Sonia Garzon is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, UK. Her current research examines conflict transformation and peacebuilding with a specific focus on nonviolent resistance, dissensus, and contestation to peacebuilding. She is particularly interested in examining resistance to transformative transitional justice and reconciliation processes using feminist theory, intersectionalities, conflict transformation and agonistic theory.

Architect and Lecturer at the Portsmouth School of Architecture. His Ph.D., from the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, National Technical University of Athens, focused on the representation of the politics of urban gentrification in horror films and the notion of fear in cities. He has worked on issues of gender and sexuality in urban space. He teaches architecture, interior design, and LGBT theories on urban space at the University of Portsmouth and the National Technical University of Athens. He has worked as a freelance architect on projects of different scales in various countries, as well as editor in magazines and set designer.

Dr. Ayman El Tarabishy is the deputy chair and a teaching professor in the Department of Management at the George Washing University School of Business. His expertise involves entrepreneurship and the creative, innovative, and humane-focused practices existing within the field. Dr. El Tarabishy now sits as the President & CEO of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB), the oldest and largest non-profit organization across the globe devoted to advancing small business research and practices. The Council stands as a coalition of over a dozen national organizations, being represented in over 190 countries.

Young Jun Choi is Professor, Department of Public Administration, Director of the Institute for Welfare State Research, Yonsei University in South Korea, and Visiting Fellow at the University of Bath. Before joining Yonsei, He was on the faculty at the University of Oxford, the University of Bath, and Korea University. He is currently serving as Chair of East Asian Social Policy Research Network. Also, he is an advisory board member of Presidential Committee on Policy Planning, Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education & Training, and Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs. His research interests include aging and public policy, social investment policy, innovation and social policy, comparative welfare state theories, and East Asian social policy. He has published many articles in international journals including 'Social investment in the knowledge-based economy: new politics and policies' and 'Innovation and welfare: the marriage of an unlikely couple' . His recent book includes Welfare Reform and Social Investment Policy in Europe and East Asia (Policy Press, 2021).