Kathmandu: Sushma Swaraj Institute of Foreign Service (SSIFS) organized the Special Course for Diplomats from Nepal in India on May 4. The event was inaugurated by the Dean of SSIFS, Raj Kumar Srivastava. 35 diplomats are participating in the 10 days program. In the inaugural session, Dean Srivastava talked about diplomacy and gave an overview of SSIFS.
He spoke about SSIFS’s competency (behavioural, functional & domain) based course content, India’s “Viksit Bharat” vision, diplomatic communications & writing skills, thematic categories of diplomacy & theories of international relations.
He talked about the continued relevance of Kautilyan philosophy, Guiding Principles of Indian Foreign Policy, Global South’s Human Centric Growth Model, core dimensions of its Resilience, Vaccine Maitri, Yoga, and Government of India’s initiatives (ISA, CDRI, IBCA, GBA).
