About David Roberts

David Roberts is Senior Lecturer at the University of Ulster in Peace and Conflict Studies and author of the fortcoming book "Liberal Peacebuilding and Global Governance". He is also author of Global Governance and Biopolitics: Regulating Human Security (London: Zed, 2010), which examines how global governance both empowers and lethally restrains human life across the planet and presents effective and simple ways of decreasing global child mortality, based on fieldwork in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. His ongoing research concerns the mismatch between what Liberal peacebuilding gives to postconflict spaces, and what local people would prioritise if they genuinely 'owned' the peacebuilding process.