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Anjoo Sharan Upadhyaya Author & Editor

Anjoo Sharan Upadhyaya has served as a professor of political science at Banaras Hindu University since 1997. Her research interests are women and peace, human security, digital technologies and governance. She has edited several books, including Nepal in Transition to Democracy (2013), is the coeditor of the biannual journal, Peace Works and is the co-author of Peace and Conflict Resolution in the Twenty-first Century (forthcoming).

Åshild Kolås is a social anthropologist and research professor at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO). Her core areas of expertise are governance, identity politics and peacebuilding. She is the editor of several anthologies, including Women, Peace and Security in Myanmar: Between Feminism and Ethnopolitics (2019) and Sovereignty Revisited: The Basque Case (2017, co-edited with Pedro Ibarra Güell).

Ruchita Beri is a senior research associate and centre coordinator for the Africa, Latin America, Caribbean and United Nations Centre at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi. She has edited several books including India and Africa: Common Security Challenges for the Next Decade (2016).