South Asia Nuclear Dialogue Network (SANDNet) – Archives (2000-2003)

The South Asia Nuclear Dialogue Network (SANDNet) aims to bring together officials, NGO representatives, scholars, and others working to advance peace and security in South Asia. SANDNet weekly email and web updates provide news summaries, analysis, and discussion mainly from the South Asian press. SANDNet also serves as a repository for security-related government documents, substantial policy statements, and links to other high-quality web pages that focus on regional nuclear and security issues. In addition, SANDNet will commission scholarly analyses intended for both specialists and generalists.

The network facilitates communication and coordination beyond the Internet, including collaborative research, distribution of results and analysis, and policy-oriented meetings among SANDNet participants. SANDNet seeks to enhance the speed, clarity, perspicacity, and credibility of communication within this “virtual community.”

When fully implemented, the network will provide the following services:

  • An informational report distributed on a weekly or more frequent basis via listserve email delivery and web site posting. The report, inaugurated in January 2000, contains summaries of nuclear- and security-related news items, as well as headlines and web links to news and analysis from throughout the South Asia region. Material for the report will include contributions from network “* participant nodes” (see below).
  • An online “policy forum” will enable network participants to share analyses, opinions, and ideas. The forum will be moderated to ensure that the quality, breadth, and tolerance of the debate continues to serve the diverse community we seek to foster. Discussion forums will be available in print form.
  • An online repository for important documents, agreements, texts, and other background information, updated regularly and available via the Internet.
  • Training and instruction for network partners, including short-term fellowships at the Nautilus Institute and workshops convened in South Asia.

The substantive criteria of the South Asia Peace and Security Network include the following:

  • Focus on nuclear issues. Over time, attention to nuclear issues will be used to anchor the examination of such related issue areas as broadly-defined security and political concerns; economic development; energy production and use; environment, land, and resource issues; and democratic processes.
  • Regional breadth. Nuclear and security issues throughout South Asia extend beyond Pakistan and India to all states in the region. Intra-regional cooperation and conflict are an integral aspect of SANDNet focal concerns. Over time content will include regional representation from across South Asia.
  • Inter-regional breadth. SANDNet content will also address how nuclear weapons issues in South Asia both affect and are affected by developments in China, the Korean peninsula, and elsewhere in Asia. Over time content will include pertinent materials from China, Japan, Korea, and elsewhere in Asia.
  • Communication, research, policy development, and publication. By enhancing the access to and timeliness of communication among participants, SANDNet aims to facilitate collaborative research among its members. This collaborative engagement with the problems intrinsic to nuclear issues in South Asia aims to yield politically sensitive and meaningful ways to address these problems. SANDNet will disseminate the results of this work to the network community, governmental policy-makers, and wider public audiences.
  • Emphasis on reliability, credibility, and representation. SANDNet will strive to create an environment in which information, analysis, and opinion disseminated through the network reflect the diversity of viewpoints that exist across national boundaries and political spectrums. In particular, network participants are urged to open the network to “alternative” points of view that might be underrepresented in more conventional media. The principle guiding network inclusion will be tolerance of this diversity and respectful engagement with diverging points of view. SANDNet will strive to be a credible source of informed, high-quality dialogue and collaboration.
  • Electronic communications assistance. An important subsidiary goal of the network will be to enable participants to take greater advantage of Internet and world wide web opportunities as they pursue their agendas more effectively.
  • Virtual community. SANDNet will foster the development of a genuine community that will evolve beyond SANDNet activities in and of themselves. Many network features and activities–such as the establishment of partnership “nodes” and collaborative research programs–will encourage the growth of new group-to-group and person-to-person relationships, thus enhancing regional and sub-regional cooperation that reaches beyond the network itself.
  • Participant nodes. Initially, SANDNet production and coordination activities will be centered in the Nautilus Institute. Over time, the network will evolve into a truly collaborative enterprise. The Nautilus Institute hopes and expects that SANDNet will embrace the specialized knowledge and resources of organizations and individuals throughout the world.

If you have further questions, please contact the SANDNet Coordinator via email: <SANDNet@nautilus.org>


The South Asia Nuclear Dialogue aims to serve as a forum for dialogue and exchange among South Asia security specialists.

We welcome your commentary, suggestions, government documents, or original research for distribution to the network.

Produced by the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development in partnership with the Monash Asia Institute.

