Abhijit Iyer-Mitra is a Research Officer at the Institute of Peace & Conflict Studies. After his B.Com from the University of Madras he pursued a career in the corporate world before turning to academia.   He holds a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Political & Social Inquiry at Monash University, and is pursuing his PhD. He served as research assistant on projects ranging from state failure to "Aid in The War Zone" all under the aegis of the Centre For Muslim Minorities & Islam Policy Studies at Monash (2007-2010).  His primary research at IPCS is into limited wars and nuclear thresholds but his interests include counterintuitive solutions, assymetricity and equivalence, military transformation, defence planning, procurement and offsets, infrastructure, governance and Historical Patterns of Conflict in Democracy.  His spare time is spent travelling  and he holds  a dive master’s licence as well as a private pilot’s licence.