Rebecca Richards is a Research Fellow with the Richardson Institute at Lancaster University. She has also lectured at the University of Bristol, the University of East Anglia, the University of the West of England, and was a Research Fellow at the Somaliland Academy for Peace and Development in Hargeisa. Her research focuses on critical understandings of technocratic state-building and conceptualizations of the state. She has also published on the process of post-conflict state-building in Somaliland and is the author of Understanding State-building: Traditional Governance and the Modern State in Somaliland (Ashgate 2014). (drrebeccarichards@gmail.com)
