since the countries got independent. But one of the challenges that South Asia faces today is the rapid growth of radical tendencies. Thus, when combined with terrorist violence, it poses a major threat to peace and security of the region. As per the report of Global Terrorism Index 2019, South Asia is recorded as
COVID-19 and Dilution of Labour Laws in India
There is a need to bring in channelised regulations through consensual amendments in the labour laws providing them security benefits through rationalization of the aforesaid regulations.