Dr. Gwen Burnyeat is Junior Research Fellow in Anthropology at Merton College, University of Oxford, researching peace, politics and polarisation in Colombia. She’s got a PhD in anthropology from UCL and MPhil in anthropology from National University of Colombia. She is member of peacebuilding organisation Embrace Dialogue (ReD) and co-founder and coordinator of the Laboratory for the Anthropology of the State in Colombia.

Gwen is author of "Chocolate, Politics and Peace-Building: An Ethnography of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, Colombia" (Palgrave Macmillan 2018) and director of award-winning documentary, "Chocolate of Peace" (2016). Her new forthcoming book is titled: "The Face of Peace: Government Pedagogy amidst Disinformation in Colombia" being published by University of Chicago Press in 2022.

Twitter handle: @GwenBurnyeat

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