Stephany Carrillo is an Immigration Consultant at Monarca Canadian Immigration Ltd. She worked as a Research Associate and Editor for the FIDUCIA Project at the University of Parma, where she further developed her research on human trafficking. She has a Degree in Communications and Latin American Studies from Simon Fraser University, and a LL.M in International Crime and Justice from the University of Turin and UNICRI (2014).

Flavia is a lawyer by profession and has a Law Degree from the University of Roma Tre and a Master in “International Protection of Human Rights” from the University of Rome La Sapienza. She completed also the specialization course “Scenarios of Organized Crimes” from the University of Milan. She speaks English, French, Spanish, German and Arabic. She has worked at the Chamber of Deputies, the Sicilian Region and is currently the Executive Officer in the Secretariat of the Permanent Conference for Relations between the State, Regions and Autonomous Provinces of Trento and Bolzano of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. Within Libera ONLUS she is part of the memory section working on informative and dissemination meetings with students. She has been conducting study visit in Mexico, Argentina and Colombia to focus on the crimes committed in the last decades. She has been conducting study visit in Mexico, Argentina and Colombia to focus on the crimes committed in the last decades. She has been always cultivated her interest in anti-mafia related matters. In collaboration with the journalist Simone Mercurio, she has realized the documentary "Tra due fuochi" about her father, the lawyer Serafino Famà, who had been killed in Catania on November 9, 1995, because he refused to embrace the mafia boss' requests.

Anna is a Marie Curie research fellow with the Danish Institute Against Torture (DIGNITY) and a senior research associate with the South African Research Chair in Social Change, University of Johannesburg. She received her doctorate in Department of social anthropology, Lund University, Sweden, May 2014,. Anna’s research centers on the anthropology of conflict and violence. Her PhD thesis was an in-depth ethnographic study of armed groups, analyzing the trajectories of violence in the Eastern Congo (DRC). She is currently working on a project on exchange relations of violence. Anna has also conducted research on sexual and gender based violence in conflict areas in the Pacific region (Papua New Guinea, Autonomous region of Bougainville, Solomon Islands) as part of a UN project.

Originally from Romania, Anca holds an LL.B. from the Nicolae Titulescu University of Bucharest, and an MSc in International Crimes and Criminology, from Vrije University, in Amsterdam. After graduation, Anca worked and collaborated with Romania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the European Union Delegation to the United Nations in New York City, and with a non-profit organization that offers resettlement assistance to North Korean refugees, in Los Angeles and Seoul. Subsequently, Anca joined the Rule of Law Program of The Hague Institute for Global Justice, and later on, the Immediate Office of the Registrar of the International Criminal Court. Anca is mainly interested in International Law, geopolitics, and victims’ issues.

Francesca obtained a Law Degree from the University of Cagliari (2007) and a PhD in Criminal Law and Procedure from the University of Padua (2013). She became a lawyer in 2010, and specializes in the interaction between national and international criminal law and human rights. She spent several periods of study and research abroad (The UK, Austria, The Netherlands), where she analysed in depth the relationship between mass atrocity crimes, fight against impunity and transitional justice. Author of several scientific papers, lecturer and member of the European Society of Criminology, Francesca is mainly interested in International Criminal Justice, human rights and issues related to cooperation and development in countries hit by conflicts.

Giulio Coppi has a Law Degree from the University of Rome La Sapienza, and a Master in International Law of Armed Conflict from the Geneva Academy, Giulio for more than 8 years has been working for the ICRC, UN, OSCE and several NGOs, across four continents and ten countries, five of which have been hit by an armed conflict. He is truly committed to develop innovation projects in the fields of development and humanitarian aid.

Lawyer and criminologist. After graduating in Law (2000), he obtained a postgraduate degree in Criminal Law at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (2004) and a PhD in Criminology at the University "Alma Mater Studiorum" of Bologna (2009). He is an "expert" of the Italian Parliament Commission of Inquiry on the phenomenon of the Mafia and other criminal organizations, including foreign ones. He was member of the Technical-Scientific Observatory for Security and Legality of the Regione Lazio (2005-2010) and a member of the Italian Society of Criminology, Italian Association of Sociology of Law, Italian Society of Victimology. Teacher in the Training School "Giovanni Falcone" for Police Corps Prison Administration, in the Official School of the Arma dei Carabinieri, in the School of the State Police, in the CEPOL (European Police College). He is the author of the following monographs: (with other authors), The Terror dates. The genesis of Italian terrorism and subversion microclimate 1945-2003. The principles of criminal law in the doctrine of Giuliano Vassalli, and of numerous publications on legal and criminological matters. He works with institutional and private organizations focusing on analysis and contrast of criminal organizations.

