Vanessa Tinker

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Vanessa Tinker is a lecturer at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw for the Department of International Relations.  She holds a Ph.D. in International Conflict Analysis from the University of Kent, UK.  She has over ten years of international experience as a researcher, teacher, trainer, coordinator and manager of peace and conflict studies-based programs in Asia Minor, the Balkans, Eastern and Central Europe. She is a specialist in international conflict analysis, gender mainstreaming, peace education, peacebuilding, and conflict transformation in conflict-sensitive and/or post-conflict contexts.

Before joining Collegium Civitas in 2109, she was the Program Coordinator and Assistant Professor of the MA Peace and Conflict Studies at the Social Sciences University of Ankara (ASBÜ) from 2015-2019. In 2017 she served as the Project Manager on behalf of ASBÜ and in collaboration with International Organization for Migration (IOM) for the Executive Training Certificate on Psychosocial Support and Conflict Transformation that ran for six months consisting of twenty Syrian and fifteen Turkish humanitarian workers.   

Some of her most recent publications relating to peace studies include: “The Role of Education in Turkey’s Intractable Conflict and Failed Peace Process.” In Building the Future of the State: Tradition, Reality, Progress, edited by Joanna Marszałek-Kawa. Toruń, Poland: Adam Marszałek Publishing House, (2021); “Turkey-US Relations in the Context of the Syrian Conflict: From Cooperation to Confrontation”, Strategic Review (2020); “Peace Education as a Post-Conflict Peace-Building Tool,” All Azimuth, Volume, Number (2016); and “Education for Peace: The Politics of Adopting and Mainstreaming Peace Education Programs in a Post-Conflict Setting (Academica Press 2015).