National Maritime Foundation (NMF) is a partner of the Institute. The NMF was established in 2005 as the Indian nation’s first maritime think-tank for the conduct of independent and policy-relevant research on all ‘matters maritime’.  It was designed to create and heighten maritime awareness amongst India’s policy-makers, intellectual echelons, and civil society at large. 

NMF concentrates solely on India’s maritime domain.  In addition to this,  the research faculty examines and analyses the entire gamut of issues relevant to India’s holistic maritime security, seeking to provide India with freedom from manmade- and natural threats, as well as those that result from a combination of these — any or all of which could arise in-, from-, or through- the sea.

Thus, in addition to military maritime security, their research also addresses a wide range of important economic-, socio-economic-, socio-cultural-, scientific-, legal-, and historical issues, all of which are critical to ‘maritime India’.  These include, amongst others, fleshing-out the vision of SAGAR (Security and Growth for All in the Region), providing specificity to the ‘Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative’ (IPOI), developing policy-relevant approaches to polar regions, pushing India’s efforts to improve maritime connectivity through a variety of bilateral, trilateral, mini-lateral and multilateral maritime constructs, and, supporting a national and regional transition to a Blue Economy.  Other areas of sharp and sustained focus at the NMF include the maritime impacts of climate change and the several nuances of public international maritime law.

To learn more about NMF, feel free to check this link: https://maritimeindia.org