<span style="color: #222222;">The third edition of Goa Maritime Conclave (GMC) 2021 is being held from November 7-9  under the aegis of Naval War College, Goa. The GMC is the Indian Navy's Outreach Initiative providing a multinational platform to harness the collective wisdom of practitioners of maritime security and the academia towards garnering outcome-oriented maritime thought. GMC-21 would build upon the working level deliberations of the Goa Maritime Symposium-21 held earlier in May this year, as the Sherpa event for the Conclave.<br />''      <br />'' The theme for this year's edition of GMC is Maritime Security and Emerging Non-Traditional Threats- A Case for Proactive Role for Indian Ocean Region Navies.<br />'' <br />'' Our correspondent reports, at the GMC-21, Navy Chief Adm Karambir Singh would be hosting Chiefs of Navies, Heads of Maritime Forces from 12 Indian Ocean littorals, including Bangladesh, Comoros, Indonesia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Myanmar, Seychelles, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Thailand.<br />'' <br />'' With IOR becoming the focus of the 21st-century strategic landscape, the GMC aims to bring together regional stakeholders and deliberate on the collaborative implementation strategies in dealing with contemporary maritime security challenges.</span>