Director Pandey spoke at the joint NESA-Hoover workshop on 'Challenge of Governing Over Diversity in an Age of Transparency' held at the Stanford University, Palo Alto on April 28-May 1, 2014. Former Secretary of State George Shultz and former Secretary of Defense William Perry were the main speakers.
CSAS organized a talk program on 'EU-SAARC Relations: Towards Deeper Partnership' in Kathmandu on Jan. 8, 2014. EU envoy to Nepal Amb. Rensje Teerink, Gen. Dipankar Banerjee, Mentor of IPCS, Delhi, Ramesh Nath Pandey, former foreign minister, Ibrahim Zuhuree, Director, SAARC Secretariat, Saloni Singh, chairperson of Didi Bahini and Dr. Nishchal N. Pandey spoke on the occasion.
CSAS Director Dr. Nishchal N. Pandey was interviewed in various international media on Nepal's second constituent assembly elections. Click the web-links (below).
Financial Times, London
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/674528d6-5cb8-11e3-81bd-00144feabdc0,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F674528d6-5cb8-11e3-81bd-00144feabdc0.html%3Fsiteedition%3Dintl&siteedition=intl&_i_referer=#axzz2oSdujpWW
The Times of India
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-11-18/interviews/44201045_1_nepali-congress-boycott-calls-maoists
The Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304017204579225733028482954
The Indian Express
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/the-constitution-project/1199578/
Voice of America
http://www.voanews.com/content/nepal-goest-to-polls-to-end-political-deadlock/1791864.html
Director Dr. Nishchal N. Pandey was visiting fellow at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), a leading German think-tank in Berlin for Sep.-Oct., 2013. He also spoke at several seminars at South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University on ‘South Asia & Europe: Interaction on Regional Integration’ and at the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, head office in Berlin on ‘Political Developments & Regional Cooperation in South Asia’. He was also a member of the KAS-COSATT delegation to Brussels where he spoke on ‘Sustainable Use of Natural Resources in South Asia’ organized by KAS-Brussels & South Asia Democratic Forum.
CSAS in partnership with the KAS organized the Adenauer Forum on "Sub-regional cooperation and Trade Facilitation between Nepal-India-Bangladesh" on July 9, 2013 in Kathmandu. Prof. Nisha Taneja, Fellow at ICREAR, Delhi, Gen. ANM Muniruzzaman, President of BIPSS, Dhaka and former commerce secretary of Nepal government Purushottam Ojha spoke on the occasion.
Director Dr. Nishchal N. Pandey participated in the International Security Forum in Geneva on April 21-26, 2013. He also participated in the annual network director's meeting convened by the NESA Center of the National Defence University of the United States held in Geneva.
The book is co-edited by Nishchal N. Pandey and Tomislav Delinic.
An international conference on "BIMST-EC: What is achieved and Where to go?" was organized in Kolkata on March 12-13, 2013 by the Centre for Studies in International Relations and Development (CSIRD) and Institute of Foreign Policy Studies (IFPS). Director of CSAS Dr. Nishchal N. Pandey gave a presentation at the conference. Delegates from all BIMST-EC member states had participated in the two-day event.