My name is Usman Khan, and I hold a PhD in Anthropology from the School of Sociology and Anthropology at Sun Yat-sen University in China. My research focuses on colonial and postcolonial state-society relations, conflict, peace and security studies, border studies, social movements, and the Pashtun and Baloch resistance movements in the peripheries of Pakistan. I have published over a dozen articles in leading international English journals. Additionally, I have received Level 1 training in “Kingian Nonviolence and Conflict Reconciliation” from the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Rhode Island, USA. I am also associated with the Bacha Khan Trust Education Foundation, which promotes peace and nonviolence training in various parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.