Dr. Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra is the Director of Mahatma Gandhi Center for Nonviolence, Human Rights, and World Peace at Hindu University of America. He holds a doctoral degree from the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Dr. Mahapatra has won several awards and has published extensively, in the form of books, articles and opinion-pieces, on the issues related to international conflicts and peacebuilding.