Dr. Lisa Schirch is Senior Research Fellow for the Toda Peace Institute, where she directs the Social Media, Technology and Peacebuilding program. She also co-chairs the Alliance for Peacebuilding working group on Technology and Peacebuilding and is Visiting Scholar in Peace Engineering at George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution. She is the author of 11 books including Designing a Comprehensive Peace Process for Afghanistan and The Ecology of Violent Extremism: Perspectives on Peacebuilding & Human Security. As a practitioner, Schirch has worked on institutional racism in the US for 20 years and has facilitated and participated in the design of national peace processes in Fiji, Afghanistan, Israel/Palestine and several other countries. Schirch’s expertise centers on civil society, just and participatory governance, and social cohesion.