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Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden @UU_Peace

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Ashok Swain is a Professor and Head of the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, as well as UNESCO Chair on International Water Cooperation at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is also the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Environment and Security, published by Sage. Professor Swain earned his Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, in 1991. Since then, he has been a faculty member at Uppsala University. He has held numerous visiting appointments, including as a…

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War and peace

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By Ashok Swain
| National Herald India Verified
Ashok Swain on how Iran endured, Netanyahu lost and Trump surrendered to reality Donald Trump was desperate to end the Iran war, and for good reason too. The ‘memorandum of understanding’ signed by the US and Iran is being celebrated by the White House as a diplomatic triumph, but it looks far more like an escape route from a war that Trump didn’t know or expect would last this long and never imagined would produce these results. The timing is revealing.
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Why ‘Indian’ is becoming a bad word in the West

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By Ashok Swain
| National Herald India Verified
There is a rising tide of anti-Indian sentiment in the West, writes Ashok Swain, but it’s not ‘Hinduphobia’ Five years ago, I wrote a piece debunking the myth of ‘Hinduphobia’. This was the time that several Hindutva organisations in North America and Europe were trying to popularise the term as a political counterweight to Islamophobia.
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Who can(not) have a nuclear weapon

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By Ashok Swain
| National Herald India Verified
Ashok Swain on the uneven application of NPT standards to Iran and Israel and on the hypocrisy of the West As US and Israeli bombs and missiles rained on Iranian cities and nuclear facilities, the justification they offered was both familiar and revealing: Iran must never acquire a nuclear weapon. The military action, sanctions, assassinations and flagrant violation of international law were all ‘necessary to prevent a future nuclear threat’.
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