Los Farallones mountains outside of Santiago de Cali, Colombia

Shauna N. Gillooly received her PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine. She is currently an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute for Political Science (ICP) at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Santiago de Chile in Santiago, Chile. She specializes in the fields of International Relations and Comparative Politics, with a focus on conflict studies, peacebuilding, transitional justice, social movements, and political violence. Her work has been supported by American Council of Learned Societies, the Carnegie Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, the American Political Science Association, and the Kugelman Center for Citizen Peacebuilding, among others.