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María Villellas Ariño

María Villellas Ariño has been a researcher for the Conflict and Peacebuilding Programme at the Escola de Cultura de Pau (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) since 2002. Her area of expertise is conflict and peacebuilding in South Asia, as well as gender and peacebuilding. She has done field research in Haiti, Sri Lanka, Nepal and north-east India. She lectures in gender and peacebuilding at several Spanish universities. She has co-authored the last nine editions of Alert! Report on Conflicts, Human Rights and Peacebuilding and is also co-author of 1325 Mujeres Tejiendo la Paz (1325 Women Weaving Peace) . She holds a master’s in Women, Gender and Citizenship Studies from the Inter-University Institute of Women’s Studies and Gender Research.

Publications

Liberal Peace in Question: Politics of State and Market Reform in Sri Lanka: María Villellas Ariño 6 August 2011
Why did liberal peace fail in Sri Lanka? Why did a peace process that gained so much international attention and support and brought the parties to the peace table not succeed? The authors of Liberal Peace in Question , edited by Kristian Stokke and Jayadeva Uyangoda, analyse from a critical perspective why the ingredients of th... more