Buddhika Jayamaha

Buddhika Jayamaha is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at Northwestern University. Since 2005, he has conducted extensive fieldwork in the Middle East and Africa about dynamics of rebel cohesion in collapsed states. Buddhika has published pieces about conflict in Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, in the New York Times, CTC Sentinel, and Small Wars Journal. He is a former sergeant and veteran of the 82nd Airborne Division, U.S. Army, and authored Nightcap at Dawn: American Soldiers' Counterinsurgency in Iraq.