Fiorella Perrone obtained a Degree in Political Science from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, and a Master in International Protection of Human Rights at the University of Rome La Sapienza, and a Master in Diplomatic Studies at the SIOI. She has later on earned a PhD in History of Relations and International Organizations at the University of Salento.

With a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Management from King’s College London, a Master’s in Public Health from the University of Liverpool and a PhD in Geography, from Royal Holloway, UoL, Sorayya is a social scientist with extensive research undertaken in South Asia and West Africa, including on Afghan Refugees in Pakistan for UNHCR. She undertook a course on Health Emergencies in Large Population at the International Red Cross in Geneva.

Vilmar is a skilled and experienced visual designer and art director from Brazil. He has been working for advertising agencies and international organisations for the past 14 years, in Brazil, South Africa and The Netherlands. As a volunteer for the United Nations, Vilmar has created design projects in English, French, Russian and Fijian for UNDP, UNV, UNAIDS and OCHA in Bangladesh, Cameroon, Fiji, Senegal, United States and Uzbekistan.

With a Degree in Political Sciences (Italy, 2003), and a Masters Degree in Asian Studies (Sweden, 2007), Giorgio has been working with a number of humanitarian and development NGOs in 7 hardship and/or post-conflict countries including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. As Rotary Peace Fellow in 2010, he then earned a Masters Degree in Peace and Conflict Resolution at the University of Queensland in Australia. More recently, he served as Human Rights Officer with the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA). His areas of expertise are Protection, Migration and Human Rights.

James Weir earned a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from CUNY - the City University of New York. His dissertation, “We Went to the Hills”: Four Afghan Life Stories, is a historical examination of the Afghan-Soviet war. He has been a member of the US Peace Corps based in Pakistan, conducted cultural anthropological fieldwork in Kabul, and directed the Muslim Societies in Asia and the Pacific program at the University of Hawaii.

Graduated in law from the University of La Sapienza in Rome with a thesis on equal treatment in the field of men's and women's workers' rights, Paolo has been working with the national chairmanship of the ANVCG since 1993. He has collaborated with the International Network for Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises (INSME) and for the community developing Open Source software for the Mozilla Foundation.

After graduating in International Relations - War and Security Studies - from Roma Tre University (2013) and obtaining an LLM in International Crime and Justice from UNICRI and University of Turin (2014), Leone worked at the ICTY, in the Military Analysis Team, on the Ratko Mladic case. He then moved to the Office of the Co-Investigating Judges of the ECCC, in Cambodia, as an Assistant Analyst and Investigator. In 2016/2017 Leone worked at the ICC as an Analyst in the CAR case, where he started applying Open Sources Intelligence techniques. Leone is now working on his own project, focusing on OSINT and military analysis, weapons/vehicles analysis, photographic/video/satellite imagery analysis and geolocation.

Journalist. Graduated in Philosophy at the University of Milan, she currently works for a publishing house in Milan. She has been working as a journalist since 2009 for different kind of media (radio, newspapers and online publications) writing articles and essays about health, wellness, politics, crime news, travel, culture and social issues. She is an amateur photographer. She is interested in human rights, migrants, refugees and gender-related issues.

Born in Nairobi (Kenya), she has lived a number of years in various central Africa countries (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria, Gabon, etc) well knowing their culture ; in addition, she has lived in London UK together with her family. Master’s Degree in Law graduating at the University “La Sapienza” in Rome, she has a long experience within international companies where she has covered many roles at all levels. She is currently cooperating with a training language and certification Centre.

Audrey is a video journalist based in the Middle East and covering wide range of stories for news agencies and French television. She is passionate about telling stories and she loves collaborating with NGOs and people involved in making the world a better place in general. By volunteering with L'Osservatorio as a video editor, Audrey wishes to become an actor of change and support the mission of the organization to have an impact on the lives of those in needs.

Annette attained a Master’s degree of Social Science in Peace and Conflict Studies at Uppsala University in 2017. Her work in the field has been mainly related to youth empowerment and education, with work experiences for non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the informal settlements of Kibera (Nairobi, Kenya) and Sweden. She is deeply interested in developmental project design and management, with special attention to equity-focused and gender responsive evaluation of projects. Currently, she lives in Morocco where she works – under the framework of the European Voluntary Service – for an NGO aimed at enhancing political participation of young people in the region of Taroudant.

Graduated in Astrophysics and Cosmology at the University of Bologna, she is now completing her doctoral studies in Astrophysics at the Excellence Cluster Universe in Munich, Germany, where she lives since the end of 2013. She is a passionate traveller and she was always interested in human rights, with particular attention to education as an empowering instrument.

After finishing his Masters in Geopolitics and International Security at King’s College, London, Peter has worked in various roles in West Africa and Cambodia, including at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. Most recently, he has been freelance reporting from across Asia, and editing for various outlets. His ongoing academic interests focus on the post-Soviet world, and especially Europe’s quasi-states.

