Arabinda Acharya is Manager Strategic Projects at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research. He was an External Research Associate, York University Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies University of Toronto and a Visiting Research Fellow, Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS) Colombo, Sri Lanka.
His area of research includes Foreign and Security Policy; Asia-Pacific Political and Strategic Affairs; Conflict Studies; Human Security and Terrorism and Political Violence with specialization in terrorist ideology, terrorist financing and maritime terrorism. He has presented in a number of international conferences on regionalism, human security and terrorism issues including on global and regional terrorist threat, maritime terrorism, terrorist financing and ideology.

1.South Asia in the Nuclear Era, Asian Defence and Diplomacy (Kuala Lumpur), Vol. 7, No. 12, (December 2000)
2.Human Security In Asia Pacific: Puzzle, Panacea or Peril? CANCAPS Bulletin No. 27, November 2000 (Co-authored with Amitav Acharya)
3.Shadow Over the Subcontinent: South Asia Goes Nuclear- a Look at Security, George Town Journal of International Affairs; Vol. II, No. 1 (Winter/Spring 2001) (Co-authored with Amitav Acharya)
4.Engaging China In South Asia Harvard Asia Quarterly, Vol. V, No. 3, (Summer 2001)
5.Promoting Human Security in South Asia Through Multilateral Cooperation, Dipankar Banerjee, (ed), SAARC in the 21st Century: Towards a Cooperative Future, (New Delhi, India Research Press, 2002)
6.Human Security in Asia: Conceptual Ambiguities and Common Understandings, Man and Development, (Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development) vol. XXIV No.4, December 2002 (Co-authored with Amitav Acharya)
7.Terrorist Training, IDSS Commentaries (17/2003), 2 May 2003, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, NTU, Singapore
8.Terrorizing Aid Agencies a Nasty Trend: The Straits Times, 25 August 2003
9.APEC Summit: Regionalizing the War on Terror, IDSS Commentaries (38/2003), 3 November 2003, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, NTU, Singapore
10.The Global Terror Threat: Are We Winning or Losing? Pacifying the Pacific: Confronting the Challenges, ISIS, Malaysia, 2004 (Co-authored with Barry Desker)
11.Securing the Vital Infrastructure in Singapore, IDSS Commentaries, October 2004, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, NTU, Singapore
12.Terrorism Outlook, United Nations Association of Singapore, October 2004
13.Targeting Islamist Terrorism in Asia Pacific: An Unending War, Asia Pacific Review, Vol. II, No. 2, November 2004 (Co-authored with Barry Desker)
14.The Second Bush Administration, Priorities and Issues for Asia, UNISCI Discussion Papers, January 2005
15.Conflict and Terrorism in Southern Thailand, Marshall Cavandish Academic, Singapore ( 2005) (Co-authored with Rohan Gunaratna and Sabrina Chua)
16.The Terrorist Training Camps of Al Qaeda, JF Forest, ed., The Making of a Terrorist: Recruitment, Training, and Root Causes, James. (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2005) (Co-authored with Rohan Gunaratna)
17.Anti-Money Laundering/ Counter Financing of Terrorism: New Policy Initiatives, IDSS/PWC joint working paper ( July 2005), Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, NTU, Singapore
18.AFTER LONDON: Securing Public Transport Systems Against Terrorist Attacks, IDSS Commentaries, (42/2005) 12 July 2005 Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, NTU, Singapore
19.Pakistan at the Forefront of the War Against Terrorism, IDSS Commentaries, (64/2005) 14 September 2005 Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Singapore
20.Terrorismo en Asia-Pacifico, (Terrorism in the Asia-Pacific),in Anuario Asia-Pacifico, Case Asia, Fundacion CIDOB, and Real Instituto Elcano, (Italy) 2005 (Co-authored with Amitav Acharya)
21.Terrorism and Regional Security: Deconstructing the Global War on Terror in Asia , Global Terrorism: Genesis, Implications, Remedial and Counter Measures, The Institute of Regional Studies, Islamabad, (2006)
22.Countering the Global Islamist Terrorist Threat, The Korean Journal of Defence Analysis, Vol. XVIII, No. 1, (Spring 2006) (Co-authored with Barry Desker)
23.Thailand, in Derek Reveron and Jeffrey S. Murer eds., Flashpoints in the War on Terrorism, New York, London: Rutledge, (2006) (Co-authored with Rohan Gunaratna)
24.Indonesia in Derek Reveron and Jeffrey S. Murer eds., Flashpoints in the War on Terrorism, New York, London: Rutledge, (2006)
25.Kashmir in the International System in W. Pal Singh Sidhu et al. Eds., Kashmir New Voices, New Approaches, London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, (2006) (Co-authored with Amitav Acharya)
26.India’s Role in Ethnic Crisis in Sri Lanka, in M.B. Munshi ed. The India Doctrine, Dhaka: Bangladesh Research Forum, (2006) (Co-authored with Rohan Gunaratna)
27.India and Southeast Asia in the Age of Terror: Building Partnerships for Peace, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol. 28, No. 2 (2006)
28.Integration of Financial Investigation into Counter-Terrorism Strategy, IDSS Commentaries (84/2006) 17 August 2006, Republished in Business Times, 25 August 2006
29.Countering Financing for Terrorism, IDSS Policy Brief 1/2006 Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, NTU, Singapore (Co-authored with Rohan Gunaratna and Gunawan Husin)
30.Cooperation Issues in the Global War on Terror, Peter Catona, Michael Intriligator and John Sullivan, eds., Countering Terrorism and WMD: Creating a global Counter-terrorism network, London and New York, Routledge, (2006) (Co-authored with Barry Desker)
31.What if Iran is Attacked?, RSIS Commentaries, 16/2007, March 2007, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (Co-authored with Thomas Quiggin)
32.Threats to Good Order, in Ravi Chopra and D. Chakraborty eds., Maritime Dimensions of a New World Order, New Delhi: National Maritime Foundation (2007)
33.Maritime Terrorist Threat in Southeast Asia, in Kwa Chong Guan and John. N. Skogan, eds, Maritime Security in Southeast Asia, London and New York: Routledge, 2007
34.Faint Signals and a New Form of Jihadism: Host Community- Supported Jihadism, RSIS Commentaries, 51/2007, June 2007 S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. (Co-authored with Thomas Quiggin)
35.Terrorist Finance and the Criminal Underground, in Michelle Innes Ed, Denial of Sanctuary, Understanding Terrorist Safe Havens, Praeger, (2007) (Co-authored with Rohan Gunaratna)
36.Terrorism and Transnational Organized Crime in Comparative Perspective, Organized Crime: From Trafficking to Terrorism, Santa Barbara, Denver, Colorado: ABC-CLIO (2007) (Co-authored with Rohan Gunaratna)
37.The Myth of the Second Front: Localizing the ‘War on Terror’ in Southeast Asia, Washington Quarterly, (Autumn 2007) (Co-authored with Amitav Acharya)
38.The Terrorist Threat in Southern Thailand: Jihad or Quest for Justice, Potomac Books Inc, (Forthcoming 2008), (Co-authored with Rohan Gunaratna)