Fernanda Alves is an Assistant Professor in International Relations at the Faculty of Law, Lusíada University (Porto, Portugal), a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra CES/UC and is currently pursuing a postgraduate specialization in Collective Memory, Human Rights and Resistances at CLACSO (Consejo Latinoamaericano de Ciencias Sociales). PhD in International Relations from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, with the thesis Memory matter(s): Assembling memorials in post-genocide Rwanda. She is also a former Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science/Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University (2010) and Visiting Researcher at the Center for African Studies at the University of California, Berkeley (2014-2015). Editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Cadernos de Relações Internacionais (IRI/PUC-Rio), member of the International Studies Association (ISA), Memory Studies Association (MSA), African Studies Association (ASA) and Brazilian Association of International Relations (ABRI). Her current research interests focus on gender and security studies; sexual abuse and exploitation in peacekeeping operations; sexual violence as a weapon of war; Women, Peace and Security agenda; identity/difference and genocide; migrants, refugees and forced displaced persons; transitional justice; memorialization and transgenerational memory; affect and emotions in International Relations; storytelling and autoethnography; Assemblage theory and Actor-Network theory (ANT).