Holding a Bachelor of Arts in Multilingual Communication, she recently graduated from the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting of the University of Geneva. Fanny is passionate about languages and aspires to work in a multicultural environment. She translates from English and Spanish into French. Her previous experience includes an internship as a translator at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg and a mission as a translator and proofreader for the organisation Unitaid at Geneva.

Clara is a passionate and committed international educator,currently coordinating international programmes and managing international partnerships for a higher education institution in Bruxelles. After spending six years in the UK, she has recently moved to Belgium.From here, she collaborates in a few projects aiming to reduce poverty (globally and locally) and improve access to primary health care and education around the world. Her primary interests lie in: international education and development, global health challenges and human trafficking and integration.

Graduated in International Relations and Diplomacy at the University of Naples l’Orientale, she continued her studies on the effects of conflict on civilian populations with a Master’s degree in Conflict Management from the University of Genoa. She worked as Policy Advisor for Food Security for the Italian Development Cooperation, and since 2015 managed emergency and early recovery initiatives in Syria and Iraq, with Oxfam and the Danish Refugee Council, among others. She is currently working on the Libya humanitarian response.

Graduated in International Relations and Security from the University of Birmingham, Alice obtains a further specialisation in Human Rights at the University of Turin. Meanwhile, she lived in Romania as a volunteer working for children rights and she did an internship in the Netherlands within the OPCW. Moreover, she took part in several NGOs' initiatives, such as Amnesty International, Terres Des Hommes and other local non profit organisations.

Valentina holds a Bachelor of Art in Media and Journalism and a Master of Art in International Relations and European Studies, both obtained with honours from the University of Florence, Italy. She develops and manages research and innovation projects under EU programmes including Horizon 2020, the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme and the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund in the areas of Security, Radicalisation, Counterterrorism and the role of Social Media in extremist propaganda. An Italian native speaker fluent in English and with an intermediate knowledge of French and German, she is especially passionate about the use of media and extremist narratives in the perpetration of violence to civilians, and about the role of non-state actors in state failure and formation.

Graduate in Modern Languages (French and German) with more recent Diploma in Spanish. Career as teacher in secondary, further and higher education, including periods in France and Switzerland. Current interests have moved towards cultural and social studies, particularly on Europe and Latin America.

Maria graduated with a first class honors in a BA in Psychosocial Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2016 she has worked closely with refugees and asylum seekers in the UK, and has recently worked in Turkey to aid in initiating art projects with children undergoing the asylum seeking process through the UNHCR. A Portuguese native speaker fluent in English and Spanish, she has a strong passion for individuals who have suffered as a result of forced displacement.

Graduated in Cooperation, Development and International Studies at the University of Turin. She also studied in Turkey where she had the chance to improve her knowledge about Human Right and Middle East. She is currently working in Berlin for an european project on the integration politics. She is deeply interested in Human Rights, International Cooperation, the migrant flow and the European policies in Middle East and North Africa. She will continue her studies to get a master in humanitarian action and human rights. She hopes to be able to work between Europe and Middle East.

With a Bachelor’s Degree in African Languages and Cultures, she is finalising her Master’s Degree in International Cooperation and Human Rights Protection with a thesis on human rights of sexual minorities. She has always been engaged in the promotion of human rights, social equality, integration, development and LGBT rights through different organizations such as Italian Red Cross, Protezione Civile and Arcigay (Italy's foremost national LGBT rights and human rights organisation). Francesca is very enthusiastic about travelling and learning foreign languages - Italian native speaker, she also speaks English and Swahili fluently and she has a basic knowledge of French.

She graduated in Foreign Languages and is now an International Relations student. She spent several months at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and is currently doing an internship at the British Embassy in Rome. After graduating, she’s planning on continuing her studies in food security and rural development, two fields in which she hopes to work in the future. Native Italian speaker fluent in English, she is studying mandarin Chinese and French.

Brodie is from the UK, and has enjoyed working with a range of charities and research collaborations for several years. Interested in social research, he graduated with a BA in Geography from the University of Durham. He is currently finishing an MSc in Medical Anthropology and Sociology, focusing on assessments in adult social care.

After successfully obtaining her law degree at Bocconi University in Milan, she has been working in international law firms in Italy and in Belgium for the past three years, focusing on global labor and employment law issues. Her research encompasses business and human rights, labour market reforms, labour migration, global trade unions and industrial action. A prize-winning pianist in the past, she combines her love for music and professional experience collaborating with the Belgian Red Cross as piano teacher and co-founder/director of a small choir of refugees and asylum seekers. She has an avid interest in the Middle East and often travels to the region. She is fluent in Italian, German, English and French, and is currently learning Arabic.

