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With a keen focus on our partners’ aspirations and contextual requirements, our meticulously designed projects strive to create enduring and impactful change. By combining research, practical experience, and innovative methodologies, our interdisciplinary approach remains at the forefront of our project design. Embedded within our process, conflict sensitivity ensures successful outcomes and fosters peace and stability. Our rigorous monitoring and evaluation framework enables us to continually track progress, identify obstacles, and make informed decisions. Upholding global financial transparency standards, we ensure ethical resource allocation and financial reporting in project delivery.
India-Europe Relations: Advancing Policy Alignment
This project, in cooperation with Heinrich Böll Stiftung India, explores the evolving contours of the India-Europe partnership in light of upcoming...
Find out More >Enhancing Australia-India Underwater Domain Awareness Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific
This joint project with the University of Western Australia Defence and Security Institute (UWA DSI) aims to strengthen bilateral cooperation...
Find out More >Republic of Korea Chair
The India-ROK relationship has evolved significantly, marked by their 2023 Special Strategic Partnership anniversary. While historically limited, shared concerns about...
Find out More >Republic of Korea-India-US Cooperation in Shipbuilding
The project explores the potential for trilateral cooperation between the Republic of Korea, India, and the United States in the...
Find out More >India-Canada Research Initiative
The India-Canada Research Initiative at CSDR is a pioneering project aimed at enhancing bilateral relations between India and Canada.
Find out More >Advancing Meaningful Participation of Women in UN Peace Operations
The project aims to research the impact of caring responsibilities on the representation of women in armed forces and police...
Find out More >The Chao Track Experts Dialogue
The Chao Track facilitates India-Pakistan Track II dialogues, focusing on non-traditional security themes like Climate Change in 2022, to foster...
Find out More >The SpeeD-IL Project: Speech Datasets and Models for Indian Languages
The SpeeD-IL project, in collaboration with UnReaL-TecE LLP and Karya Inc., aims to develop speech resources for India's underrepresented languages,...
Find out More >POLING – Political Opinion Analysis using Linguistic Data
The POLING project applies computational linguistics to analyze social media for political sentiment in India, covering Meitei, Malayalam, Hindi, and...
Find out More >Communal and Misogynistic Aggression in Hindi-English-Bangla (The ComMA Project)
This project, in partnership with Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University and UnReaL-TecE LLP, studies social media's communal and misogynistic content in...
Find out More >Measuring Harm Potential of Online Hate Speech
This project is developing a framework to assess the 'harm potential' of online posts in India, collaborating with experts across...
Find out More >South Asian Futures Fellowship Programme
The South Asian Futures Fellowship supports 15 ECRs from India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Bhutan to explore NTS issues in South...
Find out More >Ocean of Churn: Synergising Values
This project explores Indo-Pacific values via research and 60+ expert interviews across ten countries, aiming to influence regional conduct with...
Find out More >The Chao Track Economic Connectivity Dialogue
The Chao Track Economic Connectivity Dialogue fosters India-Pakistan collaboration, uniting researchers and policymakers to explore mutual economic benefits for South...
Find out More >Indo-Pacific Circle (IPC)
IPC aims to foster an inclusive Indo-Pacific discourse through a platform for scholars and articles. It features the bi-annual Indo-Pacific...
Find out More >The Indo-Pak Climate Collective (IPCC)
The Indo-Pak Climate Collective unites experts from both countries to enhance collaboration on Climate Change, focusing on Transboundary Smog in...
Find out More >Enhancing Civil-Military fusion in the Indian Army
CSDR's project for the AMSB focused on enhancing civil-military, military-industry, and military-bureaucracy fusion in the Indian Army, involving literature reviews,...
Find out More >South Asia Water Diplomacy Initiative
The South Asia Water Diplomacy Initiative crafted a framework to enhance Water Diplomacy in the region, analyzing bilateral water relations...
Find out More >India-Brazil defense industrial partnership
This project analyzes Indian defense manufacturing, legal frameworks, and incentives, exploring Indo-Brazilian defense joint ventures. It offers strategies for Brazilian...
Find out More >Legacy vs Disruptive Technologies for the Indian Army
CSDR's study for ARTRAC evaluates how new technologies affect warfare, analyzing recent conflicts and their impact on offense-defense dynamics. Recommendations...
Find out More >Advisory to Alternate Investment Fund
CSDR is guiding India's pioneering Defense and Aerospace Sector AIF, leveraging a dashboard that analyses and ranks over 250 Indian...
Find out More >Central Asian geopolitics
This project evaluates geopolitical dynamics in the Central Asian Republics, focusing on Russia's withdrawal and China's expanding influence. It explores...
Find out More >India-China Alternative Futures
This project analyzes the roots of India-China security rivalry before and after the 2020 border crisis, employing Alternative Futures methodology...
Find out More >The Chao Track
The Chao Track, evolving from the Chaophraya Dialogue post-2008 Mumbai attacks, is a Track II initiative fostering India-Pakistan dialogue on...
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