Prof. Manish Thapa, PhD

Dr. Thapa is Research Professor of International Relations and Security Studies at Institute of International Relations - Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at University of Warsaw. He was Head and Professor of Peace and Security Studies at Department of Peace and Conflict Studies United Nations mandated University for Peace (UPEACE) in Costa Rica (2015-2018). He is one of the founding members of Department of Conflict, Peace & Development Studies at Tribhuvan University Nepal (2007-2015). He has served as Research Fellow in several universities and institutes in Europe and North America.

Dr. Thapa was Brown International Advanced Research Institute Fellow at Brown University (2011), Robert McNamara Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Peace & Conflict Research at Uppsala University (2009-2010), McGill – Echenberg Human Rights Fellow at McGill University (2010), Kroc Visiting Research Fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA (2008-2009) and Sauvé Research Fellow at McGill University (2006-2007).

He is co-chair of the Internal Conflicts Commission at the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) and Council Member of the Asia-Pacific Peace Research Association (APPRA). He has published numerous books, journal articles and book chapters with leading publishers and journals. His recent publications are Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies, (Chief Editor), Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. (Forthcoming – Nov 2018); From Bullet to Ballot – Peacemaking and Peacebuilding in Nepal: Lessons Learned and Unlearned, (Editor & Contributor), London: Routledge 2018. (Forthcoming – Dec 2018); Foreign Policy in the Global South: Anti-Westernism, Rhetoric & Identity, (Co-Editor & Contributor), London: Routledge (Forthcoming – March 2019); Internal Conflicts & Peacebuilding Challenges (KW Publishers: 2015); India in the Contemporary World (Routledge, 2014).