Dr. Adriana Salcedo

Director of the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at UPEACE. She is a specialist in conflict transformation and peacebuilding, focusing on conflict, gender, identity, and human mobility. She holds a PhD in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from the Jimmy and Rosslyn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University in Virginia (USA). To obtain this degree, she conducted extensive research on forced displacement, conflict, and the social integration of refugees in the Colombia-Ecuador border areas and in Ecuador's urban centres. She is deeply committed to achieving positive social change through nonviolent means and to strengthening social actors, including grassroots organizations, indigenous communities, and minority groups, through her research and practice. Adriana has taught courses on conflict analysis, collaborative peacebuilding methodologies, mediation, identity conflicts, gender, and human mobility at the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University in Washington, D.C., Boston University and the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar in Quito, Ecuador.