Ana V. Martins is doing her PhD in Political Science and at the Catholic University of Portugal (UCP), where she has also been collaborating as a Teaching Assistant in the ‘Contemporary Political Theory’ course. Her background is in Law (BA) and in Governance, Leadership and Democracy Studies (MA). Ana studied Isaiah Berlin’s conception of value-pluralism in her award-winning MA Thesis, researched at the University of Oxford as a visiting student. She is currently focusing on the institutional conditions for coexistence in diverse societies with conflicting identity-based claims within a liberal framework in an interconnected world.