Landon Hancock is Associate Professor at Kent State University’s School of Peace and Conflict Studies and Senior Fulbright Fellow at Kyung Hee University’s Graduate Institute of Peace Studies. His main area of focus is the role of ethnicity and identity in conflict generation, dynamics, resolution and post-conflict efforts in transitional justice. This is coupled with an interest in grassroots peacebuilding, zones of peace and the role of agency in the success or failure of peacebuilding efforts. He is co-editor (with Christopher Mitchell) of the zones of peace series, Zones of Peace (2007), Local Peacebuilding and National Peace (2012) and Local Peacebuilding and Legitimacy (2018). His articles have appeared in numerous journals including Peacebuilding, National Identities, Ethnopolitics, Peace & Change, and Conflict Resolution Quarterly. His 2017 Peacebuilding article was featured in October 2017’s issue of Peace Science Digest, which selects articles “based on their contribution to the field of Peace Science”. He earned his PhD in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University in 2003.