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Prof. P R Chari
Visiting Professor, IPCS
Email: prchari@gmail.com |
P.R. Chari is a former member of the Indian Administrative Service (1960 batch/Madhya Pradesh Cadre). He served in several senior positions in the Central and State Governments, and sought voluntary retirement in 1992 after 32 years in the Government. During the course of his official career he served two spells (1971-75 & 1985-88) in the Ministry of Defence. His last position there was Additional Secretary. He retired from the position of Vice-Chairman (Chief Executive) of the Narmada Valley Development Authority.
On the academic side he was Director, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses New Delhi (1975-80); International Fellow, Centre for International Affairs, Harvard University (1983-84); Visiting Fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1998); Research Professor, Centre for Policy Research (1992-96); Co-Director and Director of the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (I.P.C.S) New Delhi (1996-2003). Currently he is Research Professor in the I.P.C.S.
He has worked extensively on nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation and Indian security issues. He has published over 1400 op-ed articles in newspapers/web sites and over 130 monographs and major papers in learned journals/chapters in books abroad and in India.
He has lectured extensively and held seminars in India and abroad including the National Defence College and Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, Asia Society (New York), Brookings Institution, Henry L. Stimson Centre, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, US Institute of Peace, and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (all in Washington), CISAC (Stanford), Centre for Non-Proliferation Studies (Monterey), Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (Livermore), All Souls College (Oxford), International Institute for Strategic Studies (London), and Peace Research Institute (Bradford).
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Indian defence and security issues
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Books
# Indo-Pak Nuclear Stand off: Role of the United States (1995);
# Co-author, Brasstacks and Beyond: Perception and Management of Crisis (1995);
# Co-author and Co-editor, Nuclear Non-Proliferation in India and Pakistan: South Asian Perspectives (1996);
# Editor, India: Towards Millennium (1998);
# Editor, Perspectives on National Security in South Asia: In Search of a New Paradigm (1999);
# Co-editor, Kargil: The Tables Turned (2001);
# Co-author, The Simla Agreement, 1972 (2001);
# Editor, Security and Governance in South Asia (2001);
# Co-editor, Working towards a Verification Protocol for Biological Weapons(2001);
# Co-editor, Human Security in South Asia (2002);
# Co-author, Perceptions, Politics and Security in South Asia: The compound crisis of 1990 (2003);
# Indo-US Relations: Promoting Synergy (2003) [Report];
# Co-editor, Nuclear Stability in South Asia (2003);
# Co-editor, Biological Weapons: Issues and Threats (2003);
# Energy Security for India [Report] (2003);
# Co-editor, Missing Boundaries: Refugees, Migrants, Stateless and Internally Displaced Persons in South Asia (2003);
# Editor, Biodefence and Bioterrorism (2005);
# Editor, Alternative Approaches to Security: National Integration, Governance and Non-Military Challenges (2005);
# Co-author, Four Crises and a Peace Process: American Engagement in South Asia (2007);
# Co-author, Armed Conflicts in South Asia (2008).
# Editor, Indo-US Nuclear Deal: Seeking Synergy in Bilateralism (2009);
# Co-Author, The Kashmir Dispute: Making Borders Irrelevant (2009);
# Co-Author, Comparative Security Dynamics in Northeast Asia and South Asia : Asian Security Analysis (2010)
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