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is Associate Professor at the Centre for Peace Research and Peace Education at the Department of Educational Science, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt. She studied Political Science, Gender Studies and Contemporary History in Vienna, Paris, and Berlin. She received her doctorate from the University of Vienna in 2009. In 2010, she joined the Centre for Peace Studies and Peace Education at the University Klagenfurt where she was promoted to assistant professor in 2015. The same year, she started her transdisciplinary research project "Theorizing Epistemic Violence" (V 368-G15, funded by the Austrian Science Fund from 2015 to 2020). Having successfully completed the latter, she earned her habilitation degree at the University of Vienna in 2019 and was appointed an associate professor at the University of Klagenfurt in 2020. For her interdisciplinary work on entanglements of knowledge and violence Claudia Brunner received two academic awards in Germany (2011, 2012). For further information, research foci, teaching, lectures and publications see www.epistemicviolence.info
Role: Project Coordinater at Alps-Adriatic University from 2020
Job Titles:
- Project Coordinator / Department of Development Studies
- Social Scientist
is a social scientist, post-doc researcher and lecturer at the Department of Development Studies at the University of Vienna. His research focuses on the Israel-Palestine antagonism, social movements in the Arab World, development policies in war zones, critical state theories, and postcolonial approaches. Recent publications include: as an editor Food Sovereignty and Alternative Development in Palestine (2018), as co-editor Krise, Revolte und Krieg in der arabischen Welt (Crisis, revolt, and war in the Arab world) (2017) as well as the essays Nurturing Alternative Development: Agricultural Cooperatives in Palestine (2018), Nicht zu verwischende Spuren: Zur Dialektik von Revolution und Konterrevolution in der arabischen Welt (Tracks that can't be covered. On the dialectic of revolution and counterrevolution in the Arab world) (2017) and Syrien - Aufstand, Krieg und Flucht (Syria - uprising, war, and flight) (2016). Furthermore, he was the Austrian project coordinator of the APPEAR project Rooting Development in the Palestinian Context.
holds a BA in Arabic literature and religious studies and a Master in Health Management (MHA). He is a Palestinian born in Lebanon in 1964, an activist for the rights of Palestinian refugees and the rights of people with disabilities. Kassem Sabbah is a scholar in Islamic studies, a writer and poet. He has published several books and articles about religious reform and the role of religious men in politics and social development besides patriotic and sufi poems. He has long experiences in humanitarian work and worked for several international and local NGOs. He is a consultant and trainer in organizational and institutional development as well. Kassem Sabbah is the founder of the Palestinian Disability Forum, the Palestinian Union for People with Disabilities as well as Mousawat.
Role: Project coordinator at Mousawat, Research reviewer
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Department of Social
is an economist and senior researcher at the Syrian Center for Policy Research (SCPR). His areas of research include macroeconomic policies and socioeconomic development in Syria. Marzouk worked for the State Planning Commission as a consultant and lecturer at the Planning Institute of Damascus for the macroeconomics sector. He also worked for the General Company for Technical Studies and as a consultant and expert for ESCWA, UNDP, UNIDO, and ILO. He holds a doctorate in Analysis and Economics Policies from The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris.
Role: Researcher
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Economics at Hampshire College
Job Titles:
- Professor of Development Sociology
is an economist, researcher and co-founder of the Syrian Center for Policy Research (SCPR). His areas of expertise and research include macroeconomic policies, inclusive growth, poverty, and conflict socioeconomic impact assessment. He holds a MSc in Economics from Leicester University, UK. Before joining the SCPR, Nasser worked for the State Planning Commission as chief economist and director general of the Macroeconomic Management Directorate between 2004-2005. He later worked as an economic researcher for the Arab Planning Institute in Kuwait. Since 2008, he leads several United Nations research projects.
Role: Project coordinator at SCPR
Job Titles:
- Economist and Researcher at the Syrian Center for Policy Research
is an economist and researcher at the Syrian Center for Policy Research (SCPR). Her areas of research include economic policies and development issues in Syria. Ismail worked for the Ministry of Finance in Syria as a coordinator of the Value-added Tax Project between 2004-2005. From 2009-2011 she worked as a macroeconomic expert for the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ). Ismail is involved in several UN and international organization projects, including UNICEF. She holds a MSc in Economics of the Middle East from Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany, a MSc in Economic Policy for Developing and Transitional Economies from University of Bradford, UK, and a Diploma in Population and Development from Damascus University.
Role: Researcher
is an MA student in the field of Sociology at the Lebanese University in Beirut. Rawya started working at Mousawat in 2013. She has longstanding experience in field research, planning, and data collection and analysis. Rawya led a group of social workers and sociologists through a three-year training program within the framework of the APPEAR project Rooting Development in the Palestinian Context. Currently she is leading the research unit at Mousawat.
Role: Coordinator between NGOs, academic staff of the project and researchers in Lebanon, Researcher
is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Birzeit University and was the director of the Applied Statistics Master Programme at Birzeit University between 2012 and 2017. He is also an associate research fellow at the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute. He holds a PhD degree in economics since 2008 from the University of Evry Val d'Essonne in France, where he also obtained his Master degree in macroeconomics and econometrics in 2003. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Aix-Marseille School of Economics in 2014. His research interests include econometrics, labour economics, poverty dynamics, income inequalities and wage return to education.
Role: Researcher
Job Titles:
- Senior Scientist at the Centre for Peace Research