Anna K. Jarstad is Associate Professor at the Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden. Together with Timothy D. Sisk she has edited From War to Democracy: Dilemmas of Peacebuilding (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Her research covers conflict management in ethnically divided societies and the nexus of democratisation and peacebuilding in war-torn societies, especially in Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cyprus, Kosovo, Macedonia, New Zealand, and South Africa.