Samantha Gamez is a PhD Fellow at swisspeace and the University of Basel (Switzerland), working as part of the “International Peacemaking in Pursuit of a ‘Good Peace’: Integration or Separation?” project. She completed her Master’s in “Comparative and International Studies” at ETH Zurich (Switzerland), where she also co-authored the African Peace Processes and Peace Observatory datasets. Heavily interested in qualitative and mixed methods, she prefers to pursue research on local conflicts, peacebuilding, mediation, and African contexts. She has also published several book reviews with International Affairs and International Peacekeeping. 

Dr. Julia Palmiano Federer is a Senior Research Fellow with the Ottawa Dialogue at the University of Ottawa. She has held research fellowships at the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich and the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Collaboratory at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership. She is also an Associated Researcher with swisspeace. Her research interests include critical approaches to peace mediation and conflict resolution. Her work can be found in Millennium: Journal of International Studies, International Negotiation, Negotiation Journal, and Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. She is the author of the book, NGOs Mediating Peace: Promoting Inclusion in Myanmar’s Ceasefire Negotiations.