Raisina Security Dialogue: Away from the spotlight, India holds conference of global intelligence chiefs

Source: The post is based on the article “Away from the spotlight, India holds conference of global intelligence chiefs” published in The Hindu on 6th March 2023.

What is the News?

India has held the second Raisina Security Dialogue conference.

What is Raisina Security Dialogue?

Raisina Security Dialogue is a conference of intelligence and security chiefs and top officials from around the world.

Organized by: Research and Analysis Wing(R&AW) and the National Security Council Secretariat(NSCS).

The conference was held for the first time in 2022, a day before the start of Raisina Dialogue.

The focus of the discussions of the dialogue was largely focused on global security which encompassed counterterrorism, radicalisation, drugs trafficking, and illegal arms smuggling among others.

The conference is modelled on the lines of the Munich Security Conference and Singapore’s Shangri­La Dialogue.

What is Raisina Dialogue?

Raisina Dialogue is India’s flagship conference on geopolitics and geo-strategy.

It is organized by the Ministry of External Affairs in collaboration with the Observer Research Foundation(ORF).

Theme for 2023: “Provocation, Uncertainty, Turbulence: Lighthouse in the Tempest”