Marta Martinelli

Institut d'Etudes européennes (IEE)

Dr. Marta Martinelli Quille is currently working as Research Fellow at the Pole Bernheim for Peace and Citizenship,
Institute of European Studies, University of Brussels (ULB). Her current research interests are on gender and conflict.

She recently completed her PhD at the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford and at the Institute of European Studies, University of Brussels, on the study of mediation of "intractable conflicts".

Within the framework of the Department of Peace Studies' links to the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute she acts as a project co-ordinator in a joint research endeavor of the two institutes. She collaborates with the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies in Rome and with the Venice Peace Research Foundation; she is also associated to the Institute of International Sociology of Gorizia and with the University of Trieste (Italy).

She is the Convenor of the Commission on Intrastate Conflicts for the International Peace Research Association where she has also delivered papers at the Association's 17th and 18th General Conferences. She has contributed to the training in EU Affairs for Eastern Diplomats organised and sponsored by the European Union held in Cervia (Italy) in October 1999. She has contributed papers and book chapters to all the mentioned institutes. She has been a teaching assistant for different courses in the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford where she is also a member of the research group on Conflict Resolution, Mediation and Peacekeeping at the Centre for Conflict Resolution of the Department of Peace Studies. She is a member of the International Peace Research Association.

Marta Martinelli Quille graduated with distinction in International Affairs and Diplomacy (University of Trieste), holds a Master degree in International Politics and Security Studies and a Diploma in Research Methods (University of Bradford). She has spent some time studying International Human Rights and Refugee Law at the University of Oxford and has been a visiting researcher at the University of Delft (Holland) in the framework of the EU Leonardo Programme. She speaks Italian, English, French and some German. She is married and has two children.

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