The report argued that information was a basic need in crisis response[3] and was described as ground-breaking[4] and a "turning point for the use of mobile and ICT in humanitarian crises and the protection of human rights".
While at CIC, Chandran ran the Afghanistan Reconstruction Program, working for Barnett Rubin before his appointment as Senior Advisor to Richard Holbrooke.
[9] Chandran was also the lead author of Recovering From War[10] a report commissioned by the UK Government ahead of its 20 May 2008 thematic[11] debate[12] in the United Nations Security Council.
Recovering from War defined three primary weaknesses in the international response to conflict: These findings formed the basis of then Prime Minister Gordon Brown's address to the Security Council, and the subsequent debate.
Chandran currently serves on the Expert Advisory Group of the Partnership for Democratic Governance[17] for whom he wrote Statebuilding and Government Consolidation in Situations of Fragility,[18] and the Consortium Advisory Group for DfID's Secure livelihoods research consortium.