Indian Ocean Rising: Maritime Security Challenges Out to 2030
| Date | October 26, 2011 |
| Time | 8:30 am - 5:30 pm |
| Location | The Stimson Center |
The Stimson Center and National Intelligence Council are co-conducting a one-day workshop focused on the future of maritime policy, security, and governance challenges in the Indian Ocean. This workshop will take place on Wednesday, October 26, 2011, at the Stimson Center in Washington, DC.
The Indian Ocean represents an increasingly significant avenue for global trade and arena for global security. Rising prosperity in Asia, growing dependence on natural resource flows linking producers and consumers across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, and globalized supply chains and distribution networks are knitting the region ever more closely together by sea. At the same time, emerging problems ranging from piracy and territorial disputes in the regional seas to global environmental pressures on marine resources and coastal infrastructure pose significant governance challenges for policy makers around the Indian Ocean region.
This workshop will gather senior officials from the US Government and the intelligence community, joined by business leaders, energy and shipping industry experts, academic analysts, scientists, and representatives of the US armed services and other militaries operating in the region. Together, we will consider the emerging security, socio-economic, commercial, and environmental trends affecting the region out to 2030 and examine their implications for decision makers and stakeholders. Subjects for discussion - to be outlined in a series of preparatory background notes - will include:
- The evolving roles of navies in the Indian Ocean (US, UK, China, India)
- Trends in maritime commerce, infrastructure, and the shipping industry
- Developments in criminal activities, including piracy, hijacking, and trafficking
- Energy resources (offshore oil and gas), exploration, exploitation, infrastructure and transport
- Non-energy resources: fisheries, aquaculture, sea-bed mining, and tourism
- UNCLOS, the IMO, maritime institutions and diplomacy for resolving disputes
- Environmental pressures on coastal and marine resources, habitats, settlements, and infrastructure.
This event is closed to the public.