Tamirace Fakhoury is an Associate Professor of International Politics and Conflict at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, USA. Her research focuses on the dilemmas of peace and democratization in post-conflict societies, the politics of refuge and migration in conflict-affected areas, and the role of actors such as the European Union and the United Nations in conflict and cooperation. Before joining Fletcher, she was an Associate Professor of Political Science at Aalborg University, Denmark, and served as the visiting Kuwait Chair at Sciences Po in Paris. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Freiburg, Germany, and has conducted postdoctoral research at the European University Institute in Florence and the University of California, Berkeley.