Military service
Leadership and strategic experience as an officer in the Bangladesh Army.
Scholar · Researcher · Peacebuilder
Dr. Kawser Ahmed connects field experience, academic research, and public policy to understand conflict and build practical pathways to peace.
Field note 01
Peace is not an abstract endpoint. It is built through institutions, relationships, and credible choices by us.
Former UN peacekeeper✦Author and editor of 4+ books✦Research leader since 2017✦Scholar across local and global contexts✦Executive Director, CRRIC✦MCIC & Mediation Services Board Members✦
Research agenda
Four questions that guide the work.
My research moves across scales, from classroom and community dynamics to regional security and international institutions.
01
Peacebuilding & Conflict Transformation
Community-led approaches to social conflict, dialogue, reconciliation, and sustainable peace.
02
Forced Displacement & the Rohingya
Research on statelessness, humanitarian diplomacy, regional responsibility, and credible pathways to return.
03
Extremism & Community Resilience
Prevention-focused research with educators, youth, communities, and public institutions in Canada.
04
Arctic Security & Geopolitics
Indigenous-led sovereignty, climate security, defence innovation, and Canada’s changing strategic landscape.
Scholarship in motion
From field experience to public knowledge.
My work began with the realities of military service and UN peacekeeping. It now spans community research in Canada, Rohingya displacement in Bangladesh, regional dialogue across Asia, and debates about Canada’s North.
Follow the journeyTheory matters most when it helps people see conflict more clearly and act with greater care.
Current work
Research built for policy and practice.
01
Global Affairs Canada
Charting a Path to Lasting Peace in Myanmar
A research and regional dialogue initiative focused on conflict resolution, Rohingya displacement, and investment-led stabilization in Rakhine State.
02Public Safety Canada
Extremism Prevention in Manitoba
Evidence, tools, and practical guidance to help educators identify risks and respond without securitizing young people.
03DND MINDS
Arctic Sovereignty & Dual-Use Innovation
Policy research connecting Indigenous leadership, northern security, climate change, and Canada’s defence industrial base.
04DND MINDS
Arctic Sovereignty & Dual-Use Technology
Policy research connecting Indigenous leadership, northern security, climate change, and Canada’s defence industrial base.
05
MCIC and Rotary International
Education in Emergencies
Research explores education in emergencies for Rohingya refugee children in Bangladesh
A career across contexts
Experience changed the questions I ask.
Each stage added a new lens: institutions, conflict zones, communities, classrooms, and policy networks.
Work with Turkish Military
Undergoing course
UN peacekeeping
Field experience with MINURSO in Western Sahara.
Work with US Army
Course at NESA, NDC, USA
Doctoral research
PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Manitoba.
Institution building
Co-founder and Executive Director of the Conflict and Resilience Research Institute Canada.
Post doctoral research
SSHRC postt doctoral research at University of Winnipeg
Teaching and public scholarship
University teaching, policy research, public commentary, and graduate mentorship.
Teaching
Bringing complex conflicts into the classroom.
I teach peace and conflict studies, political science, security, diplomacy, and transformative technologies. My courses connect legal and institutional foundations with cases, simulations, and field-based insight.
University of Winnipeg
University of Manitoba
Bangladesh University of Professionals
Canadian Mennonite University
Public scholarship
Research should travel beyond Ivory Towers.
Through media commentary, public writing, testimony, seminars, and more than 380 CRRIC videos, I bring research into wider conversations about security, displacement, extremism, and peace.
4+Books and edited collections
380+CRRIC webinars and conversations
4Universities taught at