Robert Brown, SANDNet Coordinator: SANDNet@nautilus.org
Berkeley, California, United States

Wade L. Huntley, Security Program Director: SANDNet@nautilus.org
Berkeley, California, United States

 

SANDNet

SANDNet Weekly Update, November 28, 2000

CONTENTS November 28, 2000 Nuclear Issues 1. Pakistani Nuclear Export Policy 2. Pakistani Nuclear Program 3. Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty 4. India-Russia Nuclear Cooperation 5. India Nuclear Policy India 1. Overview 2. India-PRC Relations 3. India-PRC Border Dispute 4. US Sanctions Waiver for the PRC 5. US-India Relations Pakistan 1. US Sanctions Under MCTR 2. […]

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SANDNet Weekly Update, November 21, 2000

CONTENTS November 21, 2000 Nuclear Issues 1. UK-India Nuclear Diplomacy 2. Pakistan Nuclear Policy India 1. Overview 2. Afghanistan 3. India-PRC Relations 4. Foreign Relations: US, Japan Pakistan 1. Military Government 2. Military 3. Defense Exhibition 4. Afghani Refugees Kashmir 1. Organization of Islamic Conference 2. Militant Groups 3. Lone Wedding 4. Indian Government Ceasefire […]

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SANDNet Weekly Update, November 14, 2000

CONTENTS November 14, 2000 Nuclear Issues 1. Indian Anti-Nuclear Convention 2. India Nuclear Policy 3. Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty India 1. India-PRC Border Talks 2. India-PRC Economic Relations 3. Southeast Asia 4. India-Turkey Security Ties 5. French Submarine Visit 6. Indian Military Pakistan 1. Pakistan Military 2. Afghanistan Kashmir 1. Military Operations 2. Organization of […]

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SANDNet Weekly Update, November 9, 2000

CONTENTS November 9, 2000 Nuclear Issues 1. Pakistan Nuclear Program 2. Pakistan Nuclear Energy 3. Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty 4. UN First Committee India 1. India Military 2. India Security Policy 3. India-PRC-Russia Axis 4. India-US Relations Pakistan 1. Pakistan Military 2. Terrorism in Pakistan 3. US Role in South Asia Kashmir 1. Overview 2. […]

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SANDNet Weekly Update, November 1, 2000

CONTENTS November 1, 2000 Nuclear Issues 1. India Nuclear Weapons 2. India Nuclear Policy India 1. Indian Military 2. Indian Military in Jammu and Kashmir 3. India-Occupied Kashmir 4. India-PRC Border Issues 5. India-PRC Relations 6. India-Bangladesh Relations 7. Foreign Relations: Japan, Israel, Russia Pakistan 1. Military Government 2. Pakistani Air Space Kashmir 1. Militant […]

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SANDNet Weekly Update, October 25, 2000

CONTENTS October 25, 2000 Nuclear Issues 1. South Asian Nuclear Conditions 2. India Nuclear Policy India 1. Indian Military Cohesiveness 2. Indian Security Policy 3. India-PRC Relations 4. Foreign Relations: Russia, Bangladesh Pakistan 1. United Nations Security Council 2. Pakistan Military Kashmir 1. Pakistani Military Activities 2. India-Pakistan Talks 3. Jammu and Kashmir 4. US […]

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SANDNet Weekly Update, October 17, 2000

CONTENTS October 17, 2000 Nuclear Weapons 1. India Nuclear Policy 2. Indian Nuclear Energy Program 3. Pakistan Nuclear Policy India 1. Russian President Visit: Commentary 2. Security Policy 3. Military Issues 4. Foreign Relations: PRC, ASEAN Pakistan 1. Military Government Kashmir 1. Militant Groups 2. India-Pakistan Relationship 3. Jammu and Kashmir 4. Recent Violence 5. […]

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SANDNet Weekly Update, October 11, 2000

CONTENTS October 11, 2000 Nuclear Issues 1. India-Russia Nuclear Deals 2. India Nuclear Policy 3. India Nuclear Strategy India 1. Russian President Visit 2. Military Policy 3. PRC Security Threat 4. Flood Pakistan 1. Military Government 2. India-Russia Relations 3. Japanese Humanitarian Aid 4. Afghanistan Kashmir 1. Overview 2. Russian Diplomacy 3. Pakistan Military Actions […]

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SANDNet Weekly Update, October 6, 2000

CONTENTS October 6, 2000 Nuclear Issues 1. India-Russia Nuclear Cooperation 2. India Nuclear Policy India 1. India-Russia Relations 2. India-PRC Relations 3. India-US Relations 4. Military hardware 5. Indian Defense Relations: South Africa, Israel 6. German Aid Resumed 7. Flood 8. United Nations Pakistan 1. Pakistan Nuclear Policy 2. US Terrorism List 3. Russian Relations […]

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SANDNet Weekly Update, September 27, 2000

CONTENTS September 27, 2000 Nuclear Issues 1. India Nuclear Policy 2. Pakistan Nuclear Policy India 1. Naval Good-will Visits: PRC, Japan 2. India-US Relations 3. Israeli Security Team 4. India-Iraq Trade Relations 5. India-Russian Relations 6. Military Hardware Pakistan 1. Pakistan-US Relations 2. Missile Development 3. Pakistan-Russia Relations 4. Separatist Movements Kashmir 1. EU Mission […]

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