Prof. Jaideep Saikia is a Distinguished Fellow of the Council for Strategic and Defense Research, New Delhi, and holds the Distinguished Chair, Counter Terrorism, at the Center for Internal Security Analysis, India. He is the author or editor of several books, including “Contours”, “Terror Sans Frontiers”, “Terrorism: Patterns of Internationalization”, “Mind over Matter”, “Bangladesh: Treading the Taliban Trail”, “Frontier in Flames”, “Documents on North East India” and “Point of Impact”. “Conflict” is his 19th book and was published on 1 October 2026. 

Jaideep Saikia is also a celebrated poet and a product of the Royal Indian Military College, Dehradun, St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He was am Irregular Warfare Initiative Fellow at West Point, USA and an Expert (North East India) in the National Security Council Secretariat, Government of India.