Ashok Swain

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 MacArthur Visiting Fellow at the University of Chicago, and as a Visiting Fellow at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) in Geneva. He has also served as a Visiting Professor at several international institutions, including the University of the Witwatersrand, University of Science, Malaysia, University of British Columbia, University of Maryland, Stanford University, McGill University, Tufts University, and the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. Professor Swain has published extensively on topics related to new security challenges, international water sharing, environmental conflict and peacebuilding, and democratic development. He has also served as a consultant on environmental and development issues for various international organizations, including UN agencies, OSCE, NATO, EU, IISS, the Arab League, and Oxfam, as well as the governments of Sweden, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Singapore.