Kerstin Tomiak is a postdoctoral fellow at the Davis Institute for International Relations and the GLOCAL-program. Her research interests include practices and processes of military and humanitarian interventions and external statebuilding in countries of the global South. She received her PhD from Cardiff University, UK and is currently writing a research monograph on media development campaigns in South Sudan. Kerstin has worked as a media specialist, spokesperson and project coordinator for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Afghanistan and several organizations in South Sudan.