Aleksandra Zdeb teaches at the Pedagogical University and Jagiellonian University in Kraków. She holds a Ph.D. in law and politics from the University of Graz and carried out post-doctoral research at Queen’s University Belfast on the influence of the third sector on good governance in post-conflict societies. Her papers on post-conflict reconstruction and state-building processes are published in Ethnopolitics, New Eastern Europe, and Swiss Political Science Review.