Associate Research Fellow Mr. Arabinda Acharya

• Biography:
  Arabinda Acharya is Manager Strategic Projects at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research. He was an External Research Associate, York University Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies University of Toronto and a Visiting Research Fellow, Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS) Colombo, Sri Lanka.

  His area of research includes Foreign and Security Policy; Asia-Pacific Political and Strategic Affairs; Conflict Studies; Human Security and Terrorism and Political Violence with specialization in terrorist ideology, terrorist financing and maritime terrorism. He has presented in a number of international conferences on regionalism, human security and terrorism issues including on global and regional terrorist threat, maritime terrorism, terrorist financing and ideology.

Selected Publications:
Human Security In Asia Pacific: Puzzle, Panacea or Peril? CANCAPS Bulletin No. 27, November 2000, Shadow Over the Subcontinent: South Asia Goes Nuclear- a Look at Security, George Town Journal of International Affairs; Vol. II, No. 1 (Winter/Spring 2001), Engaging China In South Asia Harvard Asia Quarterly, Vol. V, No. 3, (Summer 2001), Promoting Human Security in South Asia Through Multilateral Cooperation, Dipankar Banerjee, (ed), SAARC in the 21st Century: Towards a Cooperative Future, (New Delhi, India Research Press, 2002), The Global Terror Threat: Are We Winning or Losing? Pacifying the Pacific: Confronting the Challenges, ISIS, Malaysia, 2004, Targeting Islamist Terrorism in Asia Pacific: An Unending War, Asia Pacific Review, Vol. II, No. 2, November 2004, Conflict and Terrorism in Southern Thailand, Marshall Cavandish Academic, Singapore ( 2005), The Al Qaeda Training Camps of Afghanistan and Beyond, The Making of a Terrorist: Recruitment, Training, and Root Causes, James JF Forest, ed. (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2005), Terrorism and Transnational Organized Crime in Comparative Perspective, Organized Crime: An International Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO (2005) Terrorism and Regional Security, in Global Terrorism: Genesis, Implications, Remedial and Counter Measures, The Institute of Regional Studies, Islamabad, 2006, Thailand and Indonesia, in Flashpoints in the War on Terror: Understanding the Role of Islam and Economic Transformation in Political Conflicts, Derek Reveron ed., Rutledge, (2006), Countering the Global Islamist Terrorist Threat, The Korean Journal of Defence Analysis, Vol. XVIII, No. 1, Spring 2006, Thailand, in Derek Reveron and Jeffrey S. Murer eds., Flashpoints in the War on Terrorism, New York, London: Rutledge, (2006), Indonesia in Derek Reveron and Jeffrey S. Murer eds., Flashpoints in the War on Terrorism, New York, London: Rutledge, (2006), Kashmir in the International System in W. Pal Singh Sidhu et al. Eds., Kashmir New Voices, New Approaches, London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, (2006), India’s Role in Ethnic Crisis in Sri Lanka, in M.B. Munshi ed. The India Doctrine, Dhaka: Bangladesh Research Forum, (2006), India and Southeast Asia in the Age of Terror: Building Partnerships for Peace , Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol. 28, No. 2 (2006), Cooperation Issues in the Global War on Terror, Peter Catona, Michael Intriligator and John Sullivan, eds., Countering Terrorism and WMD: Creating a global Counter-terrorism network, London and New York, Routledge, (2006), Threats to Good Order , in Ravi Chopra and D. Chakraborty eds., Maritime Dimensions of a New World Order, New Delhi: National Maritime Foundation (2007), Maritime Terrorist Threat in Southeast Asia, in Kwa Chong Guan and John. N. Skogan, eds, Maritime Security in Southeast Asia, London and New York: Routledge, 2007, Terrorist Finance and the Criminal Underground, in Michelle Innes Ed, Denial of Sanctuary, Understanding Terrorist Safe Havens, Praeger, (2007), Terrorism and Transnational Organized Crime in Comparative Perspective, Organized Crime: From Trafficking to Terrorism, Santa Barbara , Denver, Colorado: ABC-CLIO (2007), The Myth of the Second Front: Localizing the ‘War on Terror’ in Southeast Asia, Washington Quarterly, (Autumn 2007)