Esma Mneina is completing her MA in Political Anthropology at the University of Ottawa, Canada and is pursuing her thesis on global policy, security, and development issues as they manifest in resource conflict in Latin America. Esma is a researcher for INSTEAD in Montreal, Canada, and has worked on policy projects with foreign embassies in Washington, D.C. as well as Ottawa, Canada. http://www.linkedin.com/in/esmamneina