Juline Beaujouan received her Ph.D from Durham University where she was awarded the al-Sabah doctoral fellowship and acted as a member of the AHRC’s Open World Research Initiative (OWRI). She then joined the Political Settlements Research Programme (PSRP), based at the University of Edinburgh, where she researches local conflict management and trust-building in diversity, mainly in Iraq, Lebanon and Syria. Juline is the co-editor and contributor to the volume "Syrian Crisis, Syrian Refugees - Voices from Jordan and Lebanon", and co-author of "Islam, IS and the Fragmented State: The Challenges of Political Islam in the MENA Region".