Patrizia Parodi has degrees in Veterinary Medicine, Administrative Science, Law and Economics for Enterprises and Public Administrations. Patrizia has also obtained two specializations in animal health and health statistics, along with a Master’s in Innovation and Management of Public Administration. She is currently the Director of the Italian Ministry of Health in Angola.

A researcher, writer and editor, she graduated from the University for Foreigners of Perugia with a BA in International Communication. In 2016, she completed a Master’s programme in Human Rights and Development at the University of Turin. She has attended Summer Schools and Post-graduate courses in London, Madrid and Buenos Aires. Before graduation, she joined the United Nations World Food Programme as a Strategic Communications intern and she is currently working as a Media Monitor in the Communications Unit. She has volunteered online for UNDP, UNISDR and two NGOs based in Africa. An Italian native speaker fluent in English and Spanish, she is passionate about Development, Human Rights, Social Protection, Conflicts, Humanitarian Emergencies and Response.

He is an engineering graduate from India with majors in Information technology. He has been working full-time with a company named Synopsys for the past 3 years. He is also a freelance trek guide in India. He is a native English and Hindi speaker with fluency in German, Spanish, Bengali and Kannada. He has volunteered for multiple NGOs in India mainly for translation and proofreading exercises.

Anna has several years work experience in the field of academic cooperation and higher education policies. Her main responsibilities in her current position include development cooperation, culture and heritage and outreach activities with institutions in the United States and Canada, Africa and the European neighbourhood. She holds a BA in Modern Languages from the University of Manchester and a Master’s degree in European Studies from the University of Amsterdam.

Shona Simpson holds an undergraduate degree in English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley where she graduated with distinction. After obtaining her degree she lived in Malawi, Africa as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer where she addressed nutrition and HIV education issues affecting local people. Half-Kenyan, Shona holds a special love for the continent of her birth. She is a full-time mother of two young girls. Shona appreciates and strives for clear and concise writing that reads fluidly and logically. For many years she has collaborated with a consulting firm to edit evaluation reports and guidelines for the UN and for international NGOs. She speaks Italian at an intermediate-high level, some Spanish, and has basic knowledge of Kiswahili.

Having studied French at University and subsequently obtaining a Master’s in Education, Anne’s career spans both the private and public sectors. She spent eight years with Accenture as a Change consultant, volunteered in Zambia with Voluntary Services Overseas and then joined the British Council in 2004, where she is currently working as a Project Manager in their Corporate Finance division.

Graduated with Honours in English and Literature at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata." With a Ph.D. in English Literature, his main research interests lie in early modern English drama, to which he contributed with some papers and articles, and literary translations. He has worked as an English Literature and Language teacher, and has been a volunteer translator for several non-profit organisations.

Martina holds a Bachelor and a Master Degree in International Relations and Diplomacy from the University of Trieste, Italy. Her studies in Italy included short and long-term stays in France, Czech Republic and Russıa. After one year and a half of work at the European Union in Luxembourg, she pursued an LLM in International Human Rıghts Law from the University of Nottıngham, UK. The completion of this second Master was for her the beginning of a career in the humanitarian field. After 6 months as an peacebuilding intern in Kigali, Rwanda, she joined ACTED to work in Project Development. She recently completed her fırst humanitarian mission in Iraq, and ıs now living and working ın Amman, Jordan, where she contrıbutes to the response to the Syrian crisis. Martina is passionate about human rights and committed to improve the lives of vulnerable indıviduals.

Cassandra has a Bachelor in English and Spanish from the University of Ghana of which a year was spent abroad in Spain at the Universidad de Zaragoza. She is currently rounding up her Masters in International Relations with International Law at the University of Kent, UK, with the intention of starting a career in International Conflict Resolution. She is very passionate about coming up with new and innovative ideas to solve some of the most challenging current issues facing the world today. She is curious about different cultures and it is her personal belief that one vital way to foster a stronger global community is through experiencing the cultures of others and learning their languages.

Having graduated from Trinity College, Oxford in Politics and Philosophy in 1986, she did a conversion course in law at the College of Law in London and then a Master's degree in European Law at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. She has undertaken extensive translation work from Italian and French into English.

Dayle holds bachelor’s degrees in Journalism and Applied Arts from Ryerson University (Toronto, Canada). She has worked as a journalist and editor in both Canada and Australia, and is passionate about freedom of information and human rights. She has travelled the world widely and now lives in Brisbane, where she works as a technical writer in the software industry.

With a Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures from the Universitá Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan and a MA in Gender Studies from the SOAS, University of London, she worked with many LGBTQI NGOs in South America, in which she have been travelling/living for the last 6 years. Trying to match the personal interests with a kind of a nomad way of living, the idea is to share the knowledge acquired through the academic formation on a professional and also human level, in realities that are deeply culturally different from each others and often conflicting. She is author of many publications of gender-related thematics.