Veronica Lion is completing her Ph.D. at the Department of Gender Studies at Bar Ilan University on current women-led peace movements in Israel, funded by the Presidential Doctoral Fellowship of Excellence, supervised by Prof. Orna Sasson-Levy and Dr. Gilly Hartal. She holds a BA in Philosophy and an MA in Gender Studies from the University of Vienna. For her Ph.D. Veronica received the 2023 Prize from the Walter Lebach Institute for the Study of Jewish-Arab Coexistence, and the Bar Siman Tov Prize for research in the field of Peace and the Israeli-Arab Conflict by the Israeli Association for International Studies. She published two articles, including “Between Peripherality and Privilege: ‘Women Wage Peace’ as a Case Study of Intersectionality Practices in Women’s Movements’, Social Movements (2024) and “‘Peace can only come wrapped in the Israeli flag.’ - A new framing for a new women’s peace movement”, Mobilization (forthcoming). As a Sophie Davis Post-Doctoral Fellow, Veronica will conduct a comparative analysis of gendered social movement responses to external political transformations, such as large-scale national protests or war including the 2023 Pro-Democracy protests and the Israel-Hamas war following October 7th.