Devon E. A. Curtis (BA and MA McGill University, PhD in International Relations, LSE) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is also a Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and the MPhil Course Director at Cambridge’s Centre of Africa Studies. Her main research interests and publications deal with international peace-making, governance arrangements after violent conflict, non-state armed movements, and critical perspectives on armed conflict, peace and development. Most of her field work has been in the Great Lakes region of Africa, with a particular interest in the international politics of Burundi. Previously, Devon worked for the Canadian government and the United Nations Staff College, and she has been a consultant for the UK Department for International Development, the Overseas Development Institute, and a Visiting Senior Advisor to the International Peace Institute. She has had fellowships at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University, and at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University.