The Role of Media in Promoting Regional Understanding in South Asia

Priyanka Singh is Associate Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi. She joined IDSA in 2007 and is associated with the South Asia Centre. She is also part of the project team on Pakistan. She holds an Honours degree in Political Science from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi and a Ph.D. from University of Lucknow. Her Ph.D. thesis was titled: “Indo-US Relations in the Last Decade – 1990-2000: Shifting Paradigms”. Her broader research interests include: Indo-US relations and US engagement in Pakistan; Cross Line of Control Confidence Building Measures between India and Pakistan. She has travelled extensively across the state of Jammu and Kashmir.

She is the co-editor of Proliferation and Emerging Nuclear Order in the Twenty First Century (Academic Foundation, New Delhi, 2009) and Saving Afghanistan (Academic Foundation, New Delhi, 2009). She is the author of a monograph titled Gilgit Baltistan: Between Hope and Despair. During June-August 2009, she undertook a postgraduate course in Peace Research at the University of Oslo conducted by the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO). Her select publications include: American Strategy in Afghanistan: Dilemmas, Miscalculations and Outcomes, Strategic Analysis 38 (3) May/June 2014; Whither Aid? Future of US Assistance to Pakistan, Journal of Defence Studies, 5 (4) October 2011; Army: The Be-All or End-All of Pakistan Politics?, Strategic Analysis, 39 (3) May/ June 2015.