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Ray Acheson

Ray Acheson is the Director of Reaching Critical Will, the disarmament programme of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, for which they provide analysis and advocacy at the United Nations and other international forums on matters of disarmament. Ray also serves on the steering groups of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, as well as Stop Killer Robots and the International Network on Explosive Weapons. They have written Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021) and Abolishing State Violence: A World Beyond Bombs, Borders, and Cages (Haymarket Books, 2022).
[ Photo by Tim Wright ]

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Author’s articles:
> Abolishing geopolitics and building a world without state violence

Barbara Adams

Barbara Adams is a Senior Policy Analyst of Global Policy Forum and faculty member of The New School University’s Graduate Program for International Affairs in New York City. Trained as an economist, she is a prolific researcher, teacher, and policy advocate with a long tenure at the United Nations. She specialises in human rights, economic, ecological, social and gender justice, as well as the economic policies needed to reverse the inequalities, insecurities and under-representation of marginalised peoples.

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Author’s articles:
> Keystones for the Future: Unlocking Global Governance Failures of Yesterday and Today

Alfredo Aguilar

Alfredo Aguilar holds a PhD in biochemistry and is former Head of the Units of Biotechnology and International Scientific Cooperation at the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation of the European Commission in Brussels. He played a key role in the development of the European Bioeconomy Strategy, as well as in the creation of the Joint Undertakings «Innovative Medicines Initiative» and «Bio-based Industries». He is Professor of Microbiology at the Universities of León and Complutense of Madrid, and a senior international expert on bioeconomy, food security, sustainability, climate change and the science-society dialogue.

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Author’s articles:
> Let us give the future another chance

Loueila Sid Ahmed

Loueila Sid Ahmed Ndiaye is a lawyer of Sahrawi origin, specialising in Immigration Law. A Law graduate from the University of La Laguna (Tenerife), she has focused her professional practice on regularisation procedures, nationality applications, and the defence of vulnerable migrants. As a feminist activist, she is involved in various human rights networks and platforms in the Canary Islands and across Europe. In 2023, she was awarded the Feminist Activism Prize by Spain’s Ministry of Equality and the Social Equality Prize by the international jury of Peironcely 10, in recognition of her commitment to refugees and racialised women.

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Author’s articles:
> The Young Who Arrive Alone. Narratives and Dehumanisation of Migrant Minors in the Canary Islands

Zeidon Alkinani

Zeidon Alkinani is a Middle East Political Analyst and the Founding Director of the Arab Perspectives Institute. Former Lecturer at Georgetown University in Qatar and the University of Aberdeen, he holds a PhD in Politics and International Relations from the University of Aberdeen. Author of a forthcoming Routledge book on ingroup rivalries in consociational democracies, with a focus on post-2003 Iraq, he leads strategic initiatives in Qatar’s educational non-profit sector. He is also a regular commentator and contributor to prominent regional and international outlets, and a frequent panellist at academic and policy conferences.

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Author’s articles:
> Arab Existentialism in the Face of Regional Rivalries

Lola Allen

Lola Allen is a researcher who works on climate, economic, and development justice, focusing on fairer rules for the global financial and trade architecture. She has worked with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Recourse, the Global Alliance for a Green New Deal, and the Ecuadorian government, with a focus on supporting climate-vulnerable countries through more just international policies.

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Author’s articles:
> A Global Bauhaus for Sustainable and Just Futures
> A Global Bauhaus for Sustainable and Just Futures (Part II)

Pedro Arrojo Agudo

Pedro Arrojo is the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation. Professor Emeritus at the University of Zaragoza, he was an elected member of the Spanish Parliament from 2016 to 2019. With a degree in Physics and a PhD in Fluid Engineering, he was a member of the Spanish Scientific Committee of UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme. In 2003, he was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for his contributions to the conservation of water ecosystems.

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Author’s articles:
> Water Shortage or Ambition Surplus?

Jaume Asens

Jaume Asens is a renowned Catalan lawyer and politician, currently a Member of the European Parliament in the Greens/European Free Alliance group for the Comuns party. With a degree in Law and Philosophy from the University of Barcelona, he was president of the Unidas Podemos parliamentary group in the Spanish Congress (2020-2023) and a Member of Parliament. He previously served as the deputy mayor of Barcelona (2015-2019), where he launched initiatives such as the Ethical Mailbox and the Transparency Office. As a lawyer specialising in human rights, he pursued cases against crimes committed during the Franco regime and international crimes, and was recognised for defending activists and social movements. He has authored several books.
[ Photo: © European Union 2024 – Source : EP ]

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Author’s articles:
> Germany and the Holocaust: the Weaponisation of Memory

Eduardo Barcesat

Eduardo Barcesat is an Argentinian jurist, UNESCO expert on human rights and Professor at the University of Buenos Aires. He is also a founding member of the American Association of Jurists.

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Author’s articles:
> The future of human rights and overcoming anthropocentrism

Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of six books. His latest book, co-edited with Ilan Pappé, is “Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders and Intellectuals Speak out”. Baroud is a Non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA). His website is www.ramzybaroud.net.

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Author’s articles:
> Beyond the ‘interregnum’: is a non-hegemonic world possible?

Laura Basu

Laura Basu is a writer and independent scholar affiliated with the Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Utrecht University and Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the co-founder of the Amsterdam-based project Good Societies, which aims to develop ideas for new social structures. Since 2019, she has been Europe Editor for openDemocracy’s new economics section, ourEconomy.

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Author’s articles:
> The post-pandemic city beyond state and market: a thought experiment

Bob Black

Bob Black is an American social philosopher known for his work on anarchism. The author of various books and numerous political essays, he specializes in the sociology and ethnography of law. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Georgetown Law School. He is most widely known for his 1985 essay «The Abolition of Work,» which has been widely disseminated in at least 13 languages. His most recent publication, «Instead of Work,» includes a compendium of his writings and an update on his 1985 essay.

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Author’s articles:
> Work after coronavirus

Colleen Boland

Colleen Boland is Research Manager at Common Action Forum. She holds an M.A. from SOAS, University of London and PhD in Sociology of Migration from Complutense University of Madrid. She has previously served as Managing Editor of the International Journal of Health