Anna Guryanova is a BS/MA student at School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University. She has specific interests in economic development and foreign policy. Currently doing research on the economic aspect of ethnic and religious conflicts, and energy politics of oil abundant economies. Anna’s interest in the Basque Research project is a result of research on the unique history of Basque region and current role of the Basque community in Spain.
Emily Green is an undergraduate student at Seton Hall University’s School of Diplomacy and International Relations. She is currently pursuing a degree in both International Relations and Economics. Her passions include women’s rights, economic empowerment, and the post-conflict peace process. After working as Dr. Manojlovic’s research assistant for several months, she was approached to join the newly-formed Basque research team. She looks forward to gaining more insight on the impact of memory and forgiveness in the Basque peace process.
Originally from Phoenix, Arizona, Emily spends much of her free time attending lectures and events in nearby NYC. She is currently interning with the Permanent Mission of Malta to the United Nations, where she covers meetings and briefings on social and economic issues. She is excited to begin her senior thesis project next semester on the role of women in the mediation and post-conflict peace process.
Andrea Bartoli serves as a senior fellow at the Agirre Center. He is an international conflict resolution expert who has served in key academic and diplomatic positions for more than two decades. Dr. Bartoli served as the dean of the School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University from 2013-2019. Prior to his appointment, Bartoli served as dean of George Mason University’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (S-CAR). Dr. Bartoli has been involved in many successful conflicts resolution programs on four continents over the past decades, especially as the representative of the Community of Sant’Egidio to the United Nations and the United States. Dr. Bartoli founded and directed the Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR) at Columbia University where he remains a Senior Research Scholar and teaches courses on conflict resolution. While at CICR, he held the chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Conflict Resolution and served as the faculty coordinator of the Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network. Moreover, after being its Senior Vice President for many years, Dr. Bartoli has been the special representative of the Community of Sant’ Egidio to the United Nations, beginning with the Mozambique peace process (1990–1992). He has played this role in numerous other peacemaking processes, including those in Guatemala (1995), Algeria (1995), Kosovo (1998), Burundi (1999-2000), Democratic Republic of the Congo (1996-current).
Contact: andrea.bartoli@shu.edu
Borislava Manojlovic is the Director of Research Projects and an Adjunct Faculty at the School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University. She is leading the Basque research team at the School of Diplomacy. She also serves as the Secretary-Treasurer of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) and she is a member of IAGS Executive Board. Before joining the School of Diplomacy and International Relations, she has been the Director of Research of the Genocide Prevention Program at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University. Prior to that, Borislava has been working with the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Croatia and Kosovo for more than seven years.
As the Director of Research, she has led and implemented numerous research projects that focus on dealing with the past, genocide prevention, forgiveness in governance, conflict management, peacemaking, education in post-conflict contexts, assessment and evaluation of peace programs and plans.
She also has extensive experience in teaching graduate, undergraduate, online and study-abroad courses on conflict analysis and resolution, post-conflict reconstruction, identity-conflicts, international relations at George Mason and Seton Hall Universities. She conducted study abroad courses focusing on memory, conflict and dealing with the past in the aftermath of mass violence and designed original narrative workshops for mitigating violence among youth.
As a Research Fellow at the Georg Eckert Institute in Germany, she explored how memory of atrocities and genocide influence relationships among different ethnic groups in the Balkans. Borislava also serves as the Associate Editor of the Global Studies Journal and Beyond Intractability Collaborative.
Contact
borislavam@gmail.com
borislava.manojlovic@shu.edu
An interest in the Basque region first came to Thomas while pursuing an undergraduate degree in history from West Texas A&M University. While at university, he concentrated on Spain and the Spanish Southwest and wrote a paper comparing the treatment of suspected Basque witches in Spain and France. Personal genealogical research has further given Thomas an appreciation of the Basque people and their culture.
While at the School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Thomas’ concentrations are Global Negotiation and Conflict, and Global Health and Security. It was during a class on conflict that he approached Dr. Manojlovic on his desire to study the Basque Conflict further. This is when he first became aware of Dean Bartoli and Dr. Manojlovic’s work on the Basque Conflict.
Thomas has been a research assistant for Dr. Manojlovic since January 2014. In his spare time and for the Basque Research Team, he enjoys researching the Basque conflict, particularly on topics related to memory and culture. For his final Master’s Project, Thomas is compared secularization in the Basque Country and Catalonia. Thomas is currently an Administrative Aide at the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University.
Ryan Triche is an African regional specialist focusing on governance, conflict mediation, human rights, and the responsibility to protect. He is currently undertaking graduate studies at Seton Hall University’s School of Diplomacy in New Jersey, where he is concentrating in post-conflict reconstruction and sustainability. He received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2013.