The missing links: Explaining the absence of debate on transnational organized crime in India
A Talk by Dr Ajai Sahni , Mr Sandeep Unnithan , Prof Natalia Galistcheva , Dr Milan Vaishnav , Dr Vanda Felbab-Brown and Dr. Prem Mahadevan
About this Talk
The purpose of the Roundtable is to identify why there is no academic or thinktank discourse focused on organized crime in India, especially when the phenomenon of mafia-style criminality touches upon such issues as national security (ie., terrorism), economic performance, democratic politics and megacity policing. Organized crime should be a prime subject of research in Indian social sciences, yet it is ignored. The five distinguished experts listed above will talk about different facets of the subject, with each speaking on their own field of expertise. The audience might therefore get an all-rounded perspective of a very complicated and layered topic. The speakers will be encouraged to put questions to each other, in order to tease out as-yet-unexplored nuances of the topic under discussion.
About The Speakers
Institute for Conflict Management, Institute for Conflict Management
Founding Member & Executive Director of the Institute for Conflict Management
Senior Fellow and Firector of the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Senior Fellow in the Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings.