UPEACE Faculty and Research Areas
Francisco Rojas (Ph. D., University of Utrecht, Netherlands), Rector, University for Peace
Areas of Interest:
- International-relations
- International security in the Americas
- Analysis of conflict and negotiation
- Comparative Latin American politics
- Human Security
Department of International Law
Juan-Carlos Sainz-Borgo (Doctor of Juridical Sciences, Universidad Central de Venezuela), Dean and Associate Professor
Areas of Interest:
- International border conflicts
- International Law
- International Criminal Law
- International Human Rights
- International courts and the settlement of disputes
Mihir Kanade (Doctorate, University for Peace, Costa Rica), Head of the Department
Areas of Interest:
- Human Rights protection of vulnerable groups and persons
- International Economic Law
- Sustainable Development/SDGs/2030 Agenda
- Governance/Global Governance/Good Governance
- International Law and the Global and Regional Peace and Security Architecture
Mariateresa Garrido (Doctorate, University for Peace, Costa Rica) Doctoral Committee Coordinator
Areas of Interest:
- Human rights and technology
- Right to freedom of expression in the digital era
- Protection of journalists and citizen journalists/Journalist’s safety
- Media and international law
- Critical analysis of Internet-based platforms/information and communication technologies
Department of Peace and Conflict Studies
Adriana Salcedo (School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution - George Mason University, Virginia, USA), Head of the Department
- Conflict Transformation and grass-roots peacebuilding
- Human mobility through intersectional lenses (transnational spaces, integration and belonging)
- Interculturality and conflict resolution
- Social Identities
Stephanie Knox (PhD., Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, California, USA)
Areas of Interest:
- Peace Education and Global Citizenship Education
- Environmental justice and sustainability education
- Decolonizing Education/Decolonial Pedagogies
- Nonviolence and nonviolent movements
- Inner peace
- Post-qualitative, post-humanist research methodologies
Uzma Rashid (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)
Areas of Interest:
- Gender, inequalities and marginalization
- Religion intolerance, and peacebuilding in religiously sensitive contexts
- Race and ethnicity
- Intersections of identities
- Transnational identities
Department of Environment and Development
Olivia Sylvester (PhD., University of Manitoba, Canada), Head of Department
Areas of interest:
- Food Security/Food Sovereignty
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Indigenous peoples’ resource access
- Gender and environment
- Research Methodologies (critical, indigenous, feminist)
Jan Breitling (Doctorate, University for Peace, Costa Rica)
Areas of interest:
- Sustainability and sustainable development
- Conservation
- Environmental security and natural resource conflicts
- Climate change governance
- Tourism