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Dr. Vijay Khare is Professor & Head, Department of Defence and
Strategic Studies (DDSS), Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU). He
was awarded Partial Fellowship by the United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan.
Dr. Khare was selected for the United Nations Short Course on ‘Hologrammatic
Terrorism’ United Nations, Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute,
University of Rome, Italy. He completed Executive Leadership Program and
Advanced Mediation and Peacemaking at the University of London, UK.
Dr. Khare received his Post Doctoral
Fellowship from the University Grants Commission (UGC), University of Pune and
Social Scientist award for the research work under the Indo-French Social
Scientist Exchange Programme at the Foundation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme,
Paris. US State Department invited Dr. Khare under the International Visitors
programme to attend the ‘US Multilateral Diplomacy’ seminar. He also completed
“Academy Leadership Academy” programme at the Center for the Study of Higher
Education , Penn State University, USA. Dr. Khare was awarded the Fulbright
–Nehru Fellowship and Erasmus Fellow by the European Commission.
As the Director of the International Centre, Dr. Khare provides excellent
leadership to all international engagements. Under his dynamic leadership,
collaborations have been extended with renowned universities. He is engaged in
a number of national and international projects and actively involved in
European Commission funded projects. He was instrumental in completing more
than 12 international projects, namely, Erasmus Mundus, Erasmus +,
EXPERTS4ASIA, Experts Sustain, EMINTE, EUPHRATES, Euro Culture, EXPERTS I, II,
III, Strong Ties, INDIA4EU, Lund Lot 13 (EMECW), Erasmus Mundus External
Cooperation Window and EuriIndia. Presently, Dr. Khare is engaged in two
Capacity Building Higher Education projects, namely, Tuning India (T-India)
Project, Partner countries: EU, Spain, Netherlands, Ireland, Italy, Belgium and
Social Innovation for Local Indian and Israeli Communities and Graduate
Entrepreneurs (SILICE) with four partner universities from Croatia, Germany,
Portugal and the UK; five partner universities from Israel and five partner
universities from India. Dr. Khare introduced three new Post-Graduate Diplomas
at DDSS in Disaster Management & National Security; Defence Analyst &
National Security and Counter-terrorism Studies. Considering his dedication to
the department, SPPU conferred the Best Department Award -2019 to DDSS. He
holds a number of academic and administrative posts, including Dean, Faculty of
Humanities.
His areas of expertise are international relations, national security,
non-traditional security, terrorism and counter-terrorism, peace and conflict
resolution, human rights and internationalization of higher education.