Saeed Ahmed Rid is an Assistant Professor at National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. He completed a PhD in Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, UK and was a Commonwealth Academic Scholar (2017-18) at South Asian Studies, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford, UK. His most recent article is “Aman ki Asha (a desire for peace): A case study of a people-to-people contacts peacebuilding initiative between India and Pakistan” (2020), in Contemporary South Asia.