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My Work

Work and Activities

Book Reviews

  • Proscribing Peace: How Listing Armed Groups as Terrorists Hurts Negotiations. Civil Wars, Aug, 2022.

  • Negotiating Survival: Civilian-Insurgent Relations in Afghanistan by Ashley Jackson. Global Policy, Durham University and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. May 2022

Conference Participations

  • 'Lets Talk Directly': Rebel Groups Pathways to Formal Negotiations, ISA 2023 | Montreal, Canada.
  • ‘Rebel Groups Participation in Formal Negotiations: A New Theoretical Framework’ at SGRI (Standing Group di Relazioni Internationali) Conference 2022 | Perugia, Italy
  • Time will Tell: Rebel Group's Participation in the Formal Negotiation of the Peace Process, ISA 2022, March 2022
  • A Critical Review of Rebel Groups' Participation in the Formal Negotiations of the Peace Process, SISP Conference, 9-11 September 2021
  • ‘Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) in Power and Limits of Populism in Pakistan’ at Ireland-India Institute of Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, April 2019.
  • Student Delegate to ‘Jindal-LUMS Conclave at O.P. Jindal University, Sonipat India, April 2014 

Teaching Activity

Guest Lecture(s):

Guest Lecture on Peace Negotiations between Taliban and the US at Conference "Afghanistan 2001-2021" Observatory of Conflicts Seminar, DISPO, University of Genoa.

Teaching Assistance:

  1. Teaching Assistant for the course Comparative Religions at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan  Jan 2016- May 2016

  2. Teaching Assistant for the course Philosophy and Politics of Global Ecology at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan  Jan 2016- May 2016

  3. Teaching Assistant for the course Dialogue and Critique in the Age of Terror at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan  Jan 2016- May 2016

Report Writings

Amjad, Maria. "Is Nawaz Government Changing Gears Towards India?" Modern Diplomacy, March 2017. 

Op-eds

  • Amjad, M. and Saikaan, L., "Hypersonic Missiles May Threaten International Security, Necessitate Development of New Weapons Agreement'' The Counterterrorism Group, August 2020. 

Amjad, Maria. "Nawaz Sharif’s ouster: A blow to democracy?" Qrius, August 2017. 

Amjad, Maria. "Nawaz Sharif’s ouster: A blow to democracy?" Qrius, August 2017. 

You can access the whole list  of articles written by me for magazine 'Modern Diplomacy' under my profile:

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