Melanie Hussak is a postdoctoral researcher at the Peace Institute Freiburg at the Pr. University of Applied Sciences, where she is engaged in research, lecturing in the MA Peace Education and in third mission activities. From 2022 to 2023 she was a research associate at the University of Haifa and from 2015 to 2022 at the Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate/RPTU. In 2015, she was a fellow at the Austrian Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution. Dr. Hussak studied political science and economics at the University of Vienna and completed a postgraduate degree in “Interdisciplinary Conflict Analysis and Conflict Transformation” at the University of Basel. She completed her Ph.D. at RPTU on peace conceptions and peace initiatives of indigenous communities in the context of colonization and ongoing coloniality.