Alpaslan ÖzerdemProfessor Alpaslan Özerdem is the Dean of the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution and Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at George Mason University. He is the author of seven books, most recently International Pacebuilding: An Introduction (with S.Y. Lee, Routledge, 2015) and the editor of several volumes, including The Routledge Handbook of Turkish Politics (with M. Whiting, Routledge, 2019). He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Online Journal of Conflict Transformation and Security (published by UK think-tank Centre for Strategic Research and Analysis) and a frequent contributor to The Conversation. Read More Read Less