Visiting Faculty

UPEACE relies in its face-to-face teaching on a mix of resident and visiting professors. Visiting professors are distinguished Academicians and Practitioners in fields related to UPEACE's mission, and do come from allover the world, hence contribute to the multicultural life of UPEACE. The following alphabetic list is of visiting professors expected to teach during the academic year 2006 - 2007. The list includes their affiliations and their nationalities:

 

Department of International Law and Human Rights

• Jorge Esquirol
  Florida International University College of Law
  (United States)
• Juan Amaya Castro
  Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Center for Migration Law, Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam
  (Colombia)
• Hassan El Menyawi
  PHD Candidate, New York University
  (Canada)
• Noam Ebner
  Creighton University School of Law
  (Israel-United States)
• Federico Martinez
  Associate Legal Officer, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), San José Office
  (Costa Rica)
• Leo Zwaak
  Utrecht University
  (Netherlands)
• Frans Jacobus Viljoen
  University of Pretoria
  (South Africa)
• Kaveh Khoshnood
  Yale School of Medicine
  (Iran/United States)
• Olger Gonzalez
  Inter American Court of Human Rights
  (Costa Rica)
• Gudmundur Eiriksson
  (Iceland)

Department of Peace and Conflict Studies

• Tatiana Benavides
  (Costa Rica)
• Gerald Caplan
  Institute for Media, Peace and Security
  (Canada)
• David Davis
  George Mason University
  (United States)
• Daniel Dor
  Tel-Aviv University
  (Israel)
• Ronald Fisher
  American University
  (Canada)
• Daoud Kuttab
  Al-Quds University in Ramallah, Palestine
  (Palestine)
• Ingrid A. Lehmann
  University of Salzburg, Austria
  (Austria)
• Jenny Ranson
  Sarajevo School of Science and Technology
  (United Kingdom)
• Francisco Sagasti
  FORO Nacional/Internacional
  (Peru)
• Philip Seib
  Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  (United States)
• Keith Spicer
  International Consultant
  (Canada)
• Fred Wehling
  Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) / Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS)
  (United States)

Department of Gender and Peace Education

• Mohammed Abu-Nimer
  American University
  (Palestine-United States) *
• Lorena Aguilar
  World Conservation Union
  (Costa Rica)
• Alicia Cabezudo
  International Office of Human Rights and Peace Programs / Rosario Town Hall, Argentina
  (Argentina)
• Eliana Carvalho
  (Brazil/USA)
• Matthew Norton
  Yale University
  (United States) *
• Nadine Puechguirbal
  United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH)
  (France) *
• Sara Sharratt
  International Consultant
  (Costa Rica)
• Thomas Turay
  St. Francis Xavier University
  (Sierra Leone)

Department of Environment, Peace and Security

• Guntra Aistara
  (Latvia/USA)
• Michael Brklacich
  Carleton University
  (Canada)
• Eric Fuchs
  Professor at the Universidad de Costa Rica
  (Costa Rica)
• Maarten Kappelle
  Department of Geography of the University of Tennessee / Latin America Program of the The Nature Conservancy
  (The Netherlands)
• Reginald Noble
  Knowledge Development Centre / Ryerson University
  (United Kingdom)
• Marco Quesada Marine
  Program Coordinator for Conservation International's Costa Rican Program
  (Costa Rica)
• Jeffrey Stark
  Foundation for Environmental Security and Sustainability (FESS)
  (USA)
• Katsuaki Terasawa
  Foundation for Environmental Security and Sustainability (FESS)
  (Japan)

(*) indicates that the Visiting Faculty member teaches in more than one Department.