Cristiana Carletti is Associate Professor of International Public Law at Roma Tre University/Department of Political Sciences. She has had several professorship assignments in Universities and Research Centres, and she leaded several national and international research projects in the domain of international law. She is also legal expert at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, member of the IDLO Board of Advisers and Chair of the Civil Society Advisory Panel on WPS at NATO. Among her main fields of study and research there are inter alia international development law, peace and security/peace agreements and post-conflict, protection of human rights/children rights.