Aleksandra Zdeb, an Assistant Professor at the Pedagogical University of Krakow. She holds a PhD from the University of Graz (PhD in Law and Politics) and spent two years as a post-doc at Queen’s University Belfast, where she worked on the topics of excluded groups and the impact of the third sector on good governance in post-conflict societies. She has published articles on post-conflict reconstruction and state-building processes in journals such as Ethnopolitics, Nationalities Papers, New Eastern Europe, Representation, and Swiss Political Science Review.