Peace A. Medie is a Senior Lecturer in Gender and International Politics at the University of Bristol. Her research centers on the dynamics of violence during and after conflict and the efforts that state and non-state actors make to address this violence. Her book, 'Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence against Women in Africa', will be published by Oxford University Press. Her research has been supported by grants from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation and the Social Science Research Council and her findings have been published in African Affairs, International Studies Review, Politics & Gender, and the European Journal of Politics and Gender. Peace’s work has won several awards, including the 2012-2013 African Author Prize and she is a co-editor of African Affairs, the top-ranked Area Studies journal. She is also a Research Fellow at LECIAD, University of Ghana and a 2015 - 2017  Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellow.

Peace is also a short story writer and a novelist. Her short stories have appeared in Transition, Slice, Four Way Review, and elsewhere and her debut novel will be published by Algonquin Books. 

She earned a BA in Geography and Resource Development from the University of Ghana, an MA in International Studies from Ohio University, and a PhD in Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh.  She was a Dissertation Fellow in the African and African Diaspora Studies Program at Boston College. 
 

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