Timea Spitka received her Ph.D. from Ben Gurion University with a focus on intervention in violent conflicts, and her M.A. from the University of Toronto in Russian and East European Studies. As a Sophie Davis Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender, International Conflict Resolution and Peace, her current research is focused on Gender and Responsibility to Protect (R2P) civilians in the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict. Her past research has focused on intervention in violent conflicts, conflict resolution, international mediation, group identity, and gender. Her book, International Intervention, Identity and Conflict Transformation: Bridges and Walls between Groups, will be published by Routledge in January 2016. Dr. Spitka has taught classes in International Mediation, Conflict Resolution, American Foreign Policy, Gender and International Intervention. She has also worked for several international organizations including for the United Nations and Oxfam, and as a journalist.