Peace News Expert Network

Xavier Mathieu is a Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Liverpool (UK). His research focuses on post-colonial legacies in global politics, in particular as they impact past and current notions of sovereignty, international interventions, and identity/difference. His current project explores the way (post)colonial violence opens up spaces of resistance by disrupting the frontiers between ‘us’ and ‘them’.

Yoav Kapshuk is Senior Lecturer at Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel; Head of Israel Studies Unit at the department of Multidisciplinary Studies. Former Visiting Fellow at the LSE Middle East Center, and at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. Dr. Kapshuk focuses on peace research: peacebuilding, peace education, peacemaking and transitional justice, especially about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Israelis and Palestinians relationships. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations from the Tel-Aviv University (2017). His studies have been published in peer-reviewed academic journals such as Defence and Peace Economics, Israel Law Review, and Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology.

Yolanda G. Ealdama is a registered social worker in the Philippines. She has a Master in Development Studies with specialization in Women, Gender and Development from the Institute of Social Studies now the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, The Netherlands. She was a volunteer of the Hague Appeal of Peace Coalition while studying in the Netherlands. She has more than 3 decades of experience in the field of social work and social development. She had had engagements with different sectors of society from peasants, women, non-government and government organizations. She is vice chairperson of the International Consortium on Social Development-Asia Pacific. She is also an Individual Lifetime member of the International Association of Schools of Social Work. She is currently teaching at the University of the Philippines as Professorial Lecturer.