Professor Helen Scanlon is the convenor of the Justice and Transformation Programme at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa. She works as both a practitioner and academic on transitional justice and has published widely on the topics of transitional justice, gender, and peacebuilding. Her most recent work includes Gender, Transitional Justice and Memorial Arts: Global Perspectives on Commemoration and Mobilization (London: Routledge, 2021) co-edited with Jelke Boesten.