Location: France
Member Since:
Oct. 12, 2021
Victoria Fontan
Biography
Victoria Fontan is a Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Vice President of Academic Affairs at the American University of Afghanistan. She is also a visiting professor at the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESO), Guadalajara, Mexico; at the Institut Supérieur des Techniques de Développement, Kalehe, République Démocratique du Congo; and the University of Duhok, Iraq.
Her original academic specializations have been twofold, first, critical terrorism studies from a peace studies perspective, focusing on the role of humiliation in relation to the emergence of insurgencies, mostly in a Middle Eastern context, and second, post-liberal peace studies, from a decolonial perspective. She is now focusing her research on higher education in emergencies; and open recognition networks to build sustainable peace.
Prior to her appointment to Afghanistan, she coordinated the establishment of the quality framework for HPass, the LinkedIn-type platform for humanitarian workers and volunteers. She is also engaging in selected academic activities within the fields of peace education, peace-building research, and critical terrorism studies.
Her original academic specializations have been twofold, first, critical terrorism studies from a peace studies perspective, focusing on the role of humiliation in relation to the emergence of insurgencies, mostly in a Middle Eastern context, and second, post-liberal peace studies, from a decolonial perspective. She is now focusing her research on higher education in emergencies; and open recognition networks to build sustainable peace.
Prior to her appointment to Afghanistan, she coordinated the establishment of the quality framework for HPass, the LinkedIn-type platform for humanitarian workers and volunteers. She is also engaging in selected academic activities within the fields of peace education, peace-building research, and critical terrorism studies.
Where to find Victoria Fontan online
Website: http://www.victoriacfontan.com
Twitter: @Victoria Fontan
Facebook: Facebook profile
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoriafontan/
Blog: http://www.victoriacfontan.com/blog
Twitter: @Victoria Fontan
Facebook: Facebook profile
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoriafontan/
Blog: http://www.victoriacfontan.com/blog
Where to buy in print
Books
Decolonizing Peace
by Victoria Fontan
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 60,190.
Language:
English.
Published: October 12, 2021
by
Dignity Press.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Social Science » Global society studies, Nonfiction » Social Science » Social psychology
In this book, Victoria Fontan questions the pre-established assumptions that exist in peace and conflict studies, and brings forward an alternative epistemology that relates to non-conventional initiatives for peace that exist in various parts of the world. At first, we must realize that we are powerless in facing the destruction and injustices that we invariably bring with our peace.