Bernardo Venturi is Associate Fellow at the International Affairs Institute (IAI), where he focuses on Africa, civilian crisis management, EU external relations, peacebuilding, and development. Bernardo Venturi is also Director and Co-Founder of the Agency for Peacebuilding (AP). He has 16 years of experience as a scholar and a practitioner, publishing extensively on peacebuilding, security, Africa affairs, and European Union foreign policy. He consults for international organizations and NGOs and he lectures in several MA courses and international training programmes. Bernardo obtained his PhD in 2009 from the University of Bologna, where he also held a post-doctoral research fellowship. Periods of study and research led him to the Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, to the Moldova State University, to the Oslo’s Peace Research Institute (PRIO) in Norway, to the United States Institute for Peace (USIP) and to the Sussex University in the UK.