Nina Wilén is Director for the Africa Program at the Egmont Institute for International Relations and Assistant Professor in Political Science at Lund University. Prior to taking up these posts, she was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB); Antwerp University and the Royal Military Academy in Belgium. She was a Visiting Researcher at Stellenbosch University in 2015 and at Lund University in 2017. She has also been a lecturer at Sciences Po, Paris. Her research interests include conflict resolution and peace processes and more specifically the role of gender and the military in peace processes. She has published extensively on these themes in a range of international journals such as Gender, Work and Organization, Third World Quarterly and International Peacekeeping. She is the author of the book: Justifying Interventions in Africa: (De) Stabilizing Sovereignty in Liberia, Burundi and the Congo. Nina is the Editor-in-Chief for International Peacekeeping since January 2020. In 2018 she was appointed a PRIO Global Fellow.