Goa Maritime Dialogues
Distinguished Lectures on “Maritime Security & Naval Diplomacy”

by Admiral Arun Prakash PVSM, AVSM, AvC, VSM
Former Chief of Naval Staff
on “India’s Maritime Security: Perceptions & Changing Demands”

& Admiral Sureesh Mehta PVSM, AVSM
Former Chief of Naval Staff,
Chairman, National Maritime Foundation and High Commissioner of India for New Zealand
on “Maritime Awareness & Naval Diplomacy”

The lectures will be chaired by Professor Varun Sahni, Vice Chancellor, Goa University

Friday | 31st March 2017 | 5.30 pm – 7.30 pm

Co-organised by The International Centre Goa,
BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus and Indian Council for Social Sciences Research (ICSSR)

Entry Free & open to all

Goa Maritime Dialogues (GMD) is an academic extension of ICSSR funded Maritime Project headed by Prof. RP Pradhan, BITS Pilani Goa Campus. While the maritime project is a comparative academic mapping of India’s physical maritime resources and efficiency including naval diplomacy, Goa Maritime Dialogue (GMD) is an India centric intellectual platform of maritime academics, practitioners and professionals towards idea-nation of the sectors strength and challenges which could be beneficial to India’s larger maritime strategic and economic vision.