I am Center Manager, Collaboration Center for Quality Learning in Humanitarian Action, hosted by the Bioforce Institute in Lyon, France. I am also 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, Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
My original specialization has been in insurgency studies, focusing on the role of humiliation in relation to the emergence of insurgencies, mostly in a Middle Eastern context. I have published on Lebanon and Iraq, and have worked on both countries for the first ten years of my career.
I am currently on a break from full-time academia and focusing on quality learning and assessment of competencies for professionals in the humanitarian and development sectors. I am still engaging in selected academic activities within the fields of peace education, peace-building and critical terrorism studies. After conducting research in more than 15 countries on all continents (Burma, Colombia, DR Congo, Kashmir, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, etc), I am currently focusing on the localization agenda of humanitarian action as well as women in armed mouvements in Iraqi Kurdistan.
My original specialization has been in insurgency studies, focusing on the role of humiliation in relation to the emergence of insurgencies, mostly in a Middle Eastern context. I have published on Lebanon and Iraq, and have worked on both countries for the first ten years of my career.
I am currently on a break from full-time academia and focusing on quality learning and assessment of competencies for professionals in the humanitarian and development sectors. I am still engaging in selected academic activities within the fields of peace education, peace-building and critical terrorism studies. After conducting research in more than 15 countries on all continents (Burma, Colombia, DR Congo, Kashmir, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, etc), I am currently focusing on the localization agenda of humanitarian action as well as women in armed mouvements in Iraqi Kurdistan.
