Strengthening Brics in Areas of Internal Security, Public Health, Disaster Management and the Role of Media

This book examines BRICS+ countries as a post-Cold War emerging response to the compelling consequences of unipolar order and the overbearing effects of non-military security issues such as internal security, public health security, disaster management and the role of media.

Venkat Ram Reddy Minampati Associate Professor of Governance and Public Administration at Pandit Deendayal Energy University. Research interests include Agriculture & water resource management, urban governance, and digital governance. Published articles on sustainable development, Internal security, transport governance, and Public Administration. Associated with the American Society for Public Administration, BRICS-Research Institute, and the Indian Institute for Public Administration.

Dylan Yanano Mangani Research Fellow at Nelson Mandela University with expertise in African nationalist politics, Russia’s African security policy, and BRICS. Published on political transitions, governance transformation, and post-liberation politics (2018-2024). Member of South African Association of Political Studies and BRICS Research Forum.

Pradeep Kumar Mallik Professor of Mass Communication and Head of Languages, Literature and Aesthetics at Pandit Deendayal Energy University. Research interests include development communication, digital literacy, and media ethics. Former Deputy Resident Editor at Ahmedabad Mirror with three decades of media experience. Published on democracy, social marketing, and literacy (2012-2018).

Jean Chrysostome K. Kiyala is a Senior Lecturer and researcher at the International Centre of Nonviolence based at the Durban University of Technology (DUT) in South Africa; Associate Professor and visiting lecturer at the University of Bandundu, The Evangelical University in Africa, the Catholic University of Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and visiting lecturer at the University of Seychelles. Chrys is the founder of the A Hipfunaneni [Let us help each other] Community Project that provides psychosocial assistance to Zimbabwean and Mozambican refugees in Limpopo Province (South Africa). His specialisations consist of restorative justice, post-conflict reconciliation and nation-building, civil society and peacebuilding, environmental studies, peace studies and governance.