Rajendra Senchurey, MPhil, is a dedicated peace practitioner from Nepal currently working as the Programme Manager at the Nepal Peacebuilding Initiative in Kathmandu. He holds an MPhil in International Peace Studies from Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. He has a decade of experiences in the field of interfaith, inter-religious dialogue, nonviolence, conflict resolution, preventing/countering violent extremism, transitional justice, and sustainable peacebuilding. He has worked in these areas under several national and international fellowships including the ones from UNESCO, KAICIID and ICNC. He regularly writes in Nepal’s leading national dailies as a freelance contributor. He is also the Focal Person under NGO Federation Nepal, for SDG 16 Close Group Task Force (Theme: Human Rights and Fundamental Freedom SDG 16.10 (A & B)). As an intellectual from the Dalit community (the so-called “untouchables” that rank at the bottom of the Hindu caste hierarchy), he lives his life with a dual objective: to extirpate caste-based discrimination from Nepal and to promote sustainable peace in turbulent South Asia and beyond.