I am the co-founder of the Open Insitute, where, as a faculty, I teach a course on Critical Epistemology and Methodology and Field Methods and co-direct the Writing and Research Diploma Program.

My research interests include violent conflict and peace, peacebuilding, political economy of natural resources, environmental study, climate change and conflict, and social unrest.

My publications

• “Democratic Authoritarian Environmentalism and Environmental Governance in Nepal,” The Commons, 2025.  
• “Human-Wildlife Conflict Survivors and Unjust Compensation in the Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve,” in (edit.) London, Adhikari and Robertson, Environmental Justice in Nepal Origins, Struggles, and Prospects. Routledge, 2025.
• Nalbo, D. (2024). Toward indigenous methodologies and environmental peacebuilding: A study on water projects in Nepal. Environment and Security, 2(1), 105-120. https://doi.org/10.1177/27538796241231388. 
• “Indigenous thought in a turbulent world.” The Kathmandu Post, 14 October 2025.
• “From Arab Spring to Asian Uprising.” The Kathmandu Post, 18 September 2025.
• “Reassessing Indigenous Knowledge.” The Kathmandu Post, 29 July 2025.
• “From Climate Anxiety to Climate Hope.” The Kathmandu Post, 29 January 2025.
• “Nepal in the New Political Order,” Nepali Times, 19 April 2022.
• “Rethinking Conservation Model.” The Record, 5 November 2021. 
• “Future of Democracy in Asia. The Kathmandu Post, 10 June 2021.
• “Asia’s New Cold War.” Nepali Times, 7 March 2021.