B.A.P-I Journal of Internal Security & Strategic Sectorial Resilience

B.A.P-I JOURNAL OF
Internal Security & Strategic Sectorial Resilience

The B.A.P-I Journal of Internal Security & Strategic Sectorial Resilience (JISSR) is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal of the Bharat Assets Protection Institute™ (B.A.P-I), published by Bharat Assets Publication. It is dedicated to the internal security of Bharat and to the resilience of the strategic sectors the nation cannot afford to lose.

Threats to national stability now arrive through many doors at once: terrorism and radicalisation, hybrid and cyber attacks, disasters and climate extremes, industrial accidents, organised crime and failures of governance. JISSR studies how institutions, laws, technologies and communities can anticipate, absorb and recover from these threats, and how resilience can be measured, regulated and built into every critical sector. It brings security professionals, disaster managers, legal and governance experts, technologists and scholars onto one platform.

Key focus areas include:

National critical infrastructure protection systems and legal frameworks
Hybrid threats, counter-terrorism and counter-radicalisation
Cybersecurity infrastructure, forensic analytics and digital sovereignty
Secure communication, surveillance and border management
Civil defence, infrastructure redundancy and continuity of government and services
Disaster risk reduction, early warning, climate adaptation and fire safety
Industrial disaster prevention, chemical safety and occupational security
Event resilience, crowd management and the private security industry
Governance, compliance, ESG and social security as foundations of resilience
Measuring sectoral resilience, including the Bharat National Resilience Index (BNRI)

JISSR welcomes original research, policy and legal analysis, operational case studies and practitioner perspectives that strengthen the security and resilience of the nation.

B.A.P-I Journal of Internal Security & Strategic Sectorial Resilience

JISSR is the B.A.P-I journal for internal security, disaster resilience and the governance of strategic sectors. It publishes peer-reviewed work that helps the state, industry and society protect what matters most and recover quickly when it is struck.Aims and scopeThe journal treats security and...

Aims and scope

The journal treats security and resilience as one continuum, from prevention and deterrence through preparedness and response to recovery and reform. It covers the threats, the institutions that counter them, the technologies they use, the laws and standards that govern them and the communities they serve, with a particular focus on the protection and continuity of critical sectors and on frameworks such as a Critical Infrastructure Protection Act for Bharat.

Research Focus clusters covered

Internal Security Management Specifics: internal security technologies, industrial safety, forensics, event and crowd resilience, private security, national CIP systems, hybrid threats, civil defence, secure communication and surveillance, cybersecurity and forensic analytics, border management and counter-terrorism.
Disaster Dynamics & Eco-Protection Specifics: disaster dynamics and eco-protection, fire risk and disaster management, climate adaptation, rural and tribal resilience, early warning networks, industrial and chemical safety and mountain hazard risk.
Corporate Governance & Social Security Linkages Specifics: legal and conformance management, TRIPS and IP governance, tax and subsidies, corporate governance, CSR, green compliance, digital social security, MSME financial governance, SDGs and ESG, fiscal digitalisation and labour and gig-economy protection.
Digital Revolution & Critical Automation Specifics: cyberspace infrastructure and digital sovereignty, digital public infrastructure, and AI safety, ethics and governance.

Four lenses on every question

Theoretical: security studies, risk and resilience theory, governance and the legal foundations of protection.
Applied: technology and analytics for detection, surveillance, forensics, early warning and response.
Practical: lessons from police, paramilitary, disaster response, fire and emergency services, industry safety teams and regulators.
Futuristic: AI-enabled threats and defences, climate-driven hazards, cognitive and hybrid warfare, and the security architecture Bharat will need by 2047.

What the journal publishes

Original research articles
Review and state-of-the-art articles
Policy analyses and policy briefs
Technical notes, frameworks and standards papers
Case studies from government, industry and the field
Industry perspectives and practitioner insights
Commentaries, book reviews and conference outputs

Who the journal serves

Security and law enforcement professionals, disaster management authorities, critical infrastructure operators, corporate security and compliance leaders, legal and governance experts, policy makers, researchers and students of security, disaster and public policy studies, and international partners in counter-terrorism and resilience.

Editorial standards

Every manuscript submitted to JISSR is screened by the editorial desk and assessed through double-blind peer review by its Editorial Board and Peer Review Panel. The journal follows the publication ethics, originality, disclosure and citation norms of Bharat Assets Publication. Articles are published online under the B.A.P-I imprint, with full citation details for scholarly and professional reference.

