Ilaria Tucci
Dr Ilaria Tucci (she/her) is the president of EuPRA. She works as a theatre practitioner, community facilitator, diversity agent and peace researcher. She uses theatre as a nonviolent tool for peace education, conflict transformation, empowerment and peacebuilding. In her Doctoral Dissertation “Community-Based Theatre as Conflict Transformation in Lampedusa”, she explores the potential of community-based theatre as a participatory practice of co-production of knowledge with communities at the militarised border of Europe. She is also active in the Finnish context within the Diversity Agents Network, which aims to promote and implement DEI practices in the Finnish artistic and cultural contexts.
Malaka Shwaikh
Malaka is the vice president of EuPRA. She is a Palestinian academic from the Gaza Strip, currently based in Scotland where she teaches and researches prisons as spaces of power, resistance, and peacebuilding. Much of her research has been on the dynamics of prison hunger strikes. In addition to her research commitments, she is a trustee of Firefly International and St Andrews Education for Palestinian Studies. In 2021, she co-founded FreelancersinGaza.com with Candace Amani to connect youths in Gaza with clients around the world and provide them with mentorship. In her spare time, she loves to spend time hiking in beautiful Scotland or swimming in the North Sea whenever it is warm enough. She finds purpose in giving back to the community, whether it is through teaching, mentorship, volunteering in organisations that fit her life purposes, or simply taking good care of loved ones and herself to be able to continue giving back.
Milady Cordero Ulloa
Milady is originally from Costa Rica and based in Pisa, Italy, where she collaborates on various educational projects and work on initiatives that promote peace and human rights. She is also involved with the Interdisciplinary Center “Sciences for Peace” (CISP) at the University of Pisa. Her background includes research assistant roles at FLACSO (Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences) in Costa Rica, where she focused on social issues such as youth, employment, and violence prevention, with an emphasis on qualitative, community-based research. She holds a Master’s in Peace Studies: Conflict Transformation and Development Cooperation from the University of Pisa and a Bachelor’s in Sociology from the University of Costa Rica.
Merel Selleslach
Merel is a researcher at the Flemish Peace Institute, located in Brussels. She researches topics related to peace in foreign policy with a specific focus on Flemish and Belgian policy. As a member of the COST Action PEACE, she supports the further development and strengthening of a European peace research network of which EuPRA is also part. Before going into research, Merel worked for a Belgian peace organisation campaigning to ban nuclear weapons and autonomous weapon systems (aka killer robots) and advocating for peaceful alternatives to international armed conflict.
Judith Jordà Frias
PhD candidate in International Relations: International Politics and Conflict Resolution (UC). Master in International Relations and African Studies (UAM), Postgraduate Course in African Culture and Societies, Singularities and Globalisation (CEA/UPF), Degree in Anthropology (University of Strasbourg) and Degree in Translation and Interpretation (UAB). Main research interests: the perpetuation of the Israeli occupation through education; the demolition of Palestinian houses as collective punishment; Palestinian daily resistance to Israelian apartheid; Nigerian-Catalan sex trafficking from Black Feminist Gepolitics; Catalan labour trafficking in the care and domestic sector; pacifist social movements in the Democratic Republic of Congo; decolonial feminist praxis. In parallel, I have also worked as an anthropologist and teacher (Aurora, Gestió de Projectes Socials; Comissió Catalana d'Acció pel Refugi), project manager (Lliga dels Drets dels Pobles) and researcher of ethical and technological issues applied to social sciences (Eticas Research and Consulting), organiser of academic and advocacy events (Festival Internacional de Cinemes Africans de Barcelona, Reseau Européen pour l'Afrique centrale, University of Coimbra), translator and interpreter (agencies, governments, organisations and private clients).
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Cæcilie Svop Jensen
Cæcilie is a doctoral researcher with the Tampere Peace Research Institute in Tampere, Finland and holds a Master of Social Sciences in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research. In her doctoral research she investigates everyday processes of violence and peace in diasporic spaces in the Nordics and transnational dimensions of conflict from a feminist peace research perspective. In addition, Cæcilie is part of an ongoing research project entitled ”Forms of resistance and practices of hope”, which interrogates everyday hope and resistance in the context of violent and oppressive societal structures.
Meeri Tiensuu
Meeri is a doctoral researcher at the Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI) in Tampere University. In her PhD, Tiensuu investigates how peace and conflict intersect within migrant integration and homebuilding processes in Finland. As feminist peace researcher, she explores the intersections of inequalities, co-existence, and social justice. Additionally, she is interested in employing and better understanding creative and collaborative methodologies in knowledge production. She holds two Master’s degrees: one in Development Studies from the University of Helsinki and another in Peace, Mediation and Conflict research from Tampere University.
Amanda Huuki
Amanda Huuki is the secretary of EuPRA. She is pursuing an MA in Peace, Mediation, and Conflict Research at Tampere University, Finland.
Bram J. De Smet 
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Bram holds an engineering degree in Robotics and a Master’s in International Conflict and Security from the University of Kent. He is currently a doctoral researcher at Tampere University (TAU). His research delves into the slow erasure of Indigenous identity, agency, and episteme, examining these processes as forms of genocide by attrition perpetuated through body politics and biopower. He’s also a council member of IPRA and a researcher on the FoRE/HOPE project.