Heather DevereHeather Devere’s research in the fields of politics, ethics, peace and conflict, and friendship studies spans several decades. Until recently she was Director of Practice at Te Ao o Rongomaraeroa (National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies) at th University of Otago in Aotearoa New Zealand. She writes regularly on the politics of friendship, is founding co-editor of AMITY: The Journal of Friendship Studies (with Graham M. Smith and Preston King) and has edited several books with other scholars that include The Palgrave Handbook of Positive Peace (2022), Decolonising Peace and Conflict Studies (2022), Peacebuilding and the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples (2017), and The Challenge to Friendship in Modernity (2000). Read More Read Less