Lyn Snodgrass has an Honours (Psychology), MA (Conflict Resolution) and DPhil (Conflict Transformation and Management). Her research, transdisciplinary at the interstices of Politics, Psychology and Conflict Resolution, interrogates deep-rooted, intractable conflict. Her current focus is the role of collective emotion (hate and humiliation) and communal memory in the manifestations of violence. As scholar-practitioner she specialises in conflict management interventions, training in conciliation, mediation, negotiation and conflict resolution systems design with an emphasis on Africa.