Conflict Management in Kashmir: State-People Relations and Peace

Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra completed his M.Phil and Ph.D. from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. He has taught post graduate students at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University, Moscow. Dr. Mahapatra has also done a research project sponsored by the Global IDP Project/Norwegian Refugee Council, Geneva. Dr. Mahapatra's areas of specialization include, Kashmir issue, terrorism, Chechnya and Indo-Russian relations. He has presented papers and attended conferences on these topics at the national and international level. He has also contributed articles in reputed journals and newspapers including, International Studies, India Quarterly, Indian Journal of Political Science, Mainstream and The Pioneer. Currently, he is working on a POK Project, as a Fellow, Centre for Strategic and Regional Studies, University of Jammu, Jammu (India). He is also the editor of the quarterly newsletter Across LOC.