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: How sovereign actors, influenced by nationalism and militarisation, enact body politics, biopower as necropolitics, and gendered violence on subjected and oppressed bodies, as well as interpersonal and intergenerational transmission of this violence.

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).