Ahsan Y. Chaudhary is a political and constitutional thinker whose work advances a novel “medical approach to peace.” He argues that states, like living organisms, are prone to dysfunction—and that political violence arises not from ideology or identity, but from institutional breakdown. In this framework, constitutions serve as therapeutic instruments: designed to contain conflict, constrain power, and support durable stability across diverse societies.
Raised in a peasant family in rural Pakistan, Ahsan studied, practiced, and taught law in Lahore. He later pursued doctoral training in political science in the United States, only to find that the discipline is ill-equipped to address the structural causes of war and peace. Disillusioned by its conceptual limitations and methodological insularity, he turned toward developing an independent, cross-disciplinary framework—one that integrates legal, political, and economic thought to diagnose institutional dysfunction and design constitutional remedies grounded in reality.
Ahsan is deeply committed to world peace, a vision he advances through the Constitutional Order Institute, an emerging platform for research and reform focused on institutional solutions to political instability and injustice. He also runs Prescriptive Peace, a Substack publication that serves as the Institute’s public-facing magazine—bridging scholarly inquiry and civic engagement through essays on global order, political Islam, democratization, and nuclear stability. His broader writings have appeared in The Diplomat, South Asian Voices, and other academic and policy outlets.
He has presented research at leading forums including the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the International Studies Association (ISA), and the University of Texas School of Law at Austin, among others. His work contributes to a growing global effort to move beyond realism and reaction—toward constitutional models that safeguard peace, dignity, and institutional resilience in an age of deepening crisis.
Ahsan earned an LLB and LLM from the University of the Punjab (Pakistan); a Master’s in International Relations from the University of Bristol (U.K.); and completed doctoral coursework in Political Science at universities in the United States.
