Eric Sangar is a permanent lecturer in Political Science at Sciences Po Lille, a member of the research unit CERAPS (University of Lille), and an associated researcher at the Marc Bloch Centre, Berlin. In his research he is particularly interested in legitimation discourses of political violence as well as the links between collective memories and foreign policy. He has co-edited the volumes Researching Emotions in International Relations: Methodological Perspectives on the Emotional Turn (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and Memory Fragmentation from Below and Beyond the State: Uses of the Past in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings (Routledge, 2023).