Uday Khanapurkar is an undergraduate student pursuing his B.Sc. in Economics (Hons.) from the Symbiosis School of Economics, Pune, and is an intern at the Chennai Centre for China Studies (C3S). Deeply infatuated by the interconnectedness of the humanities, his aim is to segue into the disciplines of international relations and political science and establish a career in academia therein. His areas of interest are the peace sciences, conflict theory and political economy. It is his opinion that, while the odds may be stacked against peace in the international arena on account of human nature and systemic anarchy, conflict and peace are essentially probabilistic outcomes and that it is, therefore, morally incumbent on humankind to employ the human agency in ensuring the manifestation of peaceful outcomes and to avoid becoming victims of determinism.