Alex Buskie has an MA in Politics and French from the University of Glasgow. She currently works at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, in Montreal, Canada, where she coordinates a project providing early warning of genocide and mass atrocity crimes, and researches on the Responsibility to Protect and genocide prevention policies. She will be returning to the UK to undertake a Masters in International Relations in September 2012. She has been a Commissioning Editor at e-IR since September 2011.