Laura is Director of Organisational Development and Coordinator - Antioquia at Rodeemos el Diálogo (ReD), and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. She holds a PhD in Security, Conflict and Human Rights, and Masters both in Education (Politics and International Development) and Research (Security, Conflict and Justice), all from the University of Bristol, UK. Her research interests lie in conflict transformations, non-violence and peacebuilding, with diverse experience from international research projects to the Colombian Truth Commission and ReD.