Sumona DasGupta trained as a Political Scientist and is currently an independent writer and researcher based out of New Delhi India. She is senior research Consultant to Women in Security , Conflict Management and Peace (WISCOMP) an initiative based in New Delhi, Guest editor of Peace Prints the South Asian journal of Peacebuilding, and a member of Women Mediators across the Commonwealth. She researches and writes on participatory democracy, gender peace and conflict. She was previously the chair of the International Advisory Group of the International Conflict Research Institute at the University of Ulster from 2010-2016.

Participant in: August 2019 Fellowship: The Arts as a Tool for Peacebuilding