Arabinda Acharya

Arabinda Acharya now teaches at the Joint Special Operations Master of Arts Program, College of International Security Affairs, National Defense University, at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, USA. He is also an Adjunct Fellow with the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore where he worked 12 years before moving to the US. He is an Adjunct Faculty, Department of Geo-Politics, Manipal University, India and Deputy Director of the Centre for Peace and Development Studies, India.

He was an External Research Associate at the York University Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, University of Toronto, Canada and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS) Colombo, Sri Lanka and International Scholar in Residence at the Stella Maris College, Madras University, India.

Arabinda holds Doctor of Philosophy in International Relations from Deakin University, Australia; Master of Science in Strategic Studies from Nanayang Technological University, Singapore; Master of Arts in Political Science and Bachelor in Law from Utkal University, India

Arabinda has published 6 books including, Whither Southeast Asia Terrorism?; Ten Years After 9/11- Rethinking the Jihadist Threat; and Targeting Terrorist Financing: International Cooperation and New Regimes and numerous articles in reputed journals, book volumes and newspapers and listed in the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations’ Roster of Experts for expertise on regionalism, human security and terrorism.