An article entitled “Why ‘I’ Became a Combatant? A Study of Memoirs Written by Nepali Maoist Combatants” authored by Mr. Khagendra Acharya, Assistant Professor of English at the Humanities and Management Unit, School of Engineering, and Professor Orla Muldoon, Department of Psychology at University of Limerick, Ireland has been published in Terrorism and Political Violence.

The paper analyzes the Maoist combatants’ reasons for their engagement in political violence during ten years of insurgency in Nepal (February 1996 to November 2006).