Succeeding ‘Global Orders’ across the ages, have become  more connected through science and technology. A corresponding transformation of society has given rise to dominant civilisations in different eras up to the present, where we are witnessing a cataclysmic  restructuring of the current World Order.

The present, second decade of the 21st Century is witnessing  fundamental global strategic restructuring, configured around the traditional powers of the past century and the emerging Asian civilizational powers of China, India, Japan, Korea and Iran. It is driven primarily by economic dynamism, growth and prosperity.

The thrust for dominance in a multipolar world has resulted in the emergence of two blocs – one led by the US and the other by China – with the aspirational  middle powers of India, Japan and Germany under pressure to choose one side or the other, as in the Cold War era of the Eastern and Western power blocs.

Are we witnessing a repetition of history or will there be clear break from the oppressive, cyclical past?

Is the turbulence of change, fuelled by the ascendance of  China and India as military and economic powers, forcing equitable and just reforms on obsolete global multilateral institutions?

At the approach of the third decade of the 21st century – conditioned by the simultaneous surge of both conflict and disease across the globe, influenced by tremendous scientific advances in the virtual world – is the human factor becoming the lagging link?

How national governments and populations respond to these daunting challenges and fearsome uncertainties are the issues that form the substance and context of the ‘International Relations’ Lectures presented by India’s preeminent liberal arts and sciences college – St Stephen’s College, through its Centre for Advanced Learning, and the internationally reputed Global Dialogue Forum.

On offer is a two week, online Advanced Certificate Course – ‘INDIA AND THE RESHAPING OF THE WORLD ORDER’ – from September 21, 2020 to October 2, 2020.

Programme

Programme

Monday, September 21, 2020

Welcome Address

Professor John Varghese, Principal, St Stephen’s College

Inaugural Lecture – The Emerging Multipolar Landscape and India

Mr. Harsh Vardhan Singla,  the Foreign Secretary of India

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

The New Economic Order and its effect on Globalization, Trade and the Commercial Interests of Developing Countries

1400 hrs to 1530 hrs

Lecture – Dr. Maya Tudor, Associate Professor, Blavatnik School of Government, Fellow, St. Hilda’s College, Oxford University

1400 hrs to 1530 hrs

Lecture – Mr. Gita Wirjawan, Indonesia’s former Minister of Trade, Chairman of the Advisory Board, School of Government and Public Policy, Indonesia

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

South Asia and Afghanistan is the Extended Neighbourhood of India

1400 hrs to 1530 hrs

Lecture – Professor Rashed Uz Zaman, Department of International Relations, University of Dhaka, Dhaka on regional cooperation in the Bay of Bengal community

1530 hrs to 1700 hrs

Lecture – Ambassador Vikram Doraiswami IFS, India’s High Commissioner designate to Bangladesh on India’s way ahead in the Neighbourhood

1700 hrs to 1830 hrs

Lecture – Maj General B.K. Sharma (Retd), Director, United Service Institution of India on the extended Neighbourhood and India 

Thursday, September 24, 2020

Education as a Critical Driving Force in Developing Nations

1400 hrs to 1530 hrs

Lecture – Dr. Kavita A Sharma, former President, South Asian University, New Delhi

1530-1700 hrs

Lecture – Ms Atishi Marlena Singh. Educationist, member of Delhi State Assembly

Friday, September 25, 2020

The Indo Pacific Vision and China

1330 hrs to 1500 hrs

Lecturer – Dr. Christopher Snedden, eminent Australian strategic  analyst, previously Professor at Asia Pacific Centre for Security Studies) in Hawaii, US

1500 hrs to 1630 hrs

Lecture – Ms. Connie Bakrie, President, Indonesia’s Institute for Maritine Studies, Jakarta. And  Trustee of National Air Power and Space Centre of Indonesia

1630 hrs to 1800hrs

Lecture – Commodore Anil Jai Singh (Retd), Vice President of the Indian Maritime Foundation

Monday, September 28, 2020

In Pursuit of Sustainable Environment and Equitable Development

1400 hrs to 1530 hrs

Lecturer – Ashok Swain, Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, UNESCO Chair of International Water Cooperation, Director of Research, School of International Water Cooperation, Uppsala University, Sweden

1530 hrs to 1700 hrs

Lecture – Professor Prashant Goswami, leading Climatologist, Chairman, Institute of Frontier Acience and Application, Bangalore

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Data, Cyber, AI and Space Determine the Frontiers of War and Peace

1400 hrs to 1530 hrs

Lecture – Air Marshal Diptendu Choudhury, AVSM, VSM, VM, Commandant of the National Defence College, New Delhi 

1530 hrs to 1700 hrs

Lecture – Lt. General P.J.S. Pannu PVSM, AVSM, VSM, (Retd), former Deputy Chief, Integrated Defence Staff, Indian Armed Forces

1700 hrs to 1830 hrs

Lecture – Mr. Ranganath Sadasiva, Chief Technology Officer, Hybrid IT, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, India, Bangalore

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

International Justice Systems and the New World Order

1400 hrs to 1530 hrs

Lecture – Rt. Hon.  Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, former Chief Justice of England and Wales

1530 hrs to 1700 hrs

Dr. Jill Goldenziel, associate Professor of international Relations, Marine Corps University, Quantico, US

1700 hrs to 1830 hrs

Lecture – Justice Kurian Joseph, former Judge of the Supreme Court of India

 Thursday, October 1, 2020

India-China Relations- alternate Paradigms

1330 hrs to 1500 hrs

Lecture – Ambassador Shivshankar Menon IFS (Retd), former National Security Adviser of India

1530 hrs to 1630 hrs

Lecture – Professor (Dr.) Song Zhihui, Vice Dean, School of international Studies, Sichuan University, Chengdhu , China

1630 hrs to 1800 hrs

Lecture – Mr. Salman Khurshid, former External Affairs Minister of India

1800 hrs to 1930 hrs

Lecture- Lt General SL Narasimhan, PVSM, AVSM, VSM(Retd), Director General , Centre for Contemporary China Studies, Member, National Security Advisory Board

Friday, October 2, 2020

 PANEL DISCUSSION

Peace and Conflict Resolution – Theory and Practice        

Panelist – Ms. Lena Sundh, Senior Swedish diplomat (Retd), Chair of UN’s International Commission of Inquiry for Mali, Member, Swedish Women Mediation Network

Panelist – Dr. Tasneem Meenai,  Professor at the Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

Panelist – Lt. General Satish Nambiar, PVSM, AVSM, VrC (Retd), Padma Bhushan, first Head of the UN Protection Forces (UNPROFOR) in the former Yugoslavia

Moderator – Mr. Moses Manoharan, Chair, Global Dialogue Forum

VALEDICTORY LECTURE

Applying Mahatma Gandhi’s principles to Peaceful Conflict Resolution

Mr. Gopalkrishna Gandhi, distinguished civil servant, former Governor of West Bengal state.

PARTNER

St. Stephen’s College Centre for Advanced Learning