• Resident Faculty
• Visiting Faculty

Victoria Fontan

Nationality: France

Website: www.victoriacfontan.com

Current Position within UPEACE

Head, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies; Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies. In addition to my teaching responsibilities, I am also developing a PhD Program at UPeace. My research background is eclectic, while centered on key issues in the development of insurgent groups engaging in political violence and acts of terrorism in post-conflict areas. I conducted field research in Lebanon, the Spanish Basque country, and more recently post-Saddam Iraq. Recently, I have been exploring post-liberal dimensions of Peace and Conflict Studies and am currently writing a book on decolonized peace.

Education and Qualifications

• PhD, MA, Peace and Development Studies, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland
• PhD Candidate in Education, Universidad De La Salle, Costa Rica
• BA, Politics, University of Sussex, UK

Work Experience

• Fellow to the Iraq Program, Centre for International Conflict Resolution, Columbia University, USA
• Visiting Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Colgate University, USA
• Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Sabanci University, Turkey
• Research Associate, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
• Democratization Officer, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Mission to Bosnia-Herzegovina

Courses/Subjects Taught

• Foundation Course in Peace and Conflict Studies
• Terrorism, Insurgency and the Media
• Conflict Management
• Systemic Aspects of Peace Facilitation
• Curriculum Development in Peace and Conflict Studies

Research Interests

• Decolonized Peace
• Terrorism and Political Violence
• Peace Operations Training
• Human Trafficking and Sexual Slavery
• Post-liberal Peace Journalism

Publications
Books

• Decolonized Peace: towards a new epistemology of Peace and Conflict Studies, to be completed in 2012
• Voices from Post-Saddam Iraq: Living with Terrorism, Insurgency and new Forms of Tyranny, published by Praeger Security International, Westport, CT. 2009.

Articles and chapters in books

• ‘Gregory Bateson: A Practitionner’s Perspective’ in Dietrich, et al., The Palgrave International handbook of Peace Studies, London, Palgrave, 2011.
• ‘Every man for Himself’ in S Best, P. McLaren and A.J. Nocella, II, Academic Repression: The Assault on Free Speech in the Post 9/11 World, Oakland, CA, AK Press, 2010.
• ‘Understanding Islamic Terrorism: Humiliation Awareness and the Role of Nonviolence’ in R Senthil and R Summy, Nonviolence: An Alternative for Defeating Global Terror(ism), Happauge: Nova Science Publishers, 2007.
• '"Our ears and our eyes": journalists and fixers in Iraq', written with Jerry Palmer, Journalism, Vol. 8, No. 1, 5-24, Sage Publishers, 2007.
• 'Polarization between occupier and occupied in Post-Saddam Iraq: humiliation and the formation of political violence' in Terrorism and Political Violence, 18:217-238, Routledge: Taylor and Francis. Spring 2006.
• 'Le discours d'al-Manar: vecteur de glasnost du Hezbollah?' in Questions de Communication, Vol 8, Université de Metz, France. April 2006.
• 'Hubris, History, and Humiliation: Quest for Utopia in Post-Saddam Iraq'
  in Social Alternatives(Special Issue "Humiliation and History in Global Perspectives"), Vol. 25, No. 1, First Quarter, 2006.
• 'Al-Manar TV and Lebanese Women's Groups' in Naomi Sakr, Women and Media in the Arab World. London: IB Tauris, 2004.
• 'The International Media and the Lebanese Hezbollah: reporting or supporting a third party?', in Humanitariannet, The Emotion and the Truth: Studies in Mass communication and conflict. Bilbao: University of Deusto, 2003.
• 'The importance of education and training in modern peace operations' in The Yearbook of International Peace Operations, Volume 9, 2003. Amsterdam: Brill Academic Publishers.
• 'The Media and Conflict Prevention: Warning or Monitoring? The Case of Dvar, Bosnia' in M Aguirre, F Ferrandiz & J-M PurezaBefore Emergency: Conflict Prevention and the Media. Bilbao: University of Deusto, 2003.
• 'Responses to human trafficking: from the Balkans to Afghanistan' in C Van den Anker, The Political Economy of New Slavery London: Palgrave, 2003.
• 'US Newsmedia influence on US Foreign Policy: from the Gulf war to the War on Terrorism', UL Perspectives, Volume 1, February 2002.
• 'David vs. Goliath: The Lebanese Hezbollah in the Current World Order' in Journal of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations.Kuala Lumpur: IDFR Press, December 2002.

Professional Distinctions

Associate Editor, Peace Studies Journal, Central New York Peace Studies Consortium; Board of Directors, Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Network; Co-convener, Peace Education Commission of International Peace Research Association; Program co-director, Regional Peace Institute of the Association of Bishop’s Conference of Central Africa, Catholic University of Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo; Editorial Board member of the Peace and Conflict Review; Founding Member, Professors Without Borders.  

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