Raisina Security Dialogue
- March 6, 2023
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Raisina Security Dialogue
Subject : International Relations
Section: Msc
Concept :
- India recently held the second edition of the Raisina Security Dialogue.
Raisina Security Dialogue:
- It is a conference of intelligence and security chiefs and top officials from around the world.
- It is modeled on the lines of the Munich Security Conference and Singapore’s Shangri-La Dialogue.
- It is organized by the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) and the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS).
- It was held for the first time in April 2022.
Raisina Security Dialogue 2023:
- This is the second edition of the dialogue.
- It saw participation from over 26 countries, including intelligence chiefs from the U.K, Japan, France, and Bahrain.
- The focus of the discussions was largely on global security, which encompassed counterterrorism, radicalization, drug trafficking, and illegal arms smuggling, among others.
Munich Security Conference:
- It is an annual conference on international security policy that has been held in Munich, Bavaria, Germany since 1963.
- It has become the most important independent forum for the exchange of views by international security policy decision-makers.
- The list of attendees includes heads of state, governments and international organizations, ministers, members of parliament, high-ranking representatives of armed forces, science, and civil society, as well as business and media.
- The conference is held annually in February. The venue is the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
Shangri-La Dialogue:
- It is Asia’s premier defense and security summit.
- It is attended by Defence Ministers, permanent heads of ministries and military chiefs of 28 Asia-Pacific countries.
- It is organized by an independent think-thank, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).
- The summit is named after the Shangri-La hotel in Singapore, where it has been held since 2002.