AIMS & OBJECTIVES

SASSI aims to make a leading contribution to regional and international academic and policy-orientated research discourses about South Asian security. Its work is focussed on strategic stability in South Asia and thus on the emergent nuclear relationship which is at the heart of that stability.

However SASSI�s remit goes beyond nuclear stability to include the wider issues of chemical and biological weapons, conventional force balance, civil-military relations, social and political stability, religious extremism, and the disputed territory of Kashmir, which inform the nature of security and stability in the South Asian security complex and thus impact on the nuclear relationship.

The South Asian Strategic Stability Institute (SASSI) aims to make a leading contribution about the South Asian security problematic. The institute focuses primarily on the nuclear and the strategic stability debate in South Asia. The work and the studies carried out by the institute are aimed at bringing together the various schools of thought ranging from the social; natural sciences as well as the policy makers; journalists and academia.

SASSI seeks to encourage innovation in thinking about these issues and in particular welcomes young scholars and the application of new ideas in peace and security thinking to the South Asian security problematic. To meet this challenge SASSI's main objectives are:

  • engage the academic and policy communities in serious debate about the promotion of strategic stability in South Asia;


  • promote innovative ideas to reduce tension and build trust and cooperation in the area of WMD;


  • contribute to academic and policy processes for establishing an arms control regime for South Asia;


  • facilitate South Asian scholars in the development of security research capacity in the field of WMD;


  • provide an independent and neutral platform on which South Asian scholars and other interested parties can meet to engage with South Asian strategic stability issues; and


  • to network and cooperate with individuals and organizations across the world with shared objectives.