Module 6 Session 2 Materials
Dr.Joana Ricarte,
Researcher, University of Coimbra, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research (iiiUC).
Joana Ricarte is an Integrated Researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20) and an Invited Assistant Professor at the PhD program in Cultural Heritage and Museology, both at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. She is also an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Piaget Institute in Viseu, where she coordinates the BA program in IR. Dr. Ricarte collaborates with several international institutions being Associate Researcher at the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies (CCP) of the University of São Paulo (USP), in Brazil; Advisory Board member of the Organisation for Identity and Cultural Development (OICD), in the UK; and elected Governing Board member of the European International Studies Association (EISA), in which she also co-chairs the Standing Section Reimagining Peace Studies at the annual Pan-European Conference.
A historian and political scientist with expertise in identity and conflict studies, her work has been interdisciplinary in the intersection between International Relations, History, Peace Studies, and Political Psychology. She is currently a Principal Investigator (PI) in several research projects including OppAttune - Countering Oppositional Political Extremism through Attuned Dialogue: Track, Attune, Limit (2023-2026), funded by the European Commission through Horizon Europe program; The Margins of the State in the Pandemic: peripheral experiences of human (in)security in Brazil (2020-2026), co-funded by CHRHS Grant of the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies of Brown University, FAPESP and USP; and REPROGRAM-EU: Fostering Inclusive Values, Policies and Identities through Participatory Cultural Programming in the European Union (2022-2025), funded by the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20) research seed grant program.
Dr. Ricarte’s overall work has sought to explain how dynamics of identity, power, and otherness shape protracted social conflicts at both domestic and international levels and how these are related to the maintenance and perpetuation of conflict through time. Her current work has revolved around concepts and topics such as protracted peace processes, othering and dehumanization, everyday extremism, and ontological (in)security. She is the author of the book The Impact of Protracted Peace Processes on Identities in Conflict: the case of Israel and Palestine, published open access by Palgrave Macmillan (2023) in the Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies Series, and co-editor of the book Memory, Trauma and Narratives of the Self: an interdisciplinary approach, published by Edward Elgar (2024), in which she is the author of the chapter “Historical memory, cultural violence, and conflict: the genealogy of dehumanization in Israel and Palestine” discussing the current war in Gaza.
