She received her Masters in Public Health and Ph.D. in medical anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Theidon has conducted activist research in Latin America for over a decade on the politics of violence and reconciliation, and has a longstanding interest for: disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programs for ex-combatants; the politics of post-war reparations; comparative peace processes; human rights and international humanitarian law; as well as truth commissions, transitional justice and reconciliation.