Conference Materials

Conference Materials

General Conference Material

Inaugural Session Flyer

Inaugural Speeches

Amb. Bernard Goonetilleke - Chairman, Pathfinder Foundation & Co - Chair PFIOSC

Amb. Shivshankar Menon - Chairman - International Adivisory Group of the PFIOSC

Keynote Speech by Adm. Prof. Jayanath Colombage - Foreign Secretary

H.E. Aleina Teplitz - U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka & Maldives

H.E. Akira Sugiyama - Ambassador of Japan to Sri Lanka

Conference Papers

Maritime Security and Freedom of Navigation - Admiral Sunil Lanba PVSM, AVSM, (Retd)

Major issues in the Indian Ocean. A glimpse from Moscow - G. Ivashentsov

A U.S. View on Maritime Security in the Indo-Pacific - Nilanthi Samaranayake

Weaponising Connectivity: Exploring Connections and Coercion in the Indo-Pacific - Yogesh Joshi

Connectivity in an Age of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (VUCA): Realising SDG9 amid the COVID Pandemic - Jaimal Anand

Enhancing Connectivity - Rohan Masakorala

Identifying and Addressing Major Issues Including “Trust” and Trust Deficiency - LIU Zongyi

Maintaining Peace and Stability in the Indo-Pacific: Japan’s Approach - Narushige Michishita, Ph.D.

Trust, Mistrust and the Chagos Archipelago Sovereignty Dispute - Samuel Bashfield

Other Related Materials

India's policy on Diego Garcia and its quest for security in the Indian Ocean - Darshana M. Baruah & Yogesh Joshi

Whither Non-Alignment? Indian Ocean Zone of Peace and New Delhi’s Selective Alignment with Great Powers during the Cold War, 1964–1979 - Yogesh Joshi

Pathfinder Foundation

The Pathfinder Foundation (PF) is a non-profit, non-partisan research & advocacy think-tank that has played a direct and catalytic role in promoting economic policy reforms in Sri Lanka.

Email - pm@pathfinderfoundation.org
Contact - 011 452 9952 - 4

Sponsors

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