Affiliates
Nazar Jamil Abdulazeez M.A.
- Freelance Consultant
- MA in International Relations from Kent University, United Kingdom
- 15 years experiences with substantial theoretical and practical knowledge of participatory project design, program development, project evaluation and research with focus on peace and conflict, human rights, youth participation and civic engagement in the Middle East. Adequate experience in working with governmental and non-governmental agencies, youth and women groups, civil society organizations, donors and decision makers.
- Founding member of the Kurdish Institute for Victimology and Fighting Genocide in Iraq 2009; Founder of EMR (Evaluation, Monitoring and Research) Institute for Consultancy and Development 2016.
- Research topics: peace and conflict, human rights, youth participation, civic engagement, Civil society Development, Youth Participation
- List of Publications: see attachment
Dr. Daniel Mekonnen
- Executive Director of the Eritrean Law Society (ELS); Senior Core Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University
- Daniel Mekonnen has done extensive research work and teaching in international human rights law and transitional justice. Currently, he is a Senior Core Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University, where he is involved in preliminary research work with a working title “Africa and the International Criminal Court: Between Cooperation and Antagonism”; is Doctor of Laws (LLD) in Public International Law
- Research topics: international human rights law, international humanitarian law, international criminal law, transitional justice, peace and conflict studies
- List of Publications: see attached file
- Contact: https://ias.ceu.edu/people/daniel-mekonnen
Denis Alberto Torres Pérez MSc.
- Director of the Institute of Researches and Social Action “Martin Luther King” of the Polytechnic University of Nicaragua (UPOLI)
- M.A.in international relationsfrom the University for Peace of the United Nations Organization (UPEACE), Costa Rica.
- former adviser to the Nicaragua Permanent Mission to the United Nations and a member of the advisory office of the Chief Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the 1980s; director of farmer training in the agrarian reform& founding director of the Institute for Research and Social Action "Martin Luther King" of the Polytechnic University of Nicaragua (UPOLI).
- Director of the scientific journal Culture of Peace
- received the International Order of the Tolerance "Mahatma Gandhi", by UNESCO in the year 1996.
- Research topics: Human rights, peace, peace accords, violence, reconciliation
- Contact: imlk@upoli.edu.ni; imlk_upoli@yahoo.com
- http://escuelas.upoli.edu.ni/offices/view/12/inst-martin-luther-king
