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.
Former UN peacekeeper✦Author and editor of 10+ books✦Research leader since 2017✦Scholar across local and global contexts✦Executive Director, CRRIC✦
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 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.
A career across contexts
Experience changed the questions I ask.
Each stage added a new lens: institutions, conflict zones, communities, classrooms, and policy networks.
UN peacekeeping
Field experience with MINURSO in Western Sahara.
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.
Teaching and public scholarship
University teaching, policy research, public commentary, and graduate mentorship.
Selected books
Ideas developed across a body of work.
Books and edited collections on displacement, peacekeeping, extremism, community intervention, and conflict transformation.
Kawser Ahmed
Rohingya Stories
History and Geopolitics in a Multipolar World
Springer2025
Springer
Kawser Ahmed
Understanding the Rohingya Displacement
Security, Media, and Humanitarian Perspectives
Springer Nature2024
Springer Nature
Kawser Ahmed
Keeping Peace in a Turbulent World
Reflections from the Field
Cambridge Scholars Publishing2023
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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 the university.
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.
10+Books and edited collections
380+CRRIC videos and conversations
4Universities taught at
News & events
Latest from the field.
National Security in Canada: Crisis and Issues Ahead
ERIM conference
Read moreERIM Wrap up conference 2024
ERIM conference
Read moreCanada’s Foreign Interference
https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/cons/fi-ie/pdf/Addressing_foreign_interference.pdfhttps://news.uwinnipeg.ca/political-science-professor-co-publishes-book-on-peacekeeping/
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