Heather Devere (PhD University of Auckland) was until recently Director of Practice at Te Ao o Rongomaraeroa (National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies) at the University of Otago in Aotearoa New Zealand. Her research in the fields of politics, ethics, and peace and conflict, and friendship studies spans several decades. She writes regularly on the politics of friendship and peace studies. Heather was the founding co-editor of AMITY: The Journal of Friendship Studies (with Graham M. Smith and Preston King) and has edited several books with other scholars that include Friendship Studies: Politics and Practices (2022), The Palgrave Handbook of Positive Peace (2022), Decolonising Peace and Conflict Studies (2022), Peacebuilding and the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples (2017), and The Challenge to Friendship in Modernity (2000).

Keywords: Ethics and politics of friendship, peace and conflict studies