Pramod Jaiswal, Ph.D., is Research Director at Nepal Institute for International Cooperation and Engagement (NIICE), Kathmandu. He is Faculty at Department of International Relations and Diplomacy and Department of Political Science at Tribhuvan University; Visiting Faculty at Pokhara University, Army Staff and Command College and Kathmandu University. He is also associated with Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (New Delhi) as Senior Fellow and Cooperative Monitoring Center, Sandia National Laboratories (USA) as Visiting Fellow. He has previously worked at Fudan University (Shanghai), Tongji University (Shanghai), China Foreign Affairs University (Beijing), Qinghai University of Nationalities (Xining) and Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (New Delhi).

Deepak Prakash Bhatt, Ph.D., is Founding Chairperson of Nepal Center for Security Governance (NCSG). He served as a member of the Technical Committee and Secretariat of the Special Committee for Supervision, Integration and Rehabilitation of Maoist Army Combatants from March 2009 to December 2012. He holds Ph.D. from School of International Studies, JNU, and is Faculty at the Master’s in International Relations and Diplomacy (MIRD), Department of Conflict, Peace and Development Studies (DCPDS) and Institute of Crisis Management Studies (ICMS), Tribhuvan University, and Visiting Professor, Armed Police Force Command and Staff College, Kathmandu, Nepalese Army Higher Command and Management Course, Nagarkot and Nepalese Army Command and Staff College (ACSC), Shivapuri, Kathmandu.