Dr Suzanne Francis is an Associate Professor in Conflict Transformation and Peace Studies at the University of Chester. She has worked in academia on three continents during the last two decades, and in the Global South most recently at the University of KwaZulu-Natal where she served as an Academic Leader for the School of Social Sciences. She has contributed to multiple practitioner and high-level forums as a specialist advisor in understanding conflict and ways to build peace, contributing to international peace dialogues as a specialist in conflict transformation, providing training and workshops to high-level professionals; and also in research and practice-based international development. In addition, she has extensive undergraduate teaching and postgraduate supervision experience, and has supervised 24 PhD dissertations to completion. She is also a keen photographer, particularly in conflict and its aftermath. Her research is fieldwork, archival and practice-based particularly in conflict zones, and includes research on violence, conflict transformation; restitutive, reconciliatory and redistributive justice; postcolonial theory; marginalised peoples and indigeneity; and international and radical political economy.