Arnim Langer is Director of the Centre for Research on Peace and Development (CRPD), Associate Professor of International Relations and Chair Holder of the UNESCO Chair in Building Sustainable Peace at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven). He is further Research Associate at the Oxford Department of International Development (ODID) at the University of Oxford and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth, Australia. He was recently awarded a highly prestigious Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, which he will take up from September 2017 at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. He has published extensively on issues of ethnicity, inequality and conflict, including in a range of top journals such as Political Analysis, World Development, Foreign Affairs and Social Indicators Research.