Dr Arpita Anant is Research Fellow at the Vivekananda International Foundation. She holds a PhD in International Politics from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her Ph.D thesis was entitled “Group Rights in the Indian and International Discourses”. She was awarded the ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship and the Commonwealth Visiting Fellowship (Canada) during 2001-02 to undertake doctoral research. She has also worked at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi. Her current area of research is India’s multilateralism. Her wider areas of interest are global governance and India’s foreign policy. She is the editor of Non-State Armed Groups in South Asia: A Preliminary Structured Focused Comparison (New Delhi, Pentagon Security International, 2012) and author of Beyond Stereotypes: Contours of the Transition in Jammu and Kashmir (IDSA Monograph No. 16, April 2013), Development and India’s Economic Multilateralism: Where From…Where to? (IDSA Monograph No.68, December 2020), India's Role in Global Governance: Assessment of Engagement with Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding (IDSA Monograph No. 78, August 2022).

Contributions 
Livelihood Alternatives: Enhancing rural development by supporting small farmers In Odisha, the rural landscape is dotted with examples of individual excellence in the agri- development space. However, when it comes to collective efforts at economic transformation, the success has not been very encouraging. Many of the collective...

India’s G20 Presidency: What it Means for Global Governance The grand finale of the year-long presidency of the G20 took place on 9-10 September 2023 at New Delhi. The leaders of the G20 met and adopted the G20 New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration. The significance of the adoption of the Declaration has been ...

World Bank Reforms and Climate Change Introduction There is a growing debate on the reform of multilateral development banks to provide ‘global public goods’. At the behest of G20, an independent review of the Capital Adequacy Framework of multilateral development banks w...

Downtown Heroes Football Club (FC): Kashmir Valley The Kashmir Valley has been a disturbed area for several decades. It has witnessed the waxing and waning of Pakistan-sponsored terrorism and this has had a deep impact on the lives of people. Several initiatives have been undertaken by the Union and ...

Saving the Tiger The Indian Express reported recently that Project Tiger, which was launched in 1973 to conserve the wild tiger population in India, completes fifty years in 2023. This is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme of the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climat...

VIF Briefs 
India and the BRICS: A Post-XVth Summit Assessment Among the many landmarks in the evolution of the BRICS, the XVth Summit held in August 2023 will find a mention because unlike other landmarks in specific areas of cooperation since the first Summit in 2009, this Summit added six new members to the g...

Event Reports 
Values for Reforming Multilateralism and Creating a New World Order In the past few years, the international system has increasingly displayed tendencies of being subordinate to narrow national interests. The COVID pandemic revealed the limits of cooperation when countries turned inwards to cope with the deadly virus...

Vimarsh on “India’s G20 Presidency: Forging Actionable Agenda for Global South” The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) in collaboration with the India Writes Network/Centre for Global India Insights organized a Vimarsh panel discussion on “India’s G20 Presidency: Forging Actionable Agenda for Global South” on 24 Fe...

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