Teresa Nogueira Pinto obtained her Master Degree in International Relations from the Institute for Political Studies of the Catholic University of Portugal and her Globalization Studies Ph.D. from the Nova University of Lisbon. Her research work is about the processes of power legitimation adopted by personalized, semi-authoritarian and resilient regimes in Sub-Saharan Africa, through a comparison between the case of Zimbabwe (1980-2017) and the case of Rwanda (1994-2017). For her M.A. Thesis, she investigated the two models of justice established in Rwanda after the genocide, the community-based Gacaca courts and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and their impact in the process of reconciliation. Her research interests centre around authoritarianization, extra-electoral dynamics of power legitimation and the role of history and historiography in the construction of narratives of power justification and power contestation.