a Docent and a Senior Research Fellow at the Tampere Peace Research Institute (Tampere University, Finland). Her main research interests include conflict-generated diaspora politics, gender and conflicts, as well as the multiple entanglements between conflict, violence and peace. She is currently in charge of the Academy of Finland Project “Diasporas and Transportation of Homeland Conflicts: Inter-group Dynamics and Host Country Responses” (2019-2023).