“I have been studying the interplay between democratization, media and civil conflict in my PhD project since 2012 at the University of Zurich. I was fascinated to learn about the launch of MeCoDEM addressing the role of media in the democratization conflicts and the extent to which my own research is related to it. Thanks to the Doc.Mobility grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation I was able to join MeCoDEM as a visiting student for 6 months. ”