Bert Ingelaere is lecturer at the Institute of Development Policy (IOB), University of Antwerp, Belgium. His research focuses on the legacy of mass violence, mobility and the process of knowledge construction. He has undertaken over 40 months of fieldwork in Africa's Great Lakes region. He studied philosophy as well as social and cultural anthropology (KULeuven), holds a PhD in development studies (University of Antwerp) and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders (FWO) and the Program on Order, Conflict and Violence (OCV), Yale University. He is the co-editor of Genocide, Risk and Resilience and author of Inside Rwanda's Gacaca Courts.