
Conflicts, peace and security
Armed conflicts and insecurity in the broadest sense prevent the exercising of fundamental human rights, generate a myriad of violence with lasting impacts and limit development and life opportunities of individuals and peoples. Our work in this area is based on critical peace and security studies to analyse those impacts, along with different peacebuilding initiatives driven by international cooperation and by women's, indigenous, human rights and non-violent civil resistance movements.
Research lines
Feminism, conflicts and peace
We focus on the feminist analysis of armed conflicts and peacebuilding from a practical and theoretical perspective, by way of studies in different countries (Guatemala, El Salvador, Western Sahara, Colombia, DRC…) and taking the masculinities, intersectional and gender approach.
Peacebuilding, international cooperation and humanitarian action
We study aspects such as armed conflicts as triggers of humanitarian crises, international cooperation and humanitarian action for peacebuilding, critical peacebuilding studies and the links between non-violent civil resistance and peacebuilding
Transitional justice, memory and human rights
We explore transitional justice as an aspect of peacebuilding and we conduct research into recovery of the historical memory and the rights to truth, justice and reparation from a gender and human rights perspective.
Human security and critical security studies
We are interested in the alternative approaches to the traditional concept of security, in particular human security as a perspective linked to human development, and the critical security studies (feminist, post-structuralist, decolonial, green theory contributions, etc.).
Human Rights in Western Sahara
We research human rights violations in Western Sahara, occupied by Morocco, from a gender perspective, together with Sahrawi Human Rights Defenders. We accompany Sahrawi organisations, through training and technical assistance, in the strengthening of their capacities in order to undertake their own processes of research in human rights and advocacy, with special consideration towards mechanisms of international protection.
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Team
Jokin Alberdi
Professor and researcher
Efren Areskurrinaga
Professor and researcher
Sheida Besozzi
Training
Eduardo Bidaurratzaga
Professor and researcher

Anca Cretu
Investigadora en formación

Marian Díez
Professor and researcher
Gloria Guzmán
Project management and advisory services
Yolanda Jubeto
Professor and researcher
Mertxe Larrañaga
Professor and researcher

Alba Linares Quero
Personal Investigador Contratado
Irantzu Mendia
Directora, Hegoa Institute
Itziar Mujika
Secretary of the Hegoa Institute
Rakel Oion
Professor and researcher
Karlos Pérez de Armiño
Professor and researcher

Juan Carlos Pérez de Mendiguren
Professor and researcher
Yuliya Serkezyuk
Investigadora en formación
Juan Telleria
Professor and researcher
Patxi Zabalo
Professor and researcher
iker zirion
Professor and researcher
Interesting resources
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VI Conference on Feminist Research Methodologies
Date: 2022 October 20
Place: Euskadi
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El documental “Voces plurales: estrategias de mujeres por la memoria y la justicia en Guatemala” se presenta en Eibar el 1 de marzo
Date: 2022 March 1
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Presentación en Zarauz del informe sobre el Sáhara Occidental "Que salga todo a la luz"
Date: 2022 February 24
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Acto cultural "Que suene la cultura y no el ruido de la guerra"
Date: 2021 December 13
Projects
Related news
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Denunciamos las últimas amenazas contra organizaciones indígenas y afrodescendientes en el Cauca y el asesinato de Miller Correa, Consejero de la ACIN
Date: 2022 March 17
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Two weeks in the Basque Country, Madrid and Cantabria to strengthen capabilities for the protection of organisations against human rights violations, murders and threats in northern Cauca
Date: 2021 December 10
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Training and advocacy programme for indigenous, afro-colombian and peasant organisations of Northern Cauca (Colombia)
Date: 2021 November 15
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Recognition Act: “Recognise me. Exiled Colombia in Euskadi”
Date: 2021 June 2