People

Francesca Aloi is currently undertaking a PhD co-tutorship, working towards a double degree in Pedagogical Sciences at the University of Bologna (UNIBO) and in Anthropology and Sociology at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM).

She coordinated as a facilitator the 2022-2023 Lab of Social Theater of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology UCM within the INSOCTEA Teaching Innovation Project. In Germany, she was certified by the Qualification Program in Theatre of the Oppressed of KURINGA - Space for Theatre of the Oppressed in Berlin.

Previously, she earned a BSc. in Educational Sciences from the University of Milan Bicocca (UNIMIB) in 2016 and an MSc in Violence, Conflict and Development at SOAS University of London in 2017.

Dr. Carmen Hassoun Abou Jaoudé is a political scientist and associate researcher at the Center for the Study of the Modern Arab World at Saint-Joseph University of Beirut where she teaches transitional justice with a focus on the issue of the missing in Lebanon. She is also a lecturer at the American University of Beirut and the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik in Lebanon. She worked with the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) where she served as Head of its program and as Head of its office in Lebanon between 2011 and 2015. She managed at ICTJ a multiyear project entitled “Lebanon: Addressing the Legacy of Conflict in a Divided Society” and overviewed its reports and policy recommendations issued in 2014 by a consortium of Lebanese civil society actors, Confronting the Legacy of Political Violence in Lebanon : an Agenda for Change. She was between 2016 and 2022 an active Board member of the NGO Act for the Disappeared. She is member of The National Commission for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared in Lebanon since July 2020.

She holds a PhD and MA in political sciences from the University of Montpellier in France and a BA in journalism from the Lebanese University. Her fields of research include Lebanon post-war memory, the issue of the missing people and transitional justice. She co-produced in 2023 a documentary on gravesites in Lebanon “The Soil and the Sea” directed by Daniele Rugo.

Her latest publications include “Marginal memories of Lebanon's civil war: challenging hegemonic narratives in a small town in North Metn”, co-authored with Daniele Rugo. Journal of the British Academy, June 2021 9(s3), 11. She co-edited a special issue Lebanon: The civil war in retrospect and authored an article "The opportunities and challenges of transitional justice in Lebanon: The centrality of the issue of the disappeared or The Chronicle of an Unfinished War", Confluences Méditerranée, vol. 112, no. 1, 2020, pp. 207-223.

Mayada Abdallah is ARMA Project Officer. She holds a BA in Political Science from the Lebanese University and an MA in International Cooperation for Peace and Development.

Mayada has been active board member of several civil organisations, such as the Lebanese Committee for Environment and Development (LCED), the Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections (LADE), and the Civil Society Movement (CSM).

Jihad Nammour is the programme's Academic Coordinator. He is a lecturer at the Institute of Political Sciences. Legal theory and Political sociology are his areas of study. Jihad holds a DEA in Law and Political Science from Saint Joseph University and a DEA in Jurisprudence from Paris Nanterre University. His latest research focuses on forced migration. He develops educational programmes within several Lebanese NGOs, including Sakker el Dekkene and Peace Initiatives.

Filippo Del Lucchese è professore associato di Filosofia Politica all’Università di Bologna e Senior Research Associate, Università di Johannesburg. La sua ricerca verte sulla prima modernità, dal Rinascimento all’Illuminismo, la storia del pensiero politico e il marxismo. È stato Marie Curie fellow e ha studiato nelle università di Pisa e Paris IV (Sorbonne). È autore di Tumulti e Indignatio. Conflitto, diritto e moltitudine in Machiavelli e Spinoza (Ghibli, 2004, tradotto in più lingue), The Political Philosophy of Niccolò Machiavelli (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), e Monstrosity and Philosophy: Radical Otherness in Greek and Latin Culture (Edinburgh University Press, 2019). Ha pubblicato diversi articoli sulla storia della filosofia politica moderna su riviste quali History of Political Thought, European Journal of Political Theory, Dialogue, International Studies in Philosophy, Differences. Ha insegnato in Italia, Francia, Libano, Stati Uniti e Regno Unito. La sua ricerca attuale è sui tema della mostruosità nella filosofia moderna e su conflitto, memoria e violenza politica.

Alessandro Tolomelli PhD is Associate Professor at Bologna University.

His main fields of research are Professional Epistemology in the field of education, social and community development, Empowerment approach apply to Education, Theatre and Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Community based approach to face with Early Education path Leaving.

Massimiliano Tarozzi (PhD) is UNESCO Chair in Global Citizenship Education in Higher Education (https://unescochairgced.it/en/ ). He is currently full professor at the Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies, where he teaches in the areas of General Education and Global Citizenship Education. Chair of the International Research Centre on Global Citizenship Education, he is also in the Board of the PhD in Sport, Health and Wellbeing, University of Bologna (Rimini branch).

