P. Sahadevan

Biography

P. Sahadevan is Professor of South Asian Studies (since May 2003) and currently Book Review Editor of International Studies, an academic journal published by Sage, New Delhi. He held visiting fellowships at the University of Kent at Canterbury, U.K. (1993-94) and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA (1998). Before joining JNU as Associate Professor in May 1995, Sahadevan was Project Officer at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, The Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, New Delhi; Researcher at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi; and Research Assistant at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, for about six years (1988-1993). Sahadevan currently teaches three course, Introduction to Peace and Conflict Resolution (for M.A students); ,Political Development and Foreign Policy of Sri Lanka, and South Asia in International Politics (both for M. Phil students). He lectures regularly to Indian Foreign Service (IFS) trainee officers at the Foreign Service Institute (FSI), New Delhi and serving senior civil and military officers (both from India and abroad) at the National Defence College, New Delhi. He has to his credit over 60 seminar presentations/lectures at various institutions in India and abroad. While focusing primarily on various aspects of Sri Lanka, Sahadevan has worked on ethnic conflicts and problems of peace in South Asia. In addition, he has strong interest in the areas of terrorism, political violence and civil war; conflict resolution (both theory and South Asian cases); India's foreign policy (with special reference to South Asia), and Indian diaspora. He has so far supervised over 10 theses and 25 dissertations.

Research Interest

India's foreign policy, Indian diaspora.