Chiranjibi Bhandari is an Assistant Professor at the Central Department of Conflict, Peace and Development Studies, and Young Leaders Neighbourhood First Fellow at St. Stephen's College, New Delhi in the year 2022. As a remarkable contribution to the nation, Bhandari served in Nepal's peace process as an operation officer, especially in terms of the management of arms and ex-combatants in Nepal along with the integration and social reintegration phase. He has more than a decade of experience in various peace-building initiatives and research work led by the government of Nepal, civil society actors, and the university.

Bhandari has an M.A. degree in Conflict, Peace, and Development Studies and a post-graduate Diploma in Social Sciences and Humanities. Apart from a formal degree, Bhandari attended a number of conflict transformation and peace-building programs. Some of the widely recognized programs, he attended are Comprehensive Crisis Management course at Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii. Humanitarian Response and Post-conflict reconstruction and recovery at Brown University, Rhode Island, USA, and Civil Resistance and nonviolent conflict at Tufts University, Boston, and Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding at SIT Graduate Institute and Summer Institute for Teaching Peace in 21st Century at Kroc Institute, Notre Dame University. 

Bhandari served as a guest speaker and facilitator in various peace-building and leadership programs in the United States, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, and Nepal. Bhandari's interests and expertise include dialogue, negotiation, post-conflict peacebuilding, security sector reform, nonviolent communication, and ethical leadership. 

Bhandari contributed a significant number of research articles and book chapters in the areas of conflict management, security, and peacebuilding in Nepal.

1. 'Reflection on Nepal's Homegrown and Domestically Led Process'. 2021. The Shivapuri; Professional Journal of Army Command and Staff College, Shivapuri. Vol. XXII.

2. Review article, Intelligence in the National Security Enterprise: An Introduction: By Roger Z. George. 2021. Journal of APF Command and Staff College, 4(1), 161-166.

3. 'Nonviolent Communication and Its Implication in Our Everyday Life'. September 2020. PENN Bulletin. Vol. 4, Year 2020.

4. Co-Author, Discourse of Civil Military Relations in Nepal. 2020 Unity Journal. Vol 1, Year 1.

5. "Social Dialogue: A Tool of Social Reintegration and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in Nepal". May 2019. Asian Journal of Peacebuilding Vol. 7 No. 1 (2019): 143-16.

6. "Conflict and Peace Studies: Its Needs and Significance in Nepal (Dwanda ra Shanti Adhayan: Nepalmaa Yasako Awashyakta ra Auchityataa)", Siphahi Annual 2075. Year 51, Issue 52. Kathmandu: Nepal Army.

7. Co-Author, "Everyday Peace Indicators in Chitwan", Armed Police Force Command and Staff College, Kathmandu (February 2019).

8. Co-Author, "Guerrilla Trail: A Tourism Product in Maoist Rebels footsteps", Journal of Tourism, Volume XIX, No. 1, 2018 (August 2018).

9. Co-Author, book chapter "Maoist Trauma" in Nepal: A Country in Transition (edited volume) by Dr. Dwarika Nath Dhungel and Dr. Madan Kumar Dahal, Rupa Publication (June 2018).

10. Co-Author, research article "Everyday Key Indicators of Peace: Findings from an Eight-country Exploration" online Published by Future Generations University. 2018.

11. Co-Author, Everyday Key Indicators of Peace: Findings from an Eight-country Exploration. 2017. Future Generation University.

12. People's Liberation Army Post- 2006 Integration, rehabilitation or retirement? "Two steps forward, one step back: The Nepal Peace Process" published by Conciliation Resources: Accord 26, London 2017.

13. Book Chapter, 'Social Reality of War and Peace: Expectation and Realities of Female ex-combatants in Nepal'. (2016). Nepal Transition to Peace: A Decade of the Comprehensive Peace Accord 2006-2016. Kathmandu: Nepal.

14. Role of Track III Actors in post-conflict, peacebuilding in Nepal, Shantidut Smarika; published by Office of Local Peace Committee, Sindhuli (2015).

15. "Reintegration of Maoist Ex-Combatants in Nepal, “Economic & Political Weekly” India: Mumbai (Vol - No. 9, February 28, 2015).

16. Community Mediation in Nepal: Actors and Approaches, Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany: 2012 (Master's Thesis).