Dr. Siddharth Tripathi

Short Biography

Dr. Siddharth Tripathi is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of International and Security Affairs at Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Berlin. His primary interest lies in non-western perspectives in IR and peace and conflict studies. His other research and teaching interests include Foreign Policy of India and the European Union. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, University of Erfurt where he examined the legitimacy of peace missions and the link between external actors and informal power networks in post-conflict societies. In his PhD at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, he examined the role of the European Union in mitigating conflicts by evaluating its civilian crisis management missions in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Afghanistan. As part of his research at the doctoral and postdoctoral level, he has conducted extensive fieldwork in Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Berlin and Brussels.

Apart from research, he served as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Lady Shri Ram College for Women (LSR), University of Delhi. He facilitated courses and coordinated the diploma programme on Conflict Transformation and Peace Building at the Aung San Suu Kyi Centre for Peace at LSR. He has held visiting positions at Institute of Diplomacy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kabul, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (German Institute for International and Security Affairs), and Free University, Berlin. He was nominated as one of the youngest members of the State Planning Commission, Uttar Pradesh, India. Currently, he is editing the Rowman and Littlefield Handbook on Peace and Conflict Studies: Perspectives from the Global South(s) with Prof. Dr. Solveig Richter.