Maria Hadjipavlou
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Maria Hadjipavlou is an associate professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cyprus. She teaches Comparative Politics, Gender Studies, Conflict Resolution, International Peace and Security, and the Cyprus Conflict from a multi-disciplinary perspective. She was educated in Cyprus, the United Kingdom and the United States. She has a Ph.D in Social and Political Change, Boston University, U.S.A (1987). She was a post-doctoral student at Harvard University (1991-93). She was a visiting scholar at the school of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, U.S.A, (1996-97), where with Dr. Andrea Bartoli founded the Center of International Conflict Resolution (CICR)and she continues to be a senior research associate and supervisor to graduate students who work on Cyprus.
She has facilitated and designed numerous conflict resolution workshops among different social groups from both Cypriot communities. She is a founding member and president for ten years of the non-governmental organization, the Cyprus Peace Center (1999-2008); a founding member of the first independent Cypriot Women’s NGO, “Hands Across the Divide” (2001) and its current president. She is a consultant and member of expert teams at the Council of Europe on issue of inter-cultural dialogue and equality between men and women. She is a trainer for UNFPA and trained women in Afghanistan, Tunisia and Bradislava on gender and conflict resolution. She is a trainer for WINPEACE (Women’s Initiatives for Peace, Greece and Turkey) for the students’ educational peace camps.
She has published widely in the areas of conflict resolution, the Cyprus conflict, women and peace, ethnic stereotypes, the ‘crossings’, women and migration, etc. She coordinated a pioneer research project on “Women in All Cypriot Communities” and a Report was published on these findings in English, Greek and Turkish. (2004). This project was funded by the European Union. She has coordinated the youth camp “Coexistence and Diversity Matter” funded by UNDP-ACT, 2006 and numerous other youth peace camps with students from Cyprus, Greece and Turkey in 2007-2011.. Her book, titled “Women and Change in Cyprus: Feminisms, and Gender in Conflict.”, was published by I.B. Tauris Press , in 2010.
Her research interests include international conflict resolution, gender and conflict, feminist theories, memory and reconciliation, gender and migration, women and peace.