Submit to the journal

Researchers, academics, industry professionals, policy practitioners and doctoral scholars in India and abroad are invited to submit. Read the guidance on Write With Us, or write to the editorial desk at info@bharatassetsprotection.org or bharatassetsprotection@gmail.com. Experts interested in reviewing or serving on the board can join the editorial team.

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What this journal publishes

Sectors may intersect, but lenses may not. Every manuscript is routed by the question it asks, not by the sector it mentions.

The question this journal asksWhat threatens this system, and how is it protected, governed and kept running?

Lens

Protect, secure and govern risk: threats, continuity, resilience governance, policing, cyber and hybrid threats, disaster risk

Typical article types

Threat assessments, legal and governance analyses, continuity and preparedness studies, policing and disaster response case studies, resilience measurement papers

Primary readers

Security and law enforcement professionals, disaster management authorities, compliance and risk officers, legislators and regulators, CI operators

The B.A.P-I Journal of Internal Security & Strategic Sectorial Resilience (JISSR) holds the protect, secure and govern-risk lens. Its governing question is what threatens a system, an institution or a community, and how it is protected, secured, governed and kept running through attack, accident, disaster and disruption. The journal treats security and resilience as one continuum, running from prevention and deterrence through preparedness and response to recovery and reform, and it applies that continuum to every strategic sector the nation cannot afford to lose.

The journal owns threats in all their forms: terrorism and radicalisation, organised crime, hybrid and cyber attack, insider risk, information disorder, and the natural and climate hazards that strike infrastructure and communities. It owns the institutions and instruments that counter them: policing, intelligence coordination, border management, civil defence, forensics, private security, disaster management authorities and emergency services. It owns resilience governance: the laws, standards, compliance regimes, corporate governance, ESG obligations and social protection systems through which risk is governed in peacetime, and the measurement of sectoral resilience through the Bharat National Resilience Index.

JISSR reads the Disaster Management Act, 2005, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, and the mandates of CERT-In and NCIIPC as working instruments, and asks how they can be calibrated so that the protection of critical sectors is systematic rather than episodic. It is also the natural home of the Institute's doctrinal work on a Critical Infrastructure Protection Act for Bharat, on State Resilience Cells and on a National Resilience Report.

Topics under the six focus areas

National critical infrastructure protection systems, sector designation and the case for a Critical Infrastructure Protection Act.
Business continuity and continuity of government for ministries, courts and administrative services.
Civil defence and infrastructure redundancy planning for essential services.
Fire risk, fire protection governance and the fire safety of high-occupancy and industrial facilities.
Dam safety, flood control and the governance of reservoir risk.
Emergency services and first responder systems: capacity, coordination and command.
Resilience of banking, commerce and financial services against systemic shocks.
Disaster-resilient infrastructure governance, early warning networks and risk-informed planning.
Rural and tribal resilience infrastructure and the protection of remote communities.

Industrial safety standards, occupational security and the protection of workers.
Protective security of defence production units and sensitive industrial establishments.
Insider threat, industrial espionage and the protection of trade secrets.
Compliance management, legal conformance and audit in manufacturing enterprises.
Corporate governance and board-level oversight of operational risk.
Labour welfare, social protection and gig economy governance in industry.
MSME financial governance and the resilience of small enterprises to shocks.
Environmental stewardship and green compliance obligations of industrial units.

Security of logistics nodes, warehouses and transport corridors against theft, sabotage and attack.
Disaster-resilient supply chains for relief, essential commodities and medical stores.
Event resilience and crowd management for mass gatherings, festivals and pilgrimages.
Fiscal digitalisation, compliance monitoring and the detection of illicit trade.
Counterfeit goods and the integrity of supply chains for medicines and critical parts.
Customs, border trade and the prevention of smuggling across land frontiers.
Supply chain continuity planning in the governance of critical sectors.
Tax, tariff and subsidy leakage as a governance risk.

Cybersecurity infrastructure, incident response and forensic analytics.
Cyberspace infrastructure and digital sovereignty as a security question.
AI safety, ethics and governance frameworks for public and private deployment.
Secure communication, encryption and surveillance systems for security agencies.
Internal security technologies and applications for policing and public safety.
Forensic technology, digital evidence and the modernisation of forensic science.
Protection of digital public infrastructure and digital social security platforms.
Data protection, privacy and compliance under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

Counter-terrorism and counter-radicalisation frameworks and their institutional design.
Hybrid threats monitoring, information operations and risk response systems.
Border management, immigration control and land border infrastructure.
Intelligence coordination and the fusion of security information.
Left-wing extremism, insurgency and the restoration of governance in affected areas.
Private security players and security service solutions in the national security architecture.
Policing reform, capacity and technology adoption.
Bio-security and the protection of populations and infrastructure from biological threats.

