Berit Bliesemann de Guevara is Professor of International Politics and Co-Founder of the Centre for the International Politics of Knowledge at Aberystwyth University. She has been the principal investigator and co-investigator of projects studying the role of knowledge and expertise in and after violent conflict in Colombia and Myanmar and of international research networks on knowledge in conflict, funded by UK and German research councils.
Katarzyna Kaczmarska is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests centre on knowledge construction among scholars and practitioners of international politics, the theory and practice of academic freedom, and post-Soviet politics, as well as the ways in which socio-political contexts influence academic knowledge-making and use. She is the author of Making Global Knowledge in Local Contexts (Routledge, 2020).
Xymena Kurowska is Associate Professor in International Relations at Central European University in Vienna. She received her doctorate in political and social sciences from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and works within International Political Sociology, using social and security theory, psychosocial and anthropological approaches, and relational and interpretive methodologies.
Birgit Poopuu is Associate Professor of International Relations and co-director of the Central and Eastern European Security Hub (CEESHub) at Tallinn University's School of Governance, Law, and Society. Her research is curious about the role of radical and nonviolent knowledge and experience within international politics, with a focus on feminist and decolonial approaches to peace and conflict studies. She is the Principal Investigator of the European Horizon Twinning grant "A critical relational perspective on peace & security in CEE".
Andrea Warnecke is Assistant Professor in History and International Studies at Leiden University's Institute for History. She holds a PhD in political and social sciences from the European University Institute, Florence. Her research on the practices of international organizations in peace and conflict is informed by several years of experience as a senior researcher and consultant on conflict, peacebuilding, and migration in think tanks, NGOs, and on behalf of government agencies and international organizations.