Kirsten Schulze is a senior lecturer in international history at the London School of Economics and Political Science. After receiving her DPhil from Oxford University in 1994, Schulze worked as a lecturer in politics at Queen's University, Belfast. Her current research interests include security sector reform in Indonesia, ethnic conflict and conflict regulation in divided territories, peace processes and normalization of relations and nationalism. She has authored a number of articles and chapters on conflict and conflict resolution in Northern Ireland, the Middle East and Indonesia. Her books include The Jews of Lebanon: Between Coexistence and Conflict (2001) and Israel's Covert Diplomacy in Lebanon (1998). Her academic expertise has also found practical application in the form of consultancy work for the British Embassy in Jakarta, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and others.