The Future of South Asian Security:
Prospects for a Nontraditional
Regional Security Architecture
An Alternative Framework for Cooperation
Focusing on three primary areas of nontraditional security challenges confronting South Asia
today—food and water security, environmental security and disaster management, and health and
human security—the project applied a futures methodology in a series of workshop discussions
aimed at creating and encouraging a space for project participants to engage in innovative
thinking exercises. The objective of these exercises was to break away from the traditional “silos” of