Dr. Lior Lehrs is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations and The Swiss Center for Conflict Research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests include conflicts, peacemaking, diplomacy and mediation, and he works on various conflict areas, such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Northern Ireland, Cyprus and the Balkans. The journals in which he has published include International Studies Quarterly, International Affairs, Cooperation and Conflict, and Peacebuilding, and his book Unofficial Peace Diplomacy, was published in 2022 by Manchester University Press. Dr. Lehrs was a Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University, and a visiting scholar at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.