About the Author

About the Authors Transnational Professor Bishnu Pathak was a former Senior Commissioner at the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons (CIEDP), Nepal who has been a Nobel Peace Prize nominee from 2013-2019 for his noble finding of Peace-Conflict Lifecycle similar to the ecosystem. A Board Member of the TRANSCEND Peace University holds a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary Conflict Transformation and Human Rights in two decades. Arduous Dr. Pathak is an author of over 100 international paper-book publications including Politics of People's War and Human Rights in Nepal (2005), Generations of Transitional Justice in the World (2019), The Nepal Compact: Potential for Cold War II (2022), Negotiation by Peaceful Means: Nepo-India Territorial Disputes (2022), among others, have been used as Universities references in more than 100 countries across the globe. Immense versatile personality Dr. Pathak's publications belong to Human Rights, Human Security, Peace, Conflict Transformation, and Transitional Justice among others. He can be reached at ciedpnp@gmail.com. Susmita Bastola successfully completed her Ph.D. in Peace and Human Rights at the beginning of 2023 at Osaka Jogakuin University, Japan. Her research interest is conflict transformation, peace, transitional justice, reconciliation, mediation, facilitation, and creating alternative mechanisms to deal with armed conflict and violence. She is also a co-author of the widely circulated volume Negotiation by Peaceful Means: Nepo-India Territorial Disputes (2022). She can be reached at bastolasusmita@gmail.com.