Manish Thapa

Manish Thapa is Resident Professor of International Peace Studies at United Nations mandated University for Peace (UPEACE) in Costa Rica. He is Visiting Professor at Institute of International Relations (IIR) at University of Warsaw. He was Assistant Professor of Peace Studies (2007-2015) in the Department of Conflict, Peace & Development Studies at Tribhuvan University in Nepal, where he used to teach courses on non-violence, human rights, peace-building and conflict transformation.

Manish 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).

Manish has extensive experience working in peacebuilding and conflict transformation in both scholarly and praxis realm. He has taught in many universities as Visiting Faculty in Asia, Europe and North America such as Jawaharlal Nehru University (India), South Asia University (India), Birla Institute of Management Technology (India), Apeejay Stya University (India), University of Calcutta (India), Banaras Hindu University (India), Shinawatra University (Thailand), SIAM University (Thailand), Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand), McGill University (Canada), University of Toronto (Canada), American University (USA), University of Notre Dame (USA), University of Warsaw (Poland), Katholic University of Leuven (Belgium), and Dublin City University (Ireland). He has long experience working as consultant for UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia, Save the Children, UNDP, The Asia Foundation, and Norwegian Aid for International Development (NORAD) on various peacebuilding and peace education programs. In 2005, he founded the Nepal Peace Initiative Alliance, which was instrumental in the establishment of the Ministry of Peace & Reconstruction in Nepal.

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 International Relations in Asia: Great Powers and Institutions (Routledge 2016- forthcoming); Internal Conflicts & Peacebuilding Challenges (KW Publishers: 2015); India in the Contemporary World: Polity, Economy & International Relations (Routledge, 2014).