Jesus A. Nuñez

Instituto de Estudios sobre Conflictos y Acción Humanitaria
Institute of Studies on Conflicts and Humanitarian Action
(IECAH), Madrid, SPAIN

 

Jesus Núñez is currently the director of the Institute of Studies in Conflict and Humanitarian Action (IECAH), since its establishment in 2000. He is also investigator in the Studies Unit on Peace and Security (Autonomous University of Madrid) and in the Group of Mediterranean International Studies (TEIM - International Centre Carlos V, Autonomous University of Madrid). He collaborates with the "Informe sobre Mundo Árabe", in Arabian world themes, is annalist of the Transnational Studies Institute (INET, Córdoba) and member of the Executive Committee of the International Security Information Service (ISIS Europe, Brussels). Jesus Núñez is also member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and the Spanish Atlantic Association.

He is author of some books and many articles, most of them on themes related to development co-operation, fragile states, peace and conflicts, international security, migration, humanitarian action and Arabian world, with special geographical focus on the Mediterranean and the Middle East regions.

Jesus Núñez has developed several assessor and consulting works to Spanish official organisms ( Government Presidency, External Relations Ministry, Defence Ministry), as well as to private and non-governmental ( Doctors without Borders - Spanish, Intermón-Oxfam, NGOs Coordination, IPADE). He also been evolved in several investigation projects, namely: "Geopolitics of the Energy in the Mediterranean" (Ministry of Defense, 2002), "the Euro-Mediterranean Conference of Valecia" (Intermón-Oxfam, 2002), "Challenges to the Consolidation of the European Union (security and defence)" (Ministry of Defence, 2001), and direction and development of the project on "Social Networks as Support to an Integral Development" (Forum de Migrants de l'UE, 2001).

Jesus Núñez has also collaborated with several Universities in their undergraduate and postgraduate courses, being main teacher in several of them, namely: course on "Co-operation and Security in the Mediterranean" (Doctoral programme in Mediterranean International Studies, Autonomous University of Madrid); course on "Changes in the Security Policy" and "Economy and Defence" (Doctoral programme in Economics and International Relations, Autonomous University of Madrid); course on "Specialist in International Information and South Countries" (Complutense University of Madrid); "Master in European Union's Studies" (Universitary Institute Salvador de Madariaga, University of Coruña); "Master in International Solidarity Action of Europe" (Universitary Institute of International and European Studies Francisco Vitoria, University Carlos III); expert course on "Inequality, Co-operation and Development" (Complutense University of Madrid); "Master in Development and International Aid" (Complutense International Studies Institute, Complutense University of Madrid); "Master in Development Co-operation and Management of NGOs" (University of Córdoba and Intermón-Oxfam); international "Master in Peace Studies and Development (University Jaime I, Castellón de la Plana), among others.

In the framework of the ESDP Democracy Project, Jesus Núñez is the Project Representative of IECAH.

 
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