The Center for International Conflict Resolution is pleased to present

POLARIZATION BETWEEN OCCUPIER AND OCCUPIED IN POST-SADDAM IRAQ:
HUMILIATION AND THE FORMATION OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE
with
Dr. Victoria Firmo-Fontan
Conflict Analysis and Resolution Program
Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
Wednesday, April 21st
12:00 - 2 pm
Room 1302

Victoria Firmo-Fontan is a post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Sabanci University, in Turkey. She has published various papers on multi-track diplomacy, human trafficking, the public diplomacy of armed groups and the formation of political violence in post-conflict societies. Central to her work has been a conceptualisation of post-conflict processes through the study of social, gendered, cultural, economic and political humiliation.

Dr. Firmo-Fontan has conducted field research in Lebanon with the Hezbollah, in Bosnia-Herzegovina on human trafficking and organised crime, and in Fallujah (post-Saddam Iraq) with emerging armed groups. She is also involved in gender training for peacekeeping operations, and has lectured to various armed forces on the subject.