Title: The Manipur Microcosm - Political Order and Questions of Peacebuilding
PhD Supervisor: Keith Krause
Shalaka's research explores how political order is constructed in conflict zones. She has been conducting fieldwork in northeast India along the Indo-Myanmar border since 2013, engaging with non-state armed groups, state security forces, civil society and businesses to understand how wartime orders connect to questions of peacebuilding. Shalaka has been a research associate at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and is currently the lead researcher on a project exploring informal taxation in borderlands at the International Center for Tax and Development (ICTD). Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals and books, such as Asian Security and the Routledge Handbook of Smuggling. She has an MSc in Conflict Studies from LSE.