Pedro Rosa Mendes is an SSR officer with DCAF’s International Security Sector Advisory Team, supporting field advice, training and developing tools and guidance for SSR. He has reported and researched for over two decades on human security issues, with an emphasis on conflict resources, war economies and transitional justice. He is also an award-winning author, with reportage, fiction and essays published in several languages. Pedro Rosa Mendes holds a degree in law from the University of Coimbra, a master’s in history from the EHESS in Paris and a CAS in civilian peacebuilding from the University of Basel and Swisspeace.