
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
Presidenta
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

Ivana Belén Ruiz-Estramil
Professor and researcher, Hegoa Institute
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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European Presentation of Columbia’s Truth Commission Final Report
Date: 2022 July 6
Place: Bilbao
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Introduction and screening of the film “On the Other Side. Diary of a Kidnapping”
Date: 2022 July 5
Place: Bilbao
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“Voces plurales: estrategias de mujeres por la memoria y la justicia en Guatemala” se presenta en Larrabetzu el 1 de junio
Date: 2022 June 1
Projects
Related news
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Denuncia pública por el asalto de la oficina y robo de bienes a la Ruta Pacífica de las Mujeres en Putumayo, Colombia
Date: 2022 November 30
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Formación e intercambio de experiencias en Euskadi para el empoderamiento y la autonomía económica de mujeres del norte del Cauca
Date: 2022 November 8
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In Donostia-San Sebastián, international experts reflect on the truth as an inalienable ethical principle for victim reparation, for social harmony and for preventing a repeat of past events
Date: 2022 September 9
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We condemn the attack against Rosana Mejía Caicedo, Senior Counsellor of ACONC, and demand that the facts of the case be clarified and the Senior Counsellor and her family be protected
Date: 2022 September 5