Medha Chaturvedi is a Senior Research Officer with the Centre for Internal and Regional Security (IReS) at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS). Her areas of interest include conflict resolution, internal security and indigenous movements in South and Southeast Asia and and traditional and non-traditional security challenges. She is currently working on Naxalism as a Threat to Internal security and its Probable Solutions and Internal Developments and the Process of Democratisation in Myanmar. She has an MA in Political Science & International Relations from Delhi University; PG Diploma in Journalism and Mass Communication from Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai and B.Com in International Economics from Symbiosis College, Pune University. She worked as a journalist covering organised crime in reputed publications like Mid Day, Mumbai and Times of India, New Delhi for about five years before joining the IPCS. Besides English and Hindi, she can converse in Spanish, basic Burmese, Marathi and Bengali. She is also a freelance contributor to the Wall Street Journal for their blog, India Real Time.