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Dr. Mallika Joseph
Currently Executive Director, RCSS
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Mallika Joseph was Director at Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies and works on various issues relating to South Asian security. She specializes on security sector reforms, human security, left extremism, small arms, landmines and small arms and improvised explosive devices. In 2007 and in 2006, she was part of the DFID high-level technical team that offered consultancy for broad based security sector engagement in Guyana. (Her area of consultation was police reforms, community policing and police public relations). She has co-authored three books, Small Arms and the Security Debate in South Asia, Anti-Personnel Landmines: A South Asian Regional Survey and Lethal Fields: Landmines and Improvised Explosive Devices in South Asia and was a regular contributor to the Landmine Monitor for the country sections on South Asian countries. She has also co-edited four books latest being Reintroducing Human Security in South Asia.  She has a PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University on international relations.

Areas of Interest:
Security Sector Reforms, Human Security, Left Extremism, and Interpol
Current Projects:
Security Sector Governance in South Asia (Project Coordinator and Author)
Publications

Books:  

# Co-editor (with Rajesh M. Basrur), Reintroducing the Human Security Debate In South Asia (New Delhi, Samskriti Publishers, 2007)
# Co-editor (with Maj Gen Dipankar Banerjee), Consolidating Peace in Jammu and Kashmir (New Delhi, Samskriti Publishers, 2007)
# Coauthor (with Rajesh M Basrur), “Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Terrorism Threats: A Case Study for India” LNCV Monograph (forthcoming, 2008)
# Chapter, “The Naxal Problem in India,” in Suba Chandran and PR Chari (ed) Armed Conflict in South Asia 2007 (New Delhi: Routledge, 2008) (forthcoming)
# Chapter, “From Human Security Deficit to Crisis: The Issue of Left Extremism and its Implications of India’s Internal Security,” in Goplaji Malviya (ed) Essential Components of National Security (Chennai: Centre for Security Analysis, 2007)
# Chapter, “Left Extremism in India: From Red Corridor to Red Land” in Suba Chandran (ed) Armed Conflict and Peace Process in South Asia 2006 (New Delhi, Samskriti Publishers, 2006)
# Chapter, “United Nations Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All its Aspects,” in India and the Call for Tougher International Arms Control (New Delhi: Oxfam, 2006)
# Chapter, “South Asia: Focus on India-Pakistan Relations” in Charles Morrison and Richard Baker (ed)  Asia Pacific Security Outlook 2005 ((Tokyo: Japan Centre for International Exchange, 2005)
# Chapter, “Small Arms and Light Weapons: Beyond the Program of Action” in Dipankar Banerjee (ed)  Rethinking Security: UN and the New Threats (New Delhi: India Research Press, 2005)
Co-author (With Salma Malik, Pakistan), Small Arms and the Security Debate in South Asia (New Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 2005)
# Chapter: “Beyond the POA: Small Arms and Light Weapons in South Asia” in Dipankar Banerjee (ed) Rethinking Security: UN and the New Threats (New Delhi: Samskriti Publishers, 2005)
# Co-editor (with PR Chari and Suba Chandran), Terrorism and its Repercussions in International Politics (New Delhi: IPCS, 2003)
# Co-editor (with PR Chari and Suba Chandran), Missing Boundaries: Refugees, Migrants, Stateless and Internally Displaced Persons in South Asia (New Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 2003)
# Chapter, “Counter-Terror Operations: Challenges to Security Forces” in Terrorism and Human Rights: Challenges and Responses (Chennai, Women’s Christian College, 2002)
# Co-authored with Suba Chandran, Lethal Fields: Landmines in South Asia (New Delhi: Sudha Printing Press, 2001).
# Co-authored with Maj Gen Dipankar Banerjee, Anti-Personnel Landmines: A South Asian Regional Survey (New Delhi: Sudha Printing Press, 1999)
# Contributed with Suba Chandran to Landmine Monitor Report 2000 (New York: International Campaign to Ban Landmines, 2000).
# Contributed with Maj Gen Dipankar Banerjee to Landmine Monitor Report 1999 (New York: International Campaign to Ban Landmines, 1999).
# Chapter, “Role of G-8 in the Kargil Crisis” in Kargil: Tables Turned (New Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 2001).

Recent IPCS Publications:

# “Arjun: India’s Main Battle Tank” IPCS Special Report 23, June 2006
# "Expanding Indian Navy: The Scorpene Deal” , 7 November 2005
# “The Srinagar-Muzaffarabad Bus Service: Is the Cart Pulling the Horse?” , 27 April 2005'
# “India-China Strategic Partnership: Implications for US and Pakistan” , 25 April 2005
# “Profiling Prabhakaran” (Review of book Inside an Elusive Mind by MR Narayan Swamy) , 2 October 2004
# “A gunfight for every netaji, a revolver for every naukri” in Indian Express on 11 September 2004
# “T-90S Bhishma” IPCS Issue Brief No 19, February 2004
# “Profiling T-90S Bhishma” , 27 February 2004
# “Counter-Terror Operations: Challenges to Security Forces” IPCS Research Paper 1 (New Delhi, IPCS, 2004)
# “The Attack on Chandrababu Naidu: Glaring Security Lapses” , 3 October 2003
# “Drug Abuse in Taliban Land” , 30 August 2003
# “Drug Cultivation in Taliban Land” , 30 August 2003
# “Combating Drugs in Taliban Land” , 30 August 2003
# “Use of mines in the Indo-Pak border: A loud political statement” , 3 July 2002
# “Nepal: An Overview” , 16 August 2002
# “Lashkar-e-Shivba: Do we really need it?” , 23 October 2000
# “RDX & IEDs: The Deadly Duet” , 20 October 2000 (co-authored)
# “Initiating IEDs in the small arms debate” , 20 October 2000
# “IEDs V: IEDs and landmine treaties” , 29 February 2000
# “IEDs IV: IEDs and Mines” , 29 February 2000
# “IEDs III: Types of IEDs and Training” , 29 February 2000
# “IEDs II: The Targets” , 27 February 2000
# “IEDs I: In the Terrorist Tool Kit” , 23 February 2000
# “Disguised blessing from Lahore” , 25 June 1999
# “Nepal Elections: Why not a hung parliament” , 15 June 1999
# “Need to review stand on landmines is stressed” in India Abroad, 2 April 1999
# “Paying for the Balance of Power” in The Indian Express, 18 March 1999
# “Indo-Pak power deal and Confidence Building” , 19 February 1999
# "Delhi round of Indo-Pak Talks: Tulbul Navigation Project” , 21 November 1998

 
 

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