Soumya Awasthi is a Consultant with the Tony Blair Foundation. Previously she was an Associate Fellow at the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), New Delhi. Earlier, she has worked with Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence and Strategic Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi. She has also worked as a Fellow at Centre for Armed Forces Historical Research (CAFHR) in United Service Institution, New Delhi and Centre for United Nations Peacekeeping Organization, New Delhi. Her research interests include Counter Terrorism, De-radicalization, South Asian strategic studies, India’s defence and strategic policy, and Afghanistan. She is particularly interested in the Deoband School of Islam in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Her PhD is from the Centre for International Politics, Organization, and Disarmament (CIPOD) at School of International Studies (SIS) in Jawaharlal Nehru University on the subject ‘Role of Religious Discourse in Regional and Global Geopolitics: Case Study of Deoband Philosophy in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan’. She has completed her MPhil on the topic ‘Defence Budget of India from 1947 till 2015: A Trend Analysis’ in the Department of Defence and Strategic Studies at the Savitribai Phule Pune University, Maharashtra. Her work and views have been published in several national and international forums.