DrZahid Ahmed

1. Defence & Diplomacy: Prospects of Pak-India Talks, PTV World, January 2016

2. Defence & Diplomacy: Pathankot Terrorist Attack & Pak-India Talks, January 2016

1. Board Member, Jacobs-Abbey Global Institute for Leadership Studies, USA.

2. Board Member, International Peace Research Association (IPRA) Foundation, USA.

3. Academic Advisor, Educational Divide Reform, USA

4. Senior Associate, Empowerment through Creative Integration, Pakistan

5. Global Advisory Board Member, The Contact Project, USA

6. Board Member, South Asia Centre for Peace, Pakistan

7. Member, Alliance for Peacebuilding, USA

1. 2008-12: Research Encouragement Awards, School of Humanities, University of New England, Australia

2. 2008: Australian Governments Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS) for PhD

3. 2008: University of New England Research Scholarship (UNERS) for PhD

4. 2005: University for Peace Postgraduate Research Scholarship

1. Community-based conflict resolution strategies in Pakistan: A Case Study of Dispute Resolution Councils, The Third International Forum on Social Conflict Prevention and Response, Melbourne, 24 October 2018.

2. Impact of Chinas Belt and Road Initiative on conflict and cooperation in South Asia, 25th World Congress of Political Science, Brisbane, 21-25 July 2018.

3. Impact of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor on peace and security in Pakistan, Workshop on Global Perspectives of the Belt and Road Initiative: Maritime Studies and Chinas Global Investment, Zhejiang University, Zhoushan, 4-5 December 2017.

4. Pakistans position on the Gulf crisis, The Fourth Annual Gulf Studies Forum The Role of Crisis: Regional and International Dynamics and the Role of the Media, Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies, Doha, 2-4 December 2017.

5. Countering Violent extremism through madrasas in Pakistan, 4th Deakin Roundtable on Religion and Development, Deakin University, Melbourne, 25 October 2017.

6. Impacts of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor on peace and conflict in Pakistan, International Conference on Global Perspectives of One Belt One Road, Deakin University, Melbourne, 15-16 August 2017.

7. Refugee crises in South Asia: Is there a scope for inter-regional cooperation between SAARC and ASEAN?, International Conference Rethinking Governance in an Era of Global Insecurities, Regional Tensions and Rising Nationalism, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 17-19 July 2017.

8. The role of SAARC and the EU for managing refugees in South Asia and beyond, International Conference on Global Migration Governance: Sustainability, Security, and Resilience, The Hague Institute for Global Justice, The Netherlands, 8-9 December 2016.

9. Community-level peacebuilding in Pakistan, National Peace Conference, Sahil and Government of Canada, Pakistan, 11 February 2016.

10. Transforming culture of violence in Pakistan, National Conference on Citizens role in peacebuilding: engagement with public and other allies, Oxfam-Novib, Pakistan, 4 February 2016.

11. The impact of the conflict in Yemen on Pakistans relations with the GCC, Gulf Studies Forum, Qatar, 5-7 December 2015.

12. Contemporary geostrategic environment in Asia Pacific, National Conference on Emerging Geostrategic Landscape in South-West Asia and the Asia Pacific, Strategic Vision Institute and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Pakistan, 5-6 November 2015.