I am a PhD Candidate in Political Science at Yale University.  I study political violence and its micro-level dynamics in post-conflict environments.  My research focuses on former resistance combatants, the links between international intervention and liberation movements, and their consequences on peacebuilding and postwar politics.  In my dissertation I use post-WWII Italy as the main case study with a view at extending the findings to contemporary cases, especially post-Gaddafi Libya.  The Social Science Research Council and the McMillan Center at Yale University are currently supporting my dissertation fieldwork (one-year archival research in Italy).  Before the PhD, I worked for four years at the United Nations (UN) in Geneva, New York, and Timor-Leste on conflict prevention, post-conflict peacebuilding, and human rights.  Before specializing in conflict studies, I focused on international development, with a Masters at the Johns Hopkins University (SAIS) in Washington DC, post-graduate research on pro-poor growth and anti-cyclical fiscal policies at the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago de Chile, and a traineeship on aid-effectiveness at the European Commission in Brussels.  I conducted my undergraduate studies in Philosophy and Epistemology in Italy and Germany.  My volunteer positions included NGOs in Washington DC and Ecuador, a refugee camp in Croatia, and a mobile soup-kitchen for homeless in New York City.