Resident Faculty

Academics residing and teaching at the Headquarters campus in Costa Rica.
Alphabetical order of the last name. Please click on the name for a complete CV.

• Amr Abdalla (Egypt)
  Vice Rector for Academic Affairs
  Ph.D., Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, Spring 2001. Master's Degree, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, Spring 1992. LL.B. in Law, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, Spring 1977.
• Juan Amaya Castro (Colombia/Netherlands)
  Deputy Head of Department, Department o International Law and Human Rights
  Doctorandus in International Legal Sciences, Leiden University, The Netherlands. Disciplines: Public International Law and Human Rights
• Eliana Carvalho (Brazil/USA)
  Assistant Professor, Peace Education Porgramme, Departmen of Gender and Peace Education
  Ed.M. in Administration, Planning and Social Policy from Harvard University. B.S. in Mass Communication from Emerson College. Disciplines: Peace Education
• Tatiana Benavides Santos (Costa Rica)
  Assistant Professor, Coordinator of the Dual Campus M.A. Programme in International Peace Studies, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies.
  Doctorandus in Political Studies, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III; Master's degree in Political Studies, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle. Paris III; Post graduate Studies and BA in Political Science, University of Costa Rica. Disciplines: Democratization and governance.
• Rolain Borel (Switzerland)
  Head of Department of Environment, Peace and Security
  Doctor of Technical Sciences, Forage Agronomy, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; MSc, Livestock Production, Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Costa Rica; Agronomist, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Disciplines: Environmental conflict resolution, and rural development.
• Jan Breitling (Germany)
  Assistant Professor, Department of Environment, Peace and Security
  MSc. Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University and Research Center, The Netherlands. BSc. Tropical Forestry, Technological Institute of Costa Rica, Cartago, Costa Rica. He teaches Forestry, Agriculture, the San Jose Environmental Seminar and the Central American Fieldtrip. Prior to this, he worked as a Student Research Assistant in Wageningen University and Research Center, WUR, at the Sociology Department, inside the Environmental Policy Group.
  Research interests: Payments for Environmental Services, Forest Conservation, Sustainable Rural Development, Community Forest Concessions
• Gudmundur Eiriksson (Iceland)
  Head of Department of International Law and Human Rights
  LLM Columbia University, USA; LLB, King's College, University of London; AB, BS, Civil Engineering, Rutgers College. Disciplines: International Law and Treaties, Human Rights.
• Hassan El Menyawi
  LL.M. for Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, LL.B. (i.e., common law) and B.C.L. (i.e., civil law) from McGill law School, and a B.Sc. in psychology from McGill Law School.
• Victoria Fontan (France)
  Director for Academic Development, and Assistant Professor, International Peace Studies Programme, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies
  PhD, MA, Peace and Development Studies, University of Limerick, Eire. Disciplines: political science, post-conflict rehabilitation, media studies.
• Elizabeth Griffin (United Kingdom)
  Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of International Law and Human Rights.
  
• Mahmoud Hamid (Sudan)
  Assistant Professor, Department of Environment, Peace and Security
  Ph.D., Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands, 2007. EPU Certificate for Advanced International Study Programme in Peace and Conflict Transformation, European University Centre for Peace Studies (EPU), Austria, 1997. MA Politics of Alternative Development Strategies, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands, 1996. M.Sc. Political Science, Graduate College, University of Khartoum, 1995. B.Sc. (Honours) Department of Political Science, Faculty of Economic and Social Studies, University of Khartoum, 1988.
• Mohit Mukherje (India)
  Mohit Mukherjee is the Director of the UPEACE Centre for Executive and Professional Education and a faculty member at UPEACE. Prior to this position, he served as Education Programme Manager of the Earth Charter Initiative, an international nonprofit organization. He also spent four years in the private sector, at A.T. Kearney, a top-tier international management consulting firm based in USA. He has a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, and did his Master's at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, also taking courses at Harvard Business School on how to start up, manage, and grow social enterprises.
• Dina Rodríguez (Peru)
  Head of Department of Gender and Peace Education
  MA in Education, University of Texas, at Austin, USA; BA in Mathematics, Alverno College, Milwaukee, USA; BA in Teaching, National University of Education, Peru. Disciplines: Human Rights Education, Gender Studies, Education for Peace.
• Victor Valle (El Salvador)
  Dean for Latin America and the Caribbean Programme, and Head of Department of Peace and Conflict Studies
  Doctor of Education, The George Washington University, USA; Master of Education, University of Pittsburgh, USA; Undergraduate studies, Civil Engineering, University of El Salvador. Disciplines: Higher Education, Educational Development, Educational Management, Political Affairs, International Cooperation Management, Public Security, Human Security.
• Miriam Vilela (Brazil)
  Director, Earth Charter Center for Education for Sustainable Development at UPEACE.

Resident Research Fellows

Academics residing at the Headquarters campus in Costa Rica and focusing on research and practice
Alphabetical order of the last name. Please click on the name for a complete CV.

• Abelardo Brenes (Costa Rica)
  PhD, Psychology, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, BA, Psychology, and BA, Sociology, University of Costa Rica. Disciplines: Education for Peace, and Peace Psychology.
• Mary Elizabeth King (United States)
  PhD, International Politics, University of Wales at Aberystwyth, United Kingdom; BA, Literature, Ohio Wesleyan University, USA. Prize-winning author, several books on nonviolent struggle. Awarded Bajaj International Prize for Promotion of Gandhian Values, Mumbai, 2003. Disciplines: Peace and Conflict Studies, Gender and Peace Building, International Politics.
  

Administrative Faculty

UPEACE administrative staff with some academic responsibilities
Alphabetical order of the last name. Please click on the name for a complete CV.

• Laura Arroyo
  Programme Officer, Student and Alumni Affairs
• Jean-Bosco Butera
  Director, UPEACE Africa Programme
• Flor Cubero (Costa Rica)
  Head Librarian
  PhD, Information Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada; MA, Library Sciences, University of Western Ontario, Canada; MA in Sociology, University of Costa Rica. Disciplines: Research Methods, Project Evaluation, Information Science, International Cooperation
• Narinder Kakar
  Director, UPEACE New York Office
• Tony Karbo
  Programme Officer, UPEACE Africa Programme
• Thomas Klompmaker (The Netherlands)
  Project Coordinator
  Office of the Vice Rector for Academic Affairs (VRA)
  Msc Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands), MA International Peace Studies, University for Peace (Costa Rica)
• Natalia Riveros (Colombia)
  Programme Officer Department of International Law and Human Rights (DIL)
• Georges Tsaï (Canada)
  Executive Vice Rector
  Licence in political science, completed PhD courses, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland. BA of Commerce degree from Collège St-Michel, Fribourg, Switzerland. Disciplines: Ethics of Peace and War; Migration, Peace and Security.