Saurabh Sharma is Assistant Professor in International Politics and Governance, School of International Studies (SIS), Central University of Gujarat (CUG), Gandhinagar. He completed his doctoral thesis on Rebuilding of Afghanistan in the Post-Taliban Period from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has earlier worked as Research Associate in a United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) funded project on Evaluation of Regional Anti-Trafficking Programme in South Asia. His research interests include post-conflict governance, peace studies, terrorism, small arms proliferation and drug trafficking in South and Central Asia. His immediate teaching commitments include M.Phil. courses on Global Governance and Post-Conflict Governance and an M.A. course on Peace and Conflict Analysis..