Christina Woolner is currently Fellow and Lecturer at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Hargeisa (Somaliland), and regularly works as an instructor in the Global Studies Department at Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, Canada). She holds a B.A. in Global Studies and Religion & Culture from Wilfrid Laurier University, and an M.A. in International Peace Studies from the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.