Paula Ditzel Facci

Paula Ditzel Facci is a researcher, facilitator and practitioner in peace and conflict studies. She teaches at the Unit for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Innsbruck, Austria, and at Instituto Paz e Mente, Brazil, and facilitates workshops on methods of elicitive conflict transformation with focus on dance and movement for students, peacebuilders and communities. She holds a PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University Jaume I, Spain, and was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, Eastern Mennonite University, USA. She is the author of Dancing Conflicts, Unfolding Peaces (2020), and of On Human Potential: Peace and Conflict Transformation Fostered Through Dance (2011) and has co-edited the special issue ?Transrational Perspectives in Peace Education?, of the Journal of Peace Education. She also authored chapters in culture of peace for educators and youth and was a consultant in Reports on Human Rights Education of the InterAmerican Institute of Human Rights, Costa Rica. Paula worked for 5 years with social and educational projects in Brazil, her native country. More info: http://pauladitzelfacci.com/

Paula Ditzel Facci é pesquisadora de paz e facilitadora de métodos criativos de transformação de conflitos. Ela leciona na Unit for Peace and Conflict Studies, na Universidade de Innsbruck, Áustria, e no Instituto Paz e Mente, Brasil, e facilita workshops sobre transformação de conflitos com foco em dança e movimento para estudantes, organizações e comunidades. Ela foi pesquisadora visitante no Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, na Universidade de Notre Dame, e no Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, Estados Unidos. Doutora em Estudos de Paz e Conflitos pela Universidade Jaume I, na Espanha, mestre na mesma área pela Universidade de Innsbruck, e bacharel em Relações Internacionais pela Unesp. Suas publicações recentes incluem Dancing Conflicts, Unfolding Peaces (2020) e Practitioner?s Toolkit: Gender in Peace and Conflict (2020). Paula trabalhou por cinco anos em projetos sociais e educacionais no Brasil. Mais informações em: http://pauladitzelfacci.com/pt/inicial/