Mitigating Sea Blindness in Maritime Domain Through Multilateral Efforts; “Land Divides While the Sea Units”.
Mitigating Maritime Blindness The right of vessel to travel freely in international waters engage in innocent transit passage and have access to ports is an essential elements of international security while safeguarding interests of other nations. Despite many advances made in maritime surveillance and intelligence gathering, the oceans are still exploited for a plethora of illegal activities both by state and non state actors many gaps and ungoverned space remain in the global commons. Managing maritime security is a challenges endeavor. However cooperation and collaboration among global stakeholders could provide solutions to such challenges by sharing information and thereby creating real time picture. For that, it requires a region centric collaborative maritime security construct. Addressing these challenges, like piracy, smuggling, illegal fishing and transnational terrorism demands timely and accurate and actionable information along with forces available to resp...
