In news– The fourth edition of the Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue (IPRD) was started recently.
What is Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue (IPRD)?
- IPRD is an apex level international annual conference of the Indian Navy.
- The National Maritime Foundation is Navy’s knowledge partner and chief organizer of each edition of the event.
- The theme of IPRD-2022 is the ‘Operationalising the Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative’.
- The theme was articulated by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India in Bangkok, at the 14th East Asia Summit (EAS) on 04 November 2019.
- The IPOI Is a comprehensive and inclusive construct for regional cooperation that is focused on seven interconnected spokes or pillars: Maritime Security, Maritime Ecology, Maritime Resources, Disaster Risk-reduction and Management, Trade-Connectivity and Maritime Transport, Capacity-building and Resource sharing, and Science, Technology and Academic Cooperation.
- The IPRD seeks to foster exchange of ideas and promote deliberations on regionally relevant maritime issues.
- Being a Track 1.5 event that aims to encourage discussions on public policy, the IPRD endeavors for a balanced representation from government and non-government agencies and institutions.
- The first two editions of IPRD were held in 2018 and 2019 respectively at New Delhi.
- The aim of each successive edition of the IPRD is to review both opportunities and challenges that arise within the Indo-Pacific.
About National Maritime Foundation(NMF)-
- The genesis of the NMF, New Delhi, lies in a long-felt need to redress India’s historical neglect of its maritime domain.
- The NMF was accordingly established, in 2005, as the nation’s first maritime think-tank for the conduct of independent and policy-relevant research on all ‘matters maritime’.
- It was, from it very inception, designed to create and heighten maritime awareness amongst India’s policy-makers, intellectual echelons, and civil society at large.
- While the NMF is an independent and autonomous think-tank, its intellectual and organisational development is supported by the Ministry of Defence and the Indian Navy.
Source: PIB
