Dy. Director General, IDSA, Brig. Rumel Dahiya, SM (Retd), participated in an international seminar on "The Arab Spring: Region and India" held at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi on February 16, 2012 and spoke on the subject "Situation in Syria and Role of Turkey".

Senior Research Associate, IDSA, Dr Rajiv Nayan, was interviewed by the Rajya Sabha channel on the Iran crisis, on February 16, 2012.

Representing the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP-India), Research Fellow, IDSA, Dr Uttam Sinha spoke at the 3rd CSCAP Study Group Meeting on Water Resources Security at the Japan Institute for International Affairs (JIIA), Tokyo on February 7, 2012.

Senior Fellow, IDSA, Kishalay Bhattacharjee was a panellist in a book discussion on 'Rainbow People: Reinventing Northeast India' by Falguni Rajkumar.

Senior Fellow, IDSA, Mr Kishalay Bhattacharjee, spoke at the UGC sponsored one-day symposium on ‘India: A Million Mutinies’, organised by the Human Rights Programme, Department of Political Science, Jamia Millia Islamia, on February 1, 2012.

Senior Research Associate, IDSA, Dr Rajiv Nayan spoke on ‘Forced convergence: India-Australia Security Relationship' during the Inaugural Australia India Youth Dialogue at Hotel Oberoi, New Delhi, on January 31, 2012.