Prabin B. Khadka is an Assistant Professor at the University of Essex, where his research focuses on international interventions encompassing military, peacekeeping, and development efforts‚ and their impact on social cohesion, conflict dynamics, and peacebuilding. His work examines how these interventions interact within the broader economic and political frameworks of conflict-affected regions, employing RCTs, survey experiments, and lab-in-the-field behavioral games to assess attitudes and behaviors in fragile environments. His research has a particular emphasis on the Horn of Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. Currently, Prabin is exploring the intersection of climate change, conflict, and migration, with a focus on Somalia and South Sudan.
Prabin holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from New York University (2020) and an MA in International Security from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service (2011). His research has been published or is forthcoming in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Peace Research, Scientific Report and Defense and Peace Economics. He is an affiliated researcher with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL), Inclusion Economics Nepal, and the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (UCIGCC).
Before entering academia, Prabin served for 14 years as a Combat Engineer Officer in the Nepal Army, where he specialized in rural infrastructure development and bomb disposal operations during the Maoist Conflict. He also served as a UN peacekeeper in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2003, 2008) and worked with organizations such as UNDP, the World Bank, and the Danish Refugee Council across Africa, the Middle East, and Nepal. Recently, he supported UNDP Somalia in measuring SDG 16.3 outcomes and is currently assisting the UN in Ukraine with their Mine Action Strategy.
Prabin B. Khadka is an Assistant Professor at the University of Essex, where his research focuses on international interventions encompassing military, peacekeeping, and development efforts‚ and their impact on social cohesion, conflict dynamics, and peacebuilding. His work examines how these interventions interact within the broader economic and political frameworks of conflict-affected regions, employing RCTs, survey experiments, and lab-in-the-field behavioral games to assess attitudes and behaviors in fragile environments. His research has a particular emphasis on the Horn of Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. Currently, Prabin is exploring the intersection of climate change, conflict, and migration, with a focus on Somalia and…