Interviews

[12/03/2012]

Interview with Arcadi Oliveres

"Our leaders need to eradicate tax fraud and tax havens"

The economist Arcadi Oliveres inaugurated the lecture series Temps de crisi, temps d'oportunitats [Time of crisis, time of opportunity], a series of talks aimed at analysing and responding to society’s needs, with a talk on the social economy. The president of the organisation Justícia i Pau [Justice and Peace] is very clear about what steps society must take to fix the current economic model: degrowth and sustainability, the elimination of financial speculation, ethical banking, etc.

[19/10/2011]

Interview with Debora D'Alleva and Andrea Compagno

"Spain is a country of origin, transit and destination for sex tourism"

The Campus for Peace is rolling out a new course on prevention of and protection against child sexual exploitation, directed by Debora D’Alleva and Andrea Compagno, lawyers specialising in human rights and the rights of children. Both look to stress the seriousness of this problem and educate people on what Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) is and how it can be prevented through transversal strategies.

[09/09/2011]

Interview with Alberto Arce

"The fall of a dictator does not constitute regime change on its own"

Alberto Arce (Gijón, 1976) is one of the leading Spanish reporters of his generation. A specialist in conflicts, in recent years he has documented some of the world's most mediatised and paradoxically unknown crises in situ and from a human point of view, which include the Iraq and Afghanistan post-war periods, the Gaza Strip blockage and Israel's "cast lead" operation in southern Lebanon. Since mid-2008, he has combined his work as a journalist with teaching work on the UOC Masters in Conflictology. Now, just back from Libya, he discusses his experience at the heart of one of today's most controversial and silenced conflicts.

[30/05/2011]

Interview with May East

"The reductions in ecological footprints are possible in ways that are easily achievable'"

Gaia Education and the UOC jointly launch the post graduate Design for Sustainability, the only one offered online in Spain. The programme director of the organisation May East, presents the most relevant features of the post graduate programme.

[30/03/2011]

Interview with Farid Benavides

"Local peace is a modest but more stable and secure form of peace"

There are many studies on armed conflict in Colombia, but very few have looked at the subject from the perspective of peace. Farid Benavides has spent a year and a half working on ‘Peace Processes in Latin America’, a field research project in Colombia and Ecuador led by Eduard Vinyamata, director of the Campus for Peace of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, UOC). The project aims to analyse violence and conflict in Latin America from a new angle, that of peacebuilding. Benavides has published El llarg camí cap a la pau [‘The Long Road to Peace’], a book that features the project’s results.

[18/02/2011]

Interview with Chema Caballero

'Sport humanises the other and breaks down prejudices'

Chema Caballero is a Xaverian missionary that has been rehabilitating child soldiers in Sierra Leone since 1999. His experience there has been captured in the book ‘'Salvar a los niños soldados. La historia del misionero Chema Caballero en Sierra Leona" [Saving child soldiers. The story of the missionary Chema Caballero in Sierra Leone] by Gervasio Sánchez. Holder of an undergraduate degree in law, as well as a master’s degree in sociology from Long Island University in New York, Caballero designed a programme from scratch that has saved more than 3,000 Sierra Leonean children.
 

[15/12/2010]

Interview with Xaro Sánchez

"In conflictology, we can't just think on a social level"

Xaro Sánchez is a doctor in psychiatry and a coordinator of the Conflictology Research and Study Centre (CREC). A year ago now, the UOC set up this multidisciplinary research group with the aim of studying conflicts from different perspectives. Specialists from different fields of knowledge - such as genetics, sociology, economics, law, philosophy, education, psychiatry and neurobiology - work together to define and find the causes of conflict.

Recently, the neuroscientist took part in the Fourth International Conference on Conflictology and Peace, organised by the Campus for Peace, where she considered the role of science in solving social conflicts.