International cooperation in counter-terrorism, cyber security and organised crime.
Quad, BRICS and plurilateral security-economic frameworks in their security dimension.
Disaster risk reduction partnerships and collective resilience arrangements.
Climate science, adaptation research and the governance of climate risk.
Glacial lake outburst floods, mountain ecosystem risk and transboundary hazards.
SDGs, ESG infrastructure and international reporting and assurance standards.
TRIPS compliance and trade-related IP governance as a matter of rules and enforcement.
Corporate social responsibility, impact assessment and its contribution to community resilience.

Sectors this journal leads

Calls for papers and reviewer panels for these sectors sit with this journal. Highlighted sectors are the ones it draws on most.

Banking, Commerce & Financial Services Government Facilities, Legal & Administrative Services Emergency Services & First Responder Systems Biosecurity & Disaster-Resilient Infrastructure Climate Science & Adaptation Research Systems Legal & Conformance Management TRIPS Compliance & Trade-Related IP Governance Corporate Governance Codes & Social Security Linkages CSR Implementation, Impact Assessment & End-User Planning Environmental Stewardship & Green Compliance Obligations Digital Social Security System & Platforms MSME Financial Governance Framework Sustainable Development Goals & ESG Infrastructure Fiscal Digitalisation & Compliance Monitoring Labour Welfare, Social Protection & Gig Economy Governance Quad, BRICS & Plurilateral Security-Economic Frameworks Cyberspace Infrastructure & Digital Sovereignty AI Safety, Ethics & Governance Frameworks Disaster Risk Science & Ecosystem-Based Protection Disaster Resilient Infrastructure & Supply Chain Fire Risk, Protection, Governance & Disaster Management Climate Adaptation Technologies & Systems Rural & Tribal Resilience Infrastructure Disaster Monitoring Systems & Early Warning Networks Glacial Lake Outburst & Mountain Ecosystem Risk Management Internal Security Technologies & Applications Industrial Safety Standards & Occupational Security Forensic Technology & Applications Event Resilience & Crowd Management Private Security Players & Security Service Solutions National Critical Infrastructure Protection Systems Hybrid Threats, Information Integrity & Risk Response Systems Civil Defence & Infrastructure Redundancy Plans Secure Communication & Surveillance Systems Cybersecurity Infrastructure & Forensic Analytics Border Management, Immigration & Coastal Surveillance Counter-Terrorism & Counter-Radicalisation Frameworks Hospitality, Tourism & Public Amenities Civilisational Heritage & Sanātan Assets Protection

Sectors where it carries companion papers

These sectors are led by another journal; this journal takes manuscripts on them that answer its own question.

Aerospace, Airpower & Aero-Industrial Ecosystems Digital Infrastructure Health Care & Emergency Health Management Systems Nuclear Space Infrastructure & Applications Urban Infrastructure & Smart Cities Telecommunications & Satcom Networks Education & Skill Infrastructure Dams, Reservoirs & Flood Control Systems Critical Logistics Resilience & Continuity Planning Civil-Military Integration Coastal Security Management Maritime Domain Awareness & Next-Gen Governance Undersea Cable Infrastructure & Data Network Security Maritime-Littoral Transformation & Coastal Economy Resilience Island Territory Development & Strategic Output Systems Sustainable Infrastructure Design & Life-Cycle Planning Climate-Resilient Infrastructure Disruptive Technology Research Critical Infrastructure Standards, Testing & Certification Defence Technology & Indigenisation Quantum Computing & Applications Advanced Sensors, MEMS & Indigenous Component Ecosystem IT & Business Process Management EdTech, Creative Industries & Content Innovation Ecosystem Intellectual Property Ecosystem & Innovation Incentives Tax, Tariff & Subsidies Global Transformation Alliance & South-South Cooperation IT & Communication AI, Automation & Robotics UAS & Drone Dynamics Quantum Communication Networks National Digital Health Mission Infrastructure Digital Public Infrastructure Industrial Disaster Prevention & Chemical Safety Infra & Construction Media & Marketing National Strategic Reserves & Stockpiling

Not sure which journal fits your manuscript?

The specific domain prevails over the general function. Port security goes to the Bluewater journal, not to the general security journal.
Where no specific domain applies, the dominant verb decides: build and make go to Infrastructure & Manufacturing, move and source to Logistics & Supplychain, protect and govern to Internal Security & Resilience.
Where the verb is balanced, the journal whose primary readers will act on the findings takes the paper.
A paper declined on scope is offered to the companion journal named for its sector before it is returned to the author.

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