Associate Fellow, International Security Programme

Expertise

• Sri Lanka
• India and Pakistan
• Organised crime
• Small arms and light weapons
• Security sector reform

Projects

• Tribal areas of Pakistan
• Illegal small arms and light weapons in Sri Lanka
• Technology and organised crime
• Post-conflict weapons decommissioning
  

Recent Publications

• 'Les LTTE, Mouvement De Liberation et D'Oppression Nationale', in, Gayer, l. and C. Jaffrelot (eds), Milices armees d'Asie du Sud, (Presses de Sciences Po, Paris, 2008), pp.95-120.
• 'Weapons Transfers to Non-State Armed Groups', Disarmament Forum: Engaging Non-State Actors, No 1, (UNIDIR, 2008).
• 'The Civil War in Sri Lanka and the Role and Influence of the United Kingdom', in, International Dimensions of the Conflict in Sri Lanka, (Centre for Just Peace and Democracy, Emmenbrucke, Switzerland, 2008), pp.92-102.
• 'Sri Lanka Returns to War', Asian Affairs, Vol XXXIX, No 1, (March 2008, pp.83 - 94).
• 'Les Tigres tamouls se nourissent de la diaspora', Alternatives Internationales, No 5, (November 2007), pp.28-30.
• 'The Eelam End Game?', International Affairs, Vol 83, No 1, (January 2007), pp.101-118.
• 'Sri Lanka: The Continued Armed Struggle of the LTTE', in, de Zeeuw, J., (ed), Transforming Rebel Movements After Civil War, (Lynne Rienner, Boulder, 2007).
• 'Sri Lanka Returns to War', Jane's Intelligence Review, (November 2006).
• 'Rebel attacks intensify as Sri Lanka slides towards civil war', Jane's Intelligence Review, Vol 18, No 3, (March 2006), pp.19-23.
• 'Tamil Tigers face tough choices in wake of tsunami', Jane's Intelligence Review, Vol 17, No 3, (March 2005), pp.36-39.
• 'The Conventional Arms Race in South Asia: A Third Party Perspective', in, Cheema, P.I. and I.M. Bokhari, (eds), Arms Race and Nuclear Developments in South Asia, (Islamabad Policy Institute, Islamabad, 2004), pp.25-35.
  

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