Research Fellow, IDSA, Col PK Gautam (Retd) gave a presentation on ‘Impact of Indian Security on Tibet: (the Strategic Frontier of India)’ at a seminar on ‘How important is Tibet issue to India’, organised by Tibetan Parliament- in- Exile and Gandhi Bhavan, Lucknow, at Lucknow, on February 27, 2018.

Dr Uttam Sinha, Research Fellow, IDSA, delivered a talk on ‘India's Resource Management’ for the foreign delegates of the MEA-ITEC Programme, conducted by TERI, on February 23, 2018.

Senior Research Associate, IDSA, Ms Ruchita Beri delivered a lecture on ‘Emergence of Africa and India’s Robust Partnership’ at RIS, New Delhi, for the Capacity Building Programme on ‘International Economic Issues and Development Policy (IEIDP)’ under the ITEC/SCAAP Programme of the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, on February 20, 2018.

Senior Research Associate, IDSA, Ms Ruchita Beri presented a paper on ‘Asia-Africa Growth Corridor: A new framework for cooperation’ at the International Conference on ‘India and Africa: An Afro Asian perspective’, organised by the Academy of International Studies (AIS), Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, on February 15-16, 2018.

Associate Fellow, IDSA, Ms Shruti Pandalai presented a paper on ‘China’s approach to soft power projection’ at a lecture by the Jindal School of International Affairs on February 16, 2018. The lecture was a part of the China-India Seminar Series.

Associate Fellow, IDSA, Dr Prashant Kumar Singh presented a paper titled ‘Xi Jinping's New China: A Challenge for India’ at the National Conference on India-China Relations: Exploring the Evolving Strategic Dimensions on February 15-16, 2018. The conference was organised by the Department of Defence and Strategic Studies (DDSS), Yashwantrao Chavan National Centre of International Security and Defence Analysis (YCNISDA), Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, and the Institute for Chinese Studies (ICS), New Delhi.

Associate Fellow, IDSA, Dr Rajeesh Kumar presented a paper on ‘From Bush to Trump: American Exceptionalism and its Implications for Multilateralism’ at the 'New Colonialism: American Model of Human Rights' Conference, organised by IHRC, London, UK, on February 10, 2018.

Associate Fellow, IDSA, Dr Rajeesh Kumar presented a paper on ‘International Humanitarian Organisations in Internal Armed Conflicts’ at the 6th Liberal Arts International Conference, organised by Texas A&M University, Doha, Qatar, on Feb 4-6, 2018.

Research Scholars, IDSA, Dr Uttam Sinha and Dr Ashok Behuria discussed activities related to the IDSA-ORF Sunderban Report with the World Bank on February 2, 2018.

Associate Fellow, IDSA, S Samuel C Rajiv was part of a panel discussion on ‘Nuclear Armament, Conflict and Human Security’, organised by the India-Russia Youth Forum at the India International Centre (IIC), on January 30, 2018.