Barbara Segaert holds a Master's degree in Arab Philology and Islamic History from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a Postgraduate Diploma in the Social Sciences from the Open University in the UK. Since 2002 she has been scientific coordinator at the University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp where she develops academic programmes on interreligious and intercultural topics. She is co-editor of How to Conquer the Barriers to Intercultural Dialogue (P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2005) and Europe and the Historical Legacies of the Balkans (P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2008).