Republic of Ireland
Laura K. Taylor (PhD)
Lecturer in Psychology at University College Dublin and Queen’s University Belfast.
Laura’s research is framed by an intergroup developmental approach to study risk and resilience processes for youth in settings of protracted conflict. Her work has implications for child outcomes, such as aggression, prosocial behaviours and social identity, as well as broader psychosocial processes, such as shared education and intergroup relations, which may fuel or constrain conflict. Toward this end, she studies how and why violence affects behaviours and attitudes related to conflict transformation, primarily during childhood and adolescence.
Vivian Liu
Postdoctoral Researcher at University College Dublin
Vivian holds a PhD in Developmental Psychology from New York University and is working as a postdoctoral researcher on the GENERATION PEACE project. She comes from a background in children’s perceptions of intergroup relationships and early strategies for reducing stereotyping and bias. At University College Dublin, she is investigating youth peacebuilding in post-conflict societies.
Joanna Harnett
MA student at University College Dublin
Joanna is currently an M.A student of Peace and Conflict Studies in the School of Politics and International Relations (SPIRE) at UCD. She holds a BA in French and German from Trinity College Dublin. Her research background is in sociolinguistics and social identity. She is conducting her summer internship with Generation Peace and is interested in human rights and transitional justice in post conflict societies.
Israel
Prof. Eran Halperin
Full professor of Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Eran is a former Dean of the School of Psychology at IDC–Herzliya and now Professor in the Psychology Department at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the head and founder of an academic NGO called aChord – Social Psychology for Social Change. His work develops new approaches for modifying the psychological roots of intolerance, exclusion, and intergroup violence.
Ilana Ushomirsky
MA student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Ilana is currently an M.A. student in the Psychology department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She also works as a research coordinator in the academic NGO aChord. She is interested in the role emotion and emotion regulation serve in peoples’ engagement with and attempts to promote the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’s resolution.
Rona Yaniv
Research Assistant at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Rona is a B.A. student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, majoring in psychology and economics. She is enthusiastic about social psychology, interpersonal differences, and behavioral economics and how they affect our behavior and cause conflicts and collaborations.
Neta Dekel
Research Assistant at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Neta is a B.A. student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, majoring in Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology. She is interested in the relationship between emotions and agreement, and in interventions that can be taken to increase individuals’ tolerance for differing views, particularly in the context of climate change.
Alon Bar-peled
Research Assistant at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Alon is a B.A. student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, majoring in Psychology. He is interested in the emotions and behaviors of emergency medical teams in a prehospital environment, who give critical health care to people that differ from them based on religion and political outlook.
Switzerland
Jeanine Grütter (PhD)
Associate Professor at the University of Konstanz
Jeanine Grütter (PHD) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Empirical Educational Research at the University of Konstanz. She investigates how positive relationships between peers and between social groups develop during childhood and adolescence and how pro-sociality, solidarity, moral skills and social inclusion can be facilitated through educational programs.
Tabea Hässler (PhD)
Senior Lecturer at the University of Zurich
Tabea Hässler is a senior lecturer at the University of Zurich. Tabea’s research focuses on responses to inequalities among diverse advantaged and disadvantaged group members (e.g., in the LGBTIQ+, gender, and ethnic context) and their action toward social change. A central aim is to promote more inclusive societies and social justice.
Léïla Eisner (PhD)
Senior Lecturer at the University of Zurich
Léïla Eisner is a senior lecturer at the University of Zurich and the co-founder of the Swiss LGBTIQ+ Panel. Her research interest broadly involves intergroup relations and discrimination, with an emphasis on social norms and support for social change movements in the LGBTQI+ context.
Dinah Gross (PhD)
Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Lausanne
Dinah is a postdoctoral researcher in social sciences at the University of Lausanne and at the Service de la Recherche en Education, Geneva, in Switzerland. Her research focuses on sexist and homophobic discrimination and harassment in vocational training, and its effects on vocational choices and school dropout. She aims to develop tools to promote greater inclusiveness in schools.
Colombia
Claudia Patricia Pineda Marin (PhD)
Professor of Psychology at Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz
Claudia is a psychologist from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia). She is currently a professor, researcher, and director of the Ph.D. program in Psychology at Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz (Bogotá, Colombia). She has made contributions to various projects in social psychology, including the “Changing the Story” project funded by the Arts and Humanities Council, UKRI. In this project, she coordinated the activities in Colombia for YouthLEAD: Fostering youth peacebuilding capacity in Colombia and amplifying voices.
Juliana Valentina Duarte Valderrama
Research Assistant at Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz
Valentina is a postgrad research intern at Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz from which she obtained her BA in Psychology. She has participated in social psychology research projects to evaluate constructs such as peace, justice, reconciliation, gender, female empowerment and mental health within the framework of the Colombian armed conflict.
Anyela Daniela Rocha Galvis
Research Assistant at Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz
Daniela is a psychology student and research assistant in the behaviour laboratory at Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz. She has a strong interest in social psychology, the events that surround Colombian society and actions for peace proposed by young people. She wants to seek out and listen to historically marginalised voices.
Maria Alejandra Mejía Veloza
Research Assistant at Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz
Alejandra is a psychology student at Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz, with complementary studies in Political Science. She has research experience and interest in political and social psychology, including topics related to emotions within conflict, transitional justice, peace building and historical memory.
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