We work through research, advocacy and capacity building which is informed and reinforced by on-ground outreach. Our initiatives and projects provide an opportunity to enhance people-to-people and institutional contacts between India and her immediate and extended neighbors by forging a network of “Third Space” entities and organizations working on similar objectives. As a crucial enabler for cooperation and integration discourses in the region, we actively promote a better understanding of the cultural, ecological and socio-political issues of the North East Indian region that inform India’s “Act East Policy”.

We work across a matrix of Eight Initiatives: ASCON Online , Centre for Bay of Bengal Studies , Third Space , Track 1.5 & Track 2 , NADI , Young Scholars Network , Kizuna , Bamboo Grove

and Six Themes: Connectivity & Trade , Capacity Building , People, Culture and Tourism , Climate, Ecology and Sustainable Development , Neighbourhood , Politics and Governance