Dr Ramanand Garge Campus Director at the Rashtriya Raksha University, Shivamogga is a scholar of security studies with distinguished experience from research, academia as well as diplomacy. Dr. Ramanand and has published several articles in International and national journals in the field of national security and analysed various critical areas of security governance such as maritime security, terrorism financing left wing extremism etc., he has actively contributed his expertise as subject expert on television discussions on Loksabha, Rajya Sabha TV and All India Radio. He was also an Associate Fellow at the Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi. He established the India centre at the Consulate General of India, Sydney. For his constructive contribution in India Australia relations, he was bestowed with a tittle as “Fellow” of the Australian Institute of Music, Sydney. He was an Associate Fellow at the VIF from February 2015 - August 2019.

Contributions 
Legal Reform in Criminal Justice System of India – a Much Awaited Overhaul for Time Bound Justice January 26, the largest democracy of the world celebrates its 75th Republic Day. As in 2022, India celebrated its 75th year of Independence where it carved out a rightful place for itself in 1947 and since then India has emerged as a prominent entity...

Strasbourg Terror Attack – Revisiting ISIS Footprints in Europe The picturesque city of Strasbourg witnessed a shocking terror attack on December 11, 2018, in which a gunman opened fire around the famous Christmas market, killing at least three people and wounding 12 others. The Strasbourg Christmas markets is on...

Amritsar Grenade Attack – Stoking ‘Khalistan’ Disturbance? The holy city of Amritsar was shaken by a grenade attack by two masked men who brandished pistols and forced their way into a weekly congregation of the Nirankari Sect and lobbed grenades into the prayer hall of the Nirankari Bhavan of Adliwal villag...

Strategic Policy Group - Evolution of Integrated National Security Structure In a significant decision that could have major implications for India’s over all approach to national security, the Government of India, through a notification (October 8, 2018), announced reconstitution of the Strategic Policy Group (SPG) of the ...

Australia Defines Priorities of National Security Science and Technology Policy - Relevance for India The Government of Australia, on May 1, 2018 (Australian Government 2018), released a document called ‘National Security Science and Technology Policy Agenda’. Through this, the Government of Australia has set the agenda to prioritise science and ...

Monographs/Compendiums 
Jurisprudence of Anti-Terrorism Laws- An Indian Perspective Counter-terrorism practices cannot be effective in the absence of firm and clear anti-terrorism law. In the last several decades, India has developed wide-ranging counter-terrorism practices and mechanism. Yet, it has neither a comprehensive anti-ter...

VIF Papers 
Security and Development: An Appraisal of the Red Corridor … Left Wing Extremism is recognised as one of the most serious threats, not only to India’s internal security but indeed to the very basic values of the democratic, pluralistic political order enshrined in our Constitution. Apart from heavy casua...

Combating Financing of Terror: An Indian Perspective Introduction The Indian state possesses a unique characteristic of a mix of peace and conflict trajectories that greatly impact its policy and execution. This is true also of its policies on and responses to the most potent threat it faces...

VIF Briefs 
Internal Security Budget 2019-20: Ad-hocism to Systematic Coherence ... ensuring peace, safety and security of its people and properties and upholding the rule of law is one of the most important responsibilities of the state ... this makes internal security a complex phenomenon in India’s comprehensive national se...

Rise of Jaish-e-Mohammed in Kashmir Valley - an Internal Security Perspective Introduction On January 2, 2016, a group of four to six well trained Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists launched an audacious attack on the Pathankot Air Base in Punjab. In an operation that continued over the next four days, all t...

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...

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