Ashok Swain is a Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University Sweden and Director of the Research School for International Water Cooperation.Swain received his PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 1991, and since then has been teaching at Uppsala University. He has been a Mac Arthur Fellow at the University of Chicago, visiting fellowships at UN Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva; University Witwatersrand, South Africa, University of Science, Malaysia, University of British Columbia, University of Maryland, Stanford University, McGill University and Tufts University.Professor Swain has written extensively on new security challenges, international water sharing issues and democratic development. Swain has worked as a consultant on development issues for several UN agencies, OSCE, NATO, EU, IISS, various government agencies of Sweden, the Netherlands and Singapore.