Antoon Vrints (1978) is associate professor at the Department of History (Research Unit Social History after 1750) of Ghent University. He is specialized in the history of conflict regulation and the social history of the First World War. He recently published on these topics following monographs: De overlevenden. De Belgische oud-strijders tijdens het interbellum (2018) and The Theatre of the Street Public Violence in Antwerp During the First Half of the Twentieth Century (2019) Antoon Vrints is member of t )he editorial board of Stadsgeschiedenis, TSEG and Wetenschappelijke Tijdingen.