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Marianna Espinós Blasco has a multidisciplinary profile. Her interests include: international law, gender, communication and peace and conflict studies. Her doctoral project at the Transitional Justice Institute is under the rubric of Gender, Justice, and Security –part of the Research Hub on Gender, Justice and Security (GCRF).
Her PhD project focuses on the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda, a global agenda composed by a set of 10 resolutions, crafted under the UN Security Council, and aimed to mainstream gender in peace and security. The thesis aims to explore how gender and race (whiteness/coloniality), as forms of social identity but also discursive power relations, are visually constructed in narratives of peace and violence.
Before starting her PhD, Marianna was part of the international think tank European Institute of the Mediterranean (2021), working in the digital communications department. Moreover, Marianna has a long experience in collaborating with grassroots and international organisations standing for human rights, sexual and reproductive rights, feminism and decolonial approaches. Marianna holds an LL.M in Gender, Conflict and Human Rights (Transitional Justice Institute), and two graduate diplomas: one in Conflicts and Social Movements Communication and another one in Peace Culture (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). She has a bachelor’s degree in Communication.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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