[3] Waslekar is a signatory to the Normandy Manifesto for World Peace, along with Jody Williams, Mohamed El Baradei, Leymah Gbowee, Denis Mukwege, and philosopher Anthony Grayling.

[citation needed] In the 1980s, Waslekar contributed in essays and features to newspapers such as the Ottawa Citizen, San Jose Mercury News, Hamilton Spectator, and Toledo Blade.

In 1991, he founded the International Centre for Peace Initiatives, the first conflict resolution institution in South Asia, which assisted with diplomatic efforts between India and Pakistan.

Following the September 11 attacks in 2001 and the War on Terror, he facilitated dialogues between Western and Islamic leaders in collaboration with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in the European Parliament [5] and the League of Arab States.

In the early 2000s, Waslekar and Ilmas Futehally led the Strategic Foresight Group to prepare cost-of-conflict models for India-Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the Middle East.

In an article in India's The Economic Times in August 2007 and in the Strategic Foresight Group report on Emerging Issues: 2011–2020 in January 2008, Waslekar warned about the possibility of the collapse of the global financial system.