Ms. Wardah Irum

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  •   Department of International Relations
  •   Office: +92-51-9265100
  •   wardah.irum@numl.edu.pk

Ms. Wardah Irum

Lecturer

M.Phil. International Relations

Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad

M.Sc. International Relations

Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 

Bachelors of Arts (English Literature and psychology)

University of The Punjab 

Currently working as lecturer at NUML, Islamabad

Worked as visiting faculty at Peshawar university from 2019-2020

Team member at Aaghaz-e-Dosti | An Indo-Pakistan civil society friendship initiative, https://aaghazedosti.wordpress.com/) (2014-present)

  • Work as a mentor for Aaghaz-e-Dosti’s peace internship program and teach conflict and conflict resolution and peace studies to Indian interns

Worked as a Research assistant at Institute for Strategic Studies, Research and Analysis (March-July 2014)

  • Responsibilities included writing research papers and articles, monographs, report writing and documentation
  • Planning and organizing seminars, conferences and in-house discussions

Co-authored a chapter ‘Understating Pakistani perspective in the prism of Pakistan-India relations’ in an Indian book Ed. by Amit Ranjan. Manuscript submitted for publication to Palgrave-Springer. More info at: https://www.springer.com/in/book/9789811320194

Co-authored an article ‘Politics of ethnicity and the Kurdish quagmire’ for Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs (BILIA)

Feminism and foreign policy

Peace and conflict studies

International Political economy

International politics of development

Theories of IR

Education

M.Phil. International Relations

Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad

M.Sc. International Relations

Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 

Bachelors of Arts (English Literature and psychology)

University of The Punjab 

Experience

Currently working as lecturer at NUML, Islamabad

Worked as visiting faculty at Peshawar university from 2019-2020

Team member at Aaghaz-e-Dosti | An Indo-Pakistan civil society friendship initiative, https://aaghazedosti.wordpress.com/) (2014-present)

  • Work as a mentor for Aaghaz-e-Dosti’s peace internship program and teach conflict and conflict resolution and peace studies to Indian interns

Worked as a Research assistant at Institute for Strategic Studies, Research and Analysis (March-July 2014)

  • Responsibilities included writing research papers and articles, monographs, report writing and documentation
  • Planning and organizing seminars, conferences and in-house discussions

Publications

Co-authored a chapter ‘Understating Pakistani perspective in the prism of Pakistan-India relations’ in an Indian book Ed. by Amit Ranjan. Manuscript submitted for publication to Palgrave-Springer. More info at: https://www.springer.com/in/book/9789811320194

Co-authored an article ‘Politics of ethnicity and the Kurdish quagmire’ for Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs (BILIA)

Interests

Feminism and foreign policy

Peace and conflict studies

International Political economy

International politics of development

Theories of IR