  Braneworld models remain the most promising candidates to address several
important questions in low-energy particle phenomenology and cosmology. The
role of the moduli field(s) and its stabilization is an integral part of this
question. In this work, we show that a 5-dimensional warped braneworld model
with higher curvature gravity in bulk admits de-Sitter and anti de-Sitter
solutions on the branes. The remarkable feature of having a positive vacuum
energy on the visible brane is the presence of a metastable minimum and a
global minimum for the modulus potential. While the metastable minimum leads to
a consistent cosmological model of a bouncing universe, the concomitant
existence of the global minimum provides a vacuum for the modulus to roll down
to stability. Further, this model is shown to be consistent with the swampland
conjecture to qualify as a viable candidate in the low energy description of
string landscape
