Lia Kent is an Associate Professor/Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) in the College of Asia and the Pacific at ANU. An interdisciplinary peace and conflict studies scholar, Lia's research is interested in the myriad ways in which communities make sense of legacies of state violence and protracted conflict. She has examined these themes through long-term ethnographic research in Timor-Leste (since 2004) and more recent research in Aceh (Indonesia) and Sri Lanka. Lia is especially interested in how local practices of social repair intersect with the state-building and peacebuilding priorities of states and international actors. She has pursued these questions through projects and publications on peacebuilding, state formation, transitional justice, reconciliation, gender justice, memory politics, necro-politics, and missing persons.