Ashok Swain

Ashok Swain(born 19 February 1965) is an Indian-born academic and professor of peace and conflict research at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University.[1] In 2017, he was appointed as the UNESCO Chair of International Water Cooperation and became the first UNESCO Chair of Uppsala University.[2] [3] Swain received his PhD in 1991 from the School of International Studies of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Ashok Swain has been a MacArthur Visitng Fellow at the University of Chicago, visiting fellow at UN Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva; and visiting professor at University Witwatersrand, University of Science, Malaysia, University of British Columbia, University of Maryland, Stanford University, McGill University, Tufts University and University of Natural Sciences and Life Sciences, Vienna[4]. He has written extensively on new security challenges, water sharing issues, environment, conflict and peace, and democratic development issues. He has published 17 (7 author, 10 Editor)[5] books, more than 44[6] journal articles. Swain has worked as a policy consultant on the environment, water, development and migration issues for various UN agencies and Governments of Sweden, Netherlands, UK, and Singapore. He also writes and comments frequently on South Asian Politics and Religious Fundamentalism.[7]

Ashok Swain
Born (1965-02-19) 19 February 1965
Patalda, Puri, Odisha, India
NationalitySwedish, Indian origin
Alma materJawaharlal Nehru University

Selected publications

Books
  • Ashok Swain & Anders Jägerskog, Emerging Security Threats in the Middle East: The Impact of Climate Change and Globalization (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016).[8]
  • Anton Earle, Ana Elise Cascao, Stina Hansson, Anders Jägerskog, Ashok Swain, & J¨oakim Öjendal, Transboundary Water Management and the Climate Change Debate (London: Routledge, 2015). [9]
  • Ashok Swain, Understanding Emerging Security Challenges: Threats and Opportunities (London: Routledge, 2012). [10]
  • Ashok Swain, Struggle Against the State: Social Network and Protest Mobilization in India (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010).[11]
  • Ashok Swain, Managing Water Conflict: Asia, Africa and the Middle East (London & New York: Routledge, 2004). [12]
  • Ashok Swain, The Environmental Trap: The Ganges River Diversion, Bangladeshi Migration and Conflicts in India (Uppsala: Department of Peace and Conflict Research, 1996). [13]
  • Ashok Swain, Environment and Conflict: Analyzing the Developing World (Uppsala: Department of Peace and Conflict Research, 1993).[14]

Edited books
  • Anders Jägerskog, Michael Schulz & Ashok Swain, Routledge Handbook on Middle East Security (London: Routledge, 2019). [15]
  • Ashok Swain & Joakim Öjendal, eds., Routledge Handbook of Environmental Conflict and Peacebuilding (London: Routledge, 2018). [16]
  • Anders Jägerskog, Ashok Swain & Joakim Öjendal, eds., Water Security (4 Volume Set) (London: Sage Publications Ltd, 2014). [17]
  • Ramses Amer, Ashok Swain & Joakim Öjendal. eds., The Security-Development Nexus: Peace, Conflict and Development (London: Anthem Press, 2012). [18]
  • Ashok Swain, Ramses Amer & Joakim Öjendal. eds., The Democratization Project: Opportunities and Challenges (London: Anthem Press, 2009). [19]
  • Ashok Swain, Ramses Amer & Joakim Öjendal. Eds., Globalization and Challenges to Building Peace (London, New York & Delhi: Anthem Press, 2007). [20]
  • Ashok Swain, ed., Islam and Violent Separatism: New Democracies in Southeast Asia (London, New York & Bahrain: Kegan Paul, 2007). [21]
  • Ashok Swain, ed.,Diasporas, Armed Conflicts and Peacebuilding in their Homelands(Uppsala University, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, 2007).[22]
  • Fiona Rotberg & Ashok Swain, eds., Natural Resources Scarcity in South Asia: Nepal's Water(Stockholm: Institute for Security and Development Policy, 2007).[23]
  • Ashok Swain, ed., Education as Social Action: Knowledge, Identity and Power (Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).[24]

References
  1. "Ashok Swain - Uppsala University, Sweden". katalog.uu.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2018-09-14.
  2. "First UNESCO Chair at Uppsala University - Uppsala University, Sweden". www.uu.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2018-09-14.
  3. "Unescoprofessurer i Sverige " Svenska Unescorådet". www.unesco.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2018-09-14.
  4. Infoglue-support. "Ashok Swain - Uppsala University, Sweden". katalog.uu.se. Retrieved 2020-06-23.
  5. "Books by Ashok Swain (Author of Understanding Emerging Security Challenges)". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2020-06-23.
  6. Infoglue-support. "Ashok Swain - Uppsala University, Sweden". katalog.uu.se. Retrieved 2020-06-23.
  7. "Ashok Swain | Daily Mail, Quartz, The Conversation Journalist | Muck Rack". muckrack.com. Retrieved 2019-04-07.
  8. Swain, Ashok; Jägerskog, Anders (2016). Emerging Security Threats in the Middle East: The Impact of Climate Change and Globalization. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781442247659. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  9. Earle, Anton; Cascao, Ana Elisa; Hansson, Stina; Jägerskog, Anders; Swain, Ashok; Öjendal, Joakim (2015). Transboundary Water Management and the Climate Change Debate. Routledge. ISBN 9781136228360. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  10. Swain, Ashok (2013). Understanding Emerging Security Challenges: Threats and Opportunities. Routledge. ISBN 9780415523301. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  11. Swain, Ashok (2016). Struggle Against the State: Social Network and Protest Mobilization in India. Routledge. ISBN 9781317049050.
  12. Swain, Ashok (2004). Managing Water Conflict: Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Routledge. ISBN 9781135768836. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  13. Swain, Ashok (1996). The Environmental Trap: The Ganges River Diversion, Bangladeshi Migration, and Conflicts in India. Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University. ISBN 9789150611458. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  14. Swain, Ashok (1993). Environment and Conflict: Analysing the Developing World. Uppsala University. ISBN 9789150609905. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  15. Jägerskog, Anders; Schulz, Michael; Swain, Ashok (2019). Routledge Handbook on Middle East Security. Routledge. ISBN 9781351718363. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  16. Swain, Ashok; Öjendal, Joakim (2018). Routledge Handbook of Environmental Conflict and Peacebuilding. Routledge. ISBN 9781315473758. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  17. Jägerskog, Anders; Swain, Ashok; Öjendal, Joakim (2014). Water Security. SAGE Publications. ISBN 9781446293928. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  18. Amer, Ramses; Swain, Ashok; Öjendal, Joakim (2013). The Security-Development Nexus: Peace, Conflict and Development. Anthem Press. ISBN 9781783080656. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  19. Swain, Ashok; Amer, Ramses; Öjendal, Joakim (2011). The Democratization Project: Opportunities and Challenges. Anthem Press. ISBN 9780857283993.
  20. Swain, Ashok; Amer, Ramses; Öjendal, Joakim (2008). Globalization and Challenges to Building Peace. Anthem Press. ISBN 9781843312871.
  21. Swain, Ashok (2014). Islam And Violent Separatism. Routledge. ISBN 9781135024420.
  22. Bush, Kenneth D. (2007). Diasporas, Armed Conflicts and Peacebuilding in Their Homelands. Uppsala Universitet. ISBN 9789150619638.
  23. Swain, Ashok (2007). Natural Resources Scarcity in South Asia: Nepal's Water (Stockholm: Institute for Security and Development Policy, 2007). Editor with Fiona Rotberg. Stockholm: Institute for Security and Development Policy. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  24. Swain, A. (2005). Education as Social Action: Knowledge, Identity and Power. Springer. ISBN 9780230505605.
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