He was Co-director of the Development Education Research Centre at the Institute of Education, University College London, where he has been appointed as Visiting Professor.

He has been visiting professor in many international universities including UCLA, Beijing Normal University, São Paulo University.

He is currently Co-Editor of “Encyclopaideia” and of the book series “Advances in Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship” (London: Bloomsbury).

In addition to a number of scientific articles, he has written or edited more than 20 books in the field of intercultural and Global citizenship education and qualitative research methods.

Manuela Filomena Ottaviani is collaborator and tutor of the chair of Moral Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Communication Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna and associate professor at the Faculty of Performing Arts of the University of Arras. PhD student in international co-supervision with the University of Arras with a thesis entitled: "LE CORPS JOYEUX. Eugenio Barba's theatrical practice in the light of Spinoza's philosophy". Graduated in ancient philosophy at the University of Milan with two specialization masters, one in communication and information technologies for the humanities and the other in theater education, she combines her research activity with a practice activity and theater pedagogy.

Daniele Rugo is an award winning documentary filmmaker and scholar, Reader in Film at Brunel University and a Fellow at the London School of Economics. His latest film is 'The Soil and the Sea' (2023) and he’s currently working on a book project on film and political violence.

Carla Inguaggiato is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bologna and an Associated Senior Research Scientist at the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) at University of Bern. She has a political science background and a PhD in Local Development and Global Dynamics from the University of Trento. She has worked at the interface of several disciplines such as political science, geography, development economics, anthropology and education. She has done fieldwork research in Mozambique, Brazil, Argentina and Italy. She has studied diverse actors, including small farmers’ organizations, agri-businesses, local authorities, indigenous peoples, state agencies, international organizations, development cooperation agencies and NGOs. She has been analysing contexts that are the crossroad between contrasting belief systems: Brazilian agrarian reform, policy forest governance in Argentina, Global Citizenship Education. She uses mixed methods research design especially social network analysis and advocacy coalition framework to study organizations’ behaviour and discourse to understand the implementation process of public policy programs that aim at societal transformation both in the educational and environmental domain. She has a strong intercultural experience as she has lived, worked, studied, in eight countries and she is fluent in 4 foreign languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese and French).

Cinzia Venturoli has a Ph.D. in History and has been a research fellow, she is an adjunct professor at the Department of Educational Sciences (University of Bologna) at which she teaches courses and workshops. She is responsible for didactics for the Archivi per non dimenticare network and for the Association among the families of the victims of August 2. She is involved in history didactics, refresher courses for teachers and conducts history workshops in schools of all levels.

She has worked on the history of World War II, the Resistance and the postwar period, local history, women's history, school history, and for many years has been working specifically on the history of the 1970s, looking at political movements, terrorism, society, and the relationship between history and memory publishing essays and monographs, elaborating historical documentary exhibitions and multimedia products. He has developed public history projects.

I am a student in the Master of Philosophy degree course at the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna. I am enthusiastic about the idea of participating in the mobility project because I am convinced that it will allow me to become actively aware of issues related to trauma and the memory of violence in a post-conflict context different from my own, as well as to find out more about transitional justice and gain concrete experience in global citizenship. I am looking forward to meeting and engaging with the Lebanese team.

"I am a second-year student in the Philosophy master degree in UniBo. In addition to an innate curiosity, what drives me is studying and understanding human beings in all their complexity. Encountering the philosophical and anthropological disciplines has led me to learn new concepts and gain a deeper understanding of what I took for granted; on the other hand, volunteering and theater have always moved me to go beyond words and theory". 

Matteo Cavalleri holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of Milan and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Palermo. He has been a visiting researcher at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin and a fellow at the Department of Law of the University of Bergamo. In 2015 he won the Vittorio Sainati Prize. He is currently a research fellow at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Communication of the same university. His research interests are developed at the intersection of theoretical analysis and philosophical-political inquiry, with particular reference to the work of G.W.F. Hegel and the theme of freedom; the relationship between philosophical anthropology and the historical dimension; the aesthetics and politics of memory and the dialogue between philosophy and literature. He is the author of La Resistenza al nazi-fascismo. Un’antropologia etica (Mimesis, 2015) and La libertà nella necessità. Saggio sullo spirito oggettivo hegeliano (ETS, 2019). He edited the volume Il due in questione. Prospettive interdisciplinari sul riconoscimento (Università di Bologna, 2020) and co-edited the anthology M. Tronti, The Demon of Politics (il Mulino, 2017).

I am a master's student in Philosophical Sciences at Unibo. Passionate about politics, literature and cinema, I am currently working on a master's thesis about the late European Renaissance, comparing Machiavelli and La Boétie (supervisor: Prof. F. Del Lucchese); from Sept. to Nov. 2023 I will study at CESR (Centre d'études supérieurs de la Renaissance) - Université de Tours to further this research.
I am also trainee at the International Centre for Spinozian Studies SIVE NATURA and I took an active part in the final design and organisation phase of the "Global South 22-23" project. Themes such as conflict, freedom and justice have always been at the centre of my scientific and personal interests.

I am a human rights activist with a background in economics and a master's student in democracy and human rights at Saint Joseph University in Beirut. I have previous experience working in conflict-affected areas and supporting traumatized individuals. With a deep commitment to justice, I aim to contribute to addressing the issue of the missing and forcibly displaced people in Lebanon, specifically focusing on the rights of families affected by the loss of their loved ones. Through the exchange programme, I seek to gain knowledge and contribute to ongoing efforts in transitional justice. My dedication stems from her passion for making a positive impact and seeking justice for affected families.

I am a Master's student in the Arab Master in Democracy and Human Rights program at Saint Joseph University-Beirut.

With over 20 years of senior management expertise and training in microfinance and development, I currently serve as the project operations manager of The World Bank's (B5) Fund grant.

This grant aims to support the socio-economic recovery of vulnerable individuals and businesses affected by the Port of Beirut explosion.

Studying human rights and democratisation is my passion, driven by my personal experience in a country plagued by various human rights violations. I am dedicated to making a positive impact, advocating for the rights of vulnerable communities, and fostering governmental accountability.

I am a Tunisian research master's student in Public law who is currently working on my master's thesis on “human rights and liberties limitations” in Tunisia at Carthage University. I hold a Bachelor's degree in Public Law from the same institution in Tunis.

During the Spring Semester of 2023, I joined the Arab master’s in Human Rights and Democracy at Saint Joseph University of Beirut as an exchange student. An opportunity that has enabled me to learn more about politics, history and the human rights situation in Lebanon and the Middle East in general. Through the programme courses, research but also by listening to testimonies of people affected by the war, I became eager to hear more about the hidden collective memory of the civil war in Lebanon and shed the light on related issues such as mental health and thus the importance of reconciliating with the past in order to move forward.

My name is Marion Bachmann, I am a French student currently enrolled in the ArMA program. Before joining the Master in Beirut, I was a student in International Relations and Political Sciences at ESPOL, Lille. I am extremely glad to part of this exchange program. It has allowed us to understand more deeply the situation of Lebanon in a post-conflict context, but also has shown us and taught us the importance of transitional justice.

I am a filmmaker and photojournalist, with 10 years of experience in Communication Arts. From communication planning to working in the film sector as a producer, editor, videographer,photographer, scriptwriter and actress. I have been curious about indulging in all parts of films and documentary-making in order to have a clear insight into how to apply a creative vision to an artistic piece. Since 2015, I have dedicated my experience to NGO sector. Filmed causes and stories for fundraising purposes. as well as been on several missions outside Lebanon to interview victims of war and poverty. This made me an active person in filming for human rights causes. One of the works I filmed were “ we will rise again” and “ 11 hours” which were inspired by stories from

Beirut explosion that took place in 2020. This triggered me to enroll in ARMA programme to expand my knowledge and be able to address issues around these subjects related to human rights through art.

I graduated with a bachelors and master's degree in clinical psychology from the lebanese university. Three years since the uprising, i grew an utmost belief that the "personal is political". We cannot target individual wellbeing without tackling the environment we live through more comprehensive policies that respect human rights. This motivation drove me to join the Arab Masters in Democracy and Human rights at Saint Joseph University, instritutionalizing the fight for builing back what is left from this country.

Umberto Pantarelli received a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy in 2019 and a Master’s Degree in Semiotics in 2022. Currently, he is doing a PhD in Semiotics, focusing on alternative teaching-learning processes based on a non-dualistic perspective of the mind-body opposition and on an idea of knowledge as an open universe to explore, combining innovational practices and changing habits in learning. He has a polyhedric character and he is a sensitive guy. Readings books, watching movies and playing table games are some of the hobbies he loves to do in his spare time, but he is definitely a sports guy. He is future-oriented and he wishes to travel the world before pouring out his energy into teaching and innovation projects for the school educational system. He is proud of young generations that struggle for a better future on our planet, even if this seems for the majority of people useless.

Guido received his bachelor's degree in 2022 in philosophy. He continued the natural course by enrolling in a Master of Philosophy degree. However, his interests are also varied. His passion for anthropology leads him to travel extensively, trying to grasp aspects of the experience of other people, cultures and peoples. He undertook to write his Master's thesis, in the field of moral philosophy and philosophical anthropology, on animal and environmental ethics, a subject close to his heart and of primary interest to him for a better future. This research will take him to South America in 2023, and to Greece in 2024. The desire to understand and help others is a source of great effort and passion for what he studies, hoping one day to be useful and happy for what he gives back to others