Maj. Gen. Dipankar Banerjee, director of the Institute of Peace & Conflict Studies (IPCS), contextualised the conference as an "effort to reassess ways and means of ensuring strategic stability, given the strategic development in South Asia and global developments." This exercise also takes cognisance of China's role - direct and indirect - in Pakistan's nuclear and missile programme and hence the "strategic footprints" it has left in the region. The conference also reinforces the commitment of IPCS and MIT "to promote strategic stability in the region."

The two-day conference discussed wide-ranging topics such as lessons from the US-USSR strategic stand-off; military programme in space and their implications, missiles and missile defence in Asia, with specific focus on Chinese missile capability and its impact on South Asian Security till 2020, assessment of Pakistan's missile capability and Indian missile capabilities till 2020; status of the US missile defence programme and technical challenges/capabilities and limitations of missile defence systems; and, missile launch surveillance in South Asia: Criteria for system design, improving global stability through multilateral agreement.

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