Dr Jessica Di Salvatore is Associate Professor in Political Science and Peace Studies in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. She received a PhD in Political Science from the University of Amsterdam (2017). She was British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford (Department of Politics and International Relations), and associate member at the Nuffield College. The core of her current research agenda concerns the political, economic and social impact of UN peace operations and their contribution to state-building and post-conflict development. Her work has been published in, among others, the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Development Economics, The Journal of Law and Economics, and British Journal of Political Science.