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By and large, the academic community has done a poor job of providing guidance to policymakers on international peace and security issues. Many scholars are simply uninterested in developing policy recommendations to deal with important real-world problems. Indeed, ?policy studies? are seen as illegitimate undertakings in many social science departments.
At the same time, many policymakers focus almost exclusively on short-term issues. They do not spend enough time anticipating long-term threats and devising ways to prevent potential problems from becoming actual threats. They consequently fail to develop effective long-term strategies for enhancing national and international security. As a result, there is a large and growing gap between the academic and policy communities with respect to peace and security problems. This is not a conducive environment for sustainable peace and stability.
BIPSS seeks to bridge the gap between the academic and policy worlds, thereby generating better conceptual frameworks that in turn will lead to the development of practical strategies and policies for enhancing international peace and security.
The institute is headed by the President of BIPSS, Major General Muniruzzaman. He directs and coordinates all research and administrative activities of the Institute. The research activities of the Institute are supported by the Research Faculty consisting of a team of full-time researchers with varied social sciences background.
To contribute, through its academic program, to the process of building a community of South Asia knowledgeable on issues of traditional and non-traditional/human security and transnational security, with a common appreciation of the threats to security in South Asia and to enhance their effective participation in various policy/governance processes.
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