The mission of ISAS within the broad academic and institutional mandate and mission of the SAU can be described briefly as generating knowledge and augmenting capacity to facilitate the common quest of South Asian countries for sustainable futures and common security.
The ISAS will adopt the following strategies to accomplish its mission.
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Initiate innovative, problem-focused, future-oriented, and policy-relevant thinking, learning, and research that addresses shared concerns and challenges facing the South Asian states, societies, and economies under the overall guidance of the distinguished Research Board of ISAS.
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Support the scholarly efforts, curricular and co-curricular activities of the teaching faculty, research scholars and the student community through special courses and training capsules on focused issues of contemporary and policy relevance, special lectures, exhibitions, film series, colloquia, reading groups, library orientations, literature/cultural festivals, an Annual Conference on South Asia on a specific subject/theme, and other events that enhance the academic-intellectual offerings on South Asia at the University.
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Achieve global recognition as a competent and rigorous think tank of the South Asian University that reflects on shared challenges from a regional perspective; produces state-of-the-art, policy-oriented research; seeks innovative approaches to address such problems; builds knowledge partnerships with the leading research centres and think tanks focused on South Asia; and adopts best practices in collaborative knowledge production, research dissemination, outreach and capacity building.
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Serve the pursuit of the knowledge economy and knowledge society by South Asian nations, civil society organizations, and policymakers by offering skill development, capacity building and training programmes for teachers and administrators, ably assisted by an authoritative repository, regional resource centre, and technology-driven archive of the future focused on the region and SAARC