Laura Balbuena holds a BA in Philosophy from the Universidad Catolica of Peru and a MA in Political Science from The New School for Social Research, NY. Ms Balbuena is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the NSSR and has moved back to Peru where she is working on her dissertation “When Terror has a Female Face: Women from the PCP-SL” under the supervision of Professor James E. Miller. She has presented her work on female terrorists in different universities such as ILSTU, Fordham, NSSR and the University of Derby in England.