Giorgio Shani is Professor and Chair of Politics and International Studies and Director of the Rotary Peace Center at International Christian University (Japan). From 2016 to 2017, he was a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center of International Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science and served as President of the Asia-Pacific Region of the International Studies Association from 2014 to 2018. He is author of Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age (Routledge 2008) and Religion, Identity and Human Security (Routledge 2014). He has, furthermore, co-edited Protecting Human Security in a Post 9/11 World (Palgrave 2007), Religion and Nationalism in Asia (Routledge 2019) and Rethinking Peace (Rowman and Littlefield 2019).See here for an interview: http://www.e-ir.info/2017/01/02/interview-giorgio-shani/