Management and teaching staff

Teaching staff

Roberto Luna Salvador Roberto Luna Salvador is lecturer of Conflictology at the Open University of Catalonia (Humanitarian Cooperation, Peace and Sustainability Area). He has supervised several projects in different Master and Postgraduate programs and authored papers on social and politic conflicts. His main academic interests are social and labour relations. Roberto’s work experience includes immigration, racism, development and Spanish interior and justice matters. He also worked in international private consultancy.

Eric George Eric George has a European Doctorate in International Peace, Conflict and Development Studies from the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló, where he teaches in the MA in International Peace, Conflict and Development Studies and in the English Studies Department.

Tom Woodhouse Professor Tom Woodhouse is the Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution within the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford. The Centre has a strong research and teaching profile around conflict analysis, peacekeeping, peacebuilding and the development of conflict theory related to international conflict. He directs the Centre’s E-Learning Programme.

Vicente Martínez Guzmán Doctor of Philosophy and Director of the UNESCO Chair of Philosophy for Peace at the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló. He is also the founder of the Official Master and Doctorate (recipient of the ANECA Quality Label Recognition Award) in International Peace, Conflict and Development Studies. His most recent book is Podemos hacer las paces, Bilbao: Desclée de Brower, 2005.

Jake Lynch Associate Professor Jake Lynch, PhD (City University, London) has spent the past decade developing, teaching and training in peace journalism – and practising it, as an experienced international reporter in television and newspapers. He was a presenter (anchor) for BBC World News; the Sydney Correspondent for the London Independent newspaper, and a Political Correspondent for Sky News

Ekaterina Stepanova Heads a group on unconventional threats at the Center for International Security, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Moscow. In 2007-2009, she has been on leave from IMEMO to head Armed Conflicts and Conflict Management Programme at Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Her research focus is on trends in armed conflicts, terrorism and other forms of organized collective violence, political economy of conflicts and transnational crime. Dr Stepanova is the author of four books, including Terrorism in Asymmetrical Conflict: Ideological and Structural Aspects (Oxford University Press, 2008) and the prize-winning The Role of Illicit Drug Business in the Political Economy of Conflicts and Terrorism (Moscow, 2005). The latest of her co-edited volumes is Terrorism: Patterns of Internationalization (Sage, 2009). She is the author of over 80 other publications in six languages and serves on editorial boards of journals Terrorism and Political Violence and Security Index

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