Katharine Fortin is Associate Professor at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights, Utrecht University and a researcher at the Montaigne Centre for the Rule of Law and Administration of Justice. She teaches international humanitarian law, international human rights law and is the founder and co-editor of the Armed Groups and International Law blog. Her book The Accountability of Armed Groups under Human Rights Law (OUP 2017) won the Lieber Prize in 2018. In 2019, she was awarded a NWO Veni grant for a project to explore civilian agency, armed groups and international law. She is a Co-Investigator on the Beyond Compliance Consortium and a fellow of the Centre on Armed Groups. 

Dr Florian Weigand is the Co-Director of the Centre on Armed Groups and a Research Associate at the London School of Economics (LSE). He has published widely on conflict zones, borderlands and other complex environments, how they function and are governed. Florian is the author of Waiting for Dignity: Legitimacy and Authority in Afghanistan (Columbia University Press, 2022) and Conflict and Transnational Crime: Borders, Bullets & Business in Southeast Asia (Edward Elgar, 2020). He also is the co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Smuggling (Routledge, 2022).