The International Student/Young Pugwash (ISYP) South Asia Programme is a youth initiative that aims to encourage cross-national dialogue among students and young professionals working to address the increasingly complex nuclear landscape in South Asia.
ISYP South Asia Programme Selected as a Finalist for the 2025 PACEY Award!
The ISYP South Asia Programme has been selected as a finalist for the prestigious 2025 Peace, Nuclear Abolition, and Climate Engaged Youth (PACEY) Award. This recognition underscores the importance of providing a platform for students and young professionals from South Asia to share regional perspectives on nuclear risks, promote dialogue and cooperation, and identify pathways to nuclear disarmament and peace-building.
Read more about the Award Ceremony here.
If you have any questions about ISYP’s South Asia Programme or would like to volunteer to support our initiatives, please contact us at office@isyp.org.
The ISYP South Asia Team:
Sanaa Alvira
Laura Rose O’Connor
Tanvi Kulkarni
Past Events
See below past South Asia-focused events:
Event Report: ISYP South Asia Cyber-Nuclear Roundtable, in partnership with IPCS, CSSPR and NIICE
On February 24th, 2023, International Student/Young Pugwash convened a two-hour virtual roundtable among early- and mid-career professionals on the nexus between cybersecurity and nuclear weapons issues in South Asia. The program was hosted in partnership with the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS), New Delhi, the Centre for Security, Strategy and Policy Research (CSSPR)…
Event: ISYP South Asia Roundtable, in partnership with IPCS and CSSPR
On August 30th, 2022, International Student/Young Pugwash convened a two-hour virtual roundtable among early- and mid-career professionals on nuclear weapons issues in South Asia. The program was hosted in partnership with the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS), New Delhi and the Centre for Security, Strategy and Policy Research (CSSPR) at the University of…
South Asia Advisor, Tanvi Kulkarni
We are thrilled to share that Tanvi Kulkarni is our South Asia Advisor. Please find below details on Tanvi’s background:
Tanvi Kulkarni is a Policy Fellow at APLN. She has a PhD in Diplomacy and Disarmament studies from the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. Her PhD thesis examines why states in a nuclear dyad negotiate nuclear confidence-building measures (NCBMs). She has a postgraduate Masters degree in defence and strategic studies and an undergraduate degree in political science. Tanvi is also a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi and visiting lecturer at the Department of Defence and Strategic Studies at the Savitribai Phule Pune University. She is a contributing author at the Washington-DC based Stimson Center’s South Asian Voices. Tanvi has previously worked with the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies and the India-Pakistan Chaophraya Track II Dialogue in New Delhi and was awarded a research fellowship supported by the Stimson Center in 2015.