Dr. Paul Stubbs is a British sociologist who combines research, consultancy and activism. He has lived and worked in Croatia since 1993. His main interests include: social development and peacebuilding, civil society, social policy and social exclusion in post-Yugoslav countries. Paul Stubbs has conducted a series of external evaluations for DRPPD in Slovenia, Care Intrenational, Save the Children (UK), DfID, Youth Center B-H, Human Rights Office B-H, QPSW, UNICEF and UNDP. He is a member of a research team on Globalism and Social Policy at the University of Sheffield, UK and STAKES, Helsinki, Finland. Currently he is focused on the planning and implementation of partnerships in the social sector in Croatia, B-H and Serbia. In his more recent articles, Stubbs researches relationship between local memories and global consultancy and advice regimes from an anthropological perspective. His cutting-edge research work in the area of peacebuilding and social policy in the post-Yugoslav context and his superb mentoring competence make Stubbs an ideal mentor of this research project.