INDO-PACIFIC REGIONAL DIALOGUE (IPRD) - 2019

About: 

• Organized by: The idea of an annual IPRD was first conceptualised and conducted in 2018, as the apex level conference of the Indian Navy, organised by the National Maritime Foundation (NMF) as the Navy’s Knowledge Partner. 
  
  
• Objective: To provide a platform to focus attention on the Indo-Pacific, as a maritime geographical-entity, while deliberating aspects of great relevance to regional geopolitics. 
  
  
• Permanent theme: Review of India’s opportunities and challenges in the Indo-Pacific region. 
  
  
• Themes of 2019 edition: This dialogue will examine five fresh themes: 
  • Practical solutions for achieving cohesion in the region through maritime connectivity; 
    
    
  • Measures to attain and maintain a free-and-open Indo-Pacific; 
    
    
  • A regional approach to the region’s transition from a ‘Brown’ to a ‘Blue’ economy; 
    
    
  • Opportunities and challenges arising from the maritime impact of ‘Industry 4.0’; and 
    
    
  • How the twin conceptualisations of ‘SAGAR’ and ‘SAGARMALA’ might best be made mutually-reinforcing on a regional level. 
    
    
  
  
  
• Participants: Policy-makers from thirteen countries of the Indo-Pacific — Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, China, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Seychelles, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America — will attend it.