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Cryptocurrencies: A New Scourge of Terror Financing

...global counter-terrorism community has serious concerns over the use of cryptocurrencies by terrorist groups for terror financing … this essay examines some of the recent cases of the use of virtual currencies for terror financing, and the use o....

August 27, 2018 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Islamic State , Cryptocurrencies , Terror Financing
Round Table Discussion on Afghanistan

A Round Table Discussion (RTD) on Afghanistan’s current situation and the way forward was held at the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) on 15 Nov 2017. The panel of discussants included a broad array of security and foreign policy experts,....

March 23, 2018 Conference , Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Conferences , Islamic State , ISIS , India-Afghanistan relations
Is India Likely to be the Next Major Target of ISIS? - An Analysis of Post-Manhattan Terror Attack

From the reports of the intelligence and security establishment, it is clear that activities of IS sympathisers in India are under control. Indeed, there have been no recent reports of radicalised youth trying to migrate to centers of IS activiti....

December 12, 2017 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Jammu & Kashmir , Islamic State , ISIS , Post-Manhattan Terror Attack
Post-ISIS: Future of Global Jihad
Abhinav Pandya

Post-Islamic State Jihad-Terror As Islamic State (IS), or ISIS (Daesh) is continuously losing territories in Iraq and Syria and with the imminent likelihood of it’s fading into oblivion, sooner than later, the questions that hau....

November 28, 2017 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Counter-terrorism , Islamic State , Radicalisation
Interaction with Amb Tariq Karim, Bangladesh’s former Ambassador to India

Amb Tariq Karim, Bangladesh’s former High Commissioner to India and a Distinguished Fellow at the VIF, delivered a talk on some of the recent developments in Bangladesh on. He broadly dwelt upon the Islamic State (IS) factor in Bangladesh, the upco....

May 29, 2017 Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh , Interaction , Islamic State , Indo-Bangladesh relations
Interaction with Ambassador Peter Burian, EU’s Special Representative for Central Asia, February 10, 2017

Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) invited Amb. Peter Burian, European Union’s Special Representative for Central Asia, on February 10, 2017 to deliver a talk on EU’s perspective and strategy for Central Asia. His address was followed by ....

February 15, 2017 International Relations and Diplomacy , Central Asia , Interaction , Islamic State , EU , Central Asian Republic , Southern Gas Corridor
Internal Security and Police Reforms
Prakash Singh

Policing in contemporary India has turned into a major challenge, This challenge requires the evolution of new policing culture, better training, comprehensive modernisation and astute personnel management. However, efforts made towards that directio....

October 03, 2016 National Security and Strategic Studies , Jammu & Kashmir , Internal Security , Islamic State , North East , Police Reforms , Left-wing extremism
Vimarsha on 'Jihadist Threat to India – The Case for Islamic Reformation by an Indian Muslim'

Given below is the text of the speech delivered by Tufail Ahmad, Director of South Asia Studies Project at the Washington D.C.-based Middle East Media Research Institute, on the occasion of the release of his book in New Delhi. The book, "Jihadist....

April 04, 2016 Vimarsh , National Security and Strategic Studies , Islamic State , Indian Muslims , Jihadist Threat to India , Islamic Reformation
Syria: The Russians are leaving, or are they?
Lt General S A Hasnain, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM (Bar), VSM (Bar) (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Russian President Putin’s decision to pull out his military resources from Syria has been received with much skepticism and analysts are pulling out all the stops to examine the decision from every angle. Till late the Russian Air Force was using i....

April 02, 2016 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Islamic State , Daesh , ISIS , Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Daesh in Iraq: A Concern for Iran
Alvite Singh Ningthoujam

Living with challenges has become a norm for the Islamic Republic of Iran. After the 1979 Islamic Revolution, it witnessed some mega problems, including eight-year war with Iraq, controversial nuclear programme, international sanctions, etc. Curre....

March 30, 2016 Terrorism , Iran , Islamic State , Daesh , ISIS , Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
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