Namrata Goswami

Research Fellow

Joined IDSA

April 2006

Expertise

International Relations Theory, Ethnic and Intra-State Conflicts, Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution

Education

MA (Politics and Administration), Pune University
Masters Diploma (Journalism and Communications), Symbiosis Institute of Journalism and Communication, Pune
PhD (International Organization), School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Current Project

International Security Audit: Great Power Cooperation or Competition
Armed Ethnic Conflicts in Northeast India and the Indian State's Response

Background

Submitted her doctoral thesis to Jawaharlal Nehru University titled "Just War Theory and Humanitarian Intervention: A Comparative Case Study of East Pakistan and Kosovo." She has worked as Editorial Assistant, USI Journal, at the United Service Institution of India, New Delhi; Assistant Editor, India's National Security Annual Review, 2005; Reporter for The Indian Express, Pune; Copy Editor and Writer, Creative Point, Mumbai; and Researcher in the project "Culture and Identity, Sikkim", South Asia Foundation, New Delhi.

Select Publication

• Co-editor, India's North East: New Vistas for Peace (New Delhi: Manas, 2008).
• "Twilight over Guerrilla Zone: Retracing the Naga Peace Process," in Jaideep Saikia, ed., Frontier in Flames: North East India in Turmoil (New Delhi: Penguin, 2007).
• "The Naga Narrative of Conflict: Envisioning a Resolution Roadmap," Strategic Analysis, vol. 31, no. 2, March 2007.
• "Manifesto for Kantian Utopianism," Strategic Analysis, vol. 31, no. 4, July 2007.
• "The Essence of the South Asian Nuclear Debate," Strategic Analysis, vol. 30, no. 3, July-September 2006.