Team
Together with the Working Group Co-Leaders, the core-group team coordinates the actions of the PEACE network.
Nils Duquet is the chair of the PEACE Network and director of the Flemish Peace Institute. He has been working at the Flemish Peace Institute since 2006 and has authored more than 50 policy-oriented and academic publications on arms trafficking and gun violence in Europe, domestic gun policies and European arms export controls.
Anush Petrosyan is a member of the research project Re-(E)MBody and a Doctoral Researcher at Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI), Tampere University in Finland. Her doctoral research focuses on the experiences of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, exploring themes of memory of the place and the search for belonging in exile. Within the Re-(E)MBody Project she investigates the issue of enforced disappearances in the context of the Armenian - Azerbaijani conflict. Anush also serves as an Editorial Board Member for Journal of Disappearance Studies, and is the Grant Award Coordinator for the PEACE network. She is associated with Working Groups 2 and 3.
Merel Selleslach is a researcher at the Flemish Peace Institute, focusing on how small countries promote peace in their foreign policy. Her latest research focuses on possible Flemish contributions to the reconstruction of Ukraine. She holds degrees in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Antwerp and Université Libre de Bruxelles. Previously, she worked in civil society on disarmament and peaceful conflict alternatives. For the PEACE network Merel will take up the position of Young Researchers and Innovators Outreach Coordinator.
Paula Duarte Lopes is the Vice-Chair of the COST PEACE network. She is a Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies and an International Relations Professor at the School of Economics, University of Coimbra (Portugal). She is interested in peace promoting global interventionism, with experience in water conflicts, development aid and peace missions contributions to peacebuilding. She has conducted research world wide: Bolivia, Brasil, Canada, France, Guiné-Bissau, Moçambique and Timor-Leste. She also has three decades-long experience in supervising Masters’ and Doctoral researchers.
