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Mateos Martín, Oscar
Email: omateosm@gmail.com
Research Area: Conflicts and peacebuilding · International development aid
Research Interests: conflict and peacebuilding · international development aid · poverty and inequality · Sierra Leone · social movements
Biography
Professor of the Faculty of Social Education and Social Work at the Universitat Ramon Llull, where he is Associate Dean for Research and International Relations.
PhD in International Relations with European mention, from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Postgraduate on Culture of Peace and degree in Political Science and Administration.
He has been visiting professor at the University of Sierra Leone (Fourah Bay College) between 2006 and 2008. He has worked in the School of Peace Culture (UAB) several years and worked with organizations such as Doctors Without Borders in Southern Sudan or Conciliation Resources in Sierra Leone.
He has a blog titled Todo es posible, where he puts some of his academic work and reflections. His Twitter account is @oscarmateos1.
Research interests: armed conflict, post-conflict peacebuilding, post-war reconstruction, international interventions, development cooperation, international relations, social movements and social change, analysis of the causes of poverty and social inequalities
Country of specialisation: Sierra Leone
Publications
- “África, epicentro de una realidad cambiante”, Centre d'Estudis de Temes Contemporanis / Centre for Contemporary Studies. Generalitat de Catalunya., 2022.
- China in Africa: Assessing the Consequences for the Continent’s Agenda for Economic Regionalism, Politics and Governance, 2022.
- Brújulas sobre África. Miradas para desaprender la región subsahariana, Catarata, 2021.
- “Understanding Niger Delta’s violence from a World-Ecology perspective”, ResearchGate, 2021.
- Peace, Conflicts and Security in the Anthropocene: Rupture and Limits, Revista de Estudios en Seguridad Internacional, 2021.
- Detrás del Ébola. Una aproximación multidisciplinar a una cuestión global, Bellaterra, 2016.
- La crisis del Ébola y la construcción del Estado en África Subsahariana, CIDOB, 2015.
- África Subsahariana en el nuevo contexto multipolar, Cristianisme i Justícia, Cuaderno CJ nº 193, 2015.
- ¿Una nueva era para África? Nuevos desafíos y perspectivas sobre paz y seguridad en África, Los Libros de la Catarata, 2015.
- El sueño liberal en África Subsahariana. Debates y controversias sobre la construcción de la paz, Los Libros de la Catarata y Casa África, 2013.
- Más Allá de la Barbarie y de la Codicia. Historia y política en las guerras africanas, Bellaterra, 2012.
- Paz y seguridad en África Subsahariana, Los Libros de la Catarata y Casa África, 2009.