Doctoral Students

Ana Tarazona Galvis

Email: ana.tarazona@tuni.fi        ORCID        Supervisor: Anitta Kynsilehto

Research Topic: Decolonizing the understanding of peace and gender in peacebuilding processes from below in Colombia.

Anna Sofia Suoranta

Email: anna.suoranta@tuni.fi        Supervisor: Eeva Puumala

Research Topic: Everyday peace of youth in urban environments.

Anna Sutherland

Email: anna.sutherland@tuni.fi        ORCID          Supervisor: Marko Lehti

Research Topic: The Possibilities of Design Thinking in the Peacebuilding Context.

Anush Petrosyan

Email: anush.petrosyan@tuni.fi         ORCID        Supervisor: Élise Féron

Research Topic: Reconstructing Life in Exile: Memory and the Search for Belonging among Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh

Armenak Tokmajyan

Email: armenak.tokmajyan@tuni.fi          Supervisor: Marko Lehti

Research Topic: Brokers of Stability: Local Intermediaries and State violence in pre-2011 Syria.

Aslihan Oguz

Email: aslihan.oguz@tuni.fi          Supervisor: Marjaana Jauhola

Research topic: Leave No One Behind: A Participatory Ethnography on Immigrants’ Food Sovereignty for Just Transisions and Feminist Peace

Bayan Arouri

Email: bayan.arouri@tuni.fi          Supervisor: Anitta Kynsilehto

Research Topic: Absent stories: Decolonizing understanding of gender among Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon.

Bram J. De Smet

Email: bram.desmet@tuni.fi       ORCID          Supervisor: Tarja Väyrynen

Research Topic: The slow erasure of Indigenous identity, agency, and epistemes, examining these processes as forms of genocide by attrition perpetuated through body politics and biopower.

Cæcilie Svop Jensen

Email: caecilie.svopjensen@tuni.fi         ORCID          Supervisor: Élise Féron

Research Topic: Diasporas and Transportation of Homeland Conflicts: Inter-group Dynamics and Host Country Responses.

Ebru Sevik

Email: ebru.sevik@tuni.fi        ORCID          Supervisor: Eeva Puumala

Research Topic: Encountering Difference: A Socio-Spatial Perspective on Coexistence in Urban Space.

Jutta Martens

Email: jutta.martens@tuni.fi          Supervisor: Marko Lehti

Research Topic: The role of faith based and traditional leaders in the peace processes – Can peace be built on the Western norms.

Giovanna Sanchez Nieminen

Email:  Giovanna.Sanchez@vtt.fi  Supervisor: Marko Lehti

Research topic: Climate Resilient and Just Transitions: Identifying Pathways for Conflict Prevention and Mitigation at the Local and Regional Levels

Juulia Niiniranta

Email: juulia.niiniranta@tuni.fi        ORCID          Supervisor: Anitta Kynsilehto

Research Topic: Peace in the Shadow of Violence – A Visual Study of the Effects of War and Violence on Everyday Peace and Recovery in the Aftermath of Ukrainian War.

Kari Paasonen

Email: kari.paasonen@tuni.fi        ORCID          Supervisor: Marko Lehti

Research Topic: The relationship of unemployment and political instability in the Middle East and North Africa.

Meeri Tiensuu

Email: meeri.tiensuu@tuni.fi        Supervisor: Bruno Lefort

Research Topic: Homeward: exploring co-creation practices towards integration.

Sina Krämer

Email: Sina.kramer@tuni.fi                           Supervisor: Tarja Väyrynen

Research Topic: Gendered conflict trauma and transgenerational transmission in post-conflict societies/protracted conflicts in Southeast Asia

Peppi Heinikainen

Email: peppi.heinikainen@tuni.fi        ORCID            Supervisor: Marko Lehti

Research Topic: United Nations Security Council and Conflict Settlement: Libya and Syria – Norm Contestation and New Great Power Rivalry in UNSC Decision-Making.

Zahra Edalati

Email: zahra.edalati@tuni.fi        ORCID          Supervisor: Tarja Väyrynen

Research Topic: Transnational women’s rights activism and working across differences (case of Iran).