Marko Lehti is a Research Director of Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI) and an Academic Director of master’s programme in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research (PEACE) both at Tampere University, Finland. Lehti’s current research on peace mediation and peace building focuses on agonistic peace building, private peacemaking actors and Nordic peace. He has also published on crisis of multilateralism and changing global order. Furthermore, his research has dealt transnational encounters and identifications and among others in the Baltic countries, the South Caucasus, and the Balkans. His latest books are “Contestations of Liberal Order. The West in Crisis?” (Palgrave 2020) and “The Era of Private Peacemakers. A New Dialogic Approach to Mediation” (Palgrave 2019). His forthcoming book with Christopher Browning and Johan Strang is “Nordic Peace Revisited” (Routledge 2024).