Articles

EU-Central Asia Relations: An Emerging Partnership

Dr Pravesh Kumar Gupta, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

On November 5, European Union (EU) leaders met with prime minister-level Central Asian representatives in Bishkek for the inaugural EU-Central Asia Economic Forum. The delegation from the EU was led by Executive Vice-President and Trade Commissioner ....

November 29, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Central Asia , Article , Afghanistan , Uzbekistan , Taliban , European Union , Tajikistan , Green Recovery , Digitization , Civil Society , Energy Exports , Hydrocarbons , Business climate , Economic Forum

Vivekananda for Covid Times

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

The Covid crisis has spread gloom and despair. Despondency is natural. So many people have died. The bad news is pouring in from all sides. In many families, several members have passed away within a few days. The virus is spreading to rural populati....

May 24, 2021 Historical and Civilisational Studies , Commentary , Vivekananda , Covid , Civil Society , Sewa , Sikh culture

The Power of a Billion in Volunteering to Defeat COVID!

Dr Swati Mitra Commentary

The havoc wrecked by the pandemic has led to many theories, committees, criticisms, and calculations by luminaries across sectors on the handling of the COVID surge in India and the gaping hole in India’s public health system. This culminated in th....

May 20, 2021 Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , Covid , Socio-cultural , Civil Society , Public Private Partnership , Seva

Detailed Report of the Seminar on Countering Online Radicalization and Recruitment

1. A joint workshop organized by the VIF in collaboration with the University of Maryland, US Embassy New Delhi and Facebook was organized from 17 to 18 November 2015 at the VIF premises. A number of eminent international experts and scholars besides....

December 30, 2015 Conference , National Security and Strategic Studies , Conferences , World war , radicalization , ISIS , Radical Islam , ISIL , Social Media , Recruitment to Violence , Civil Society , Daesh modus

Workshop on 'Public-Private Partnership in Countering Online Radicalization and Recruitment to Violence'

Vivekananda International Foundation in collaboration with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) of the University of Maryland, US Embassy and Facebook organised on November 17-18, 2015, a two-day works....

November 27, 2015 Conference , National Security and Strategic Studies , Conferences , World war , radicalization , ISIS , ISIL , Social Media , Recruitment to Violence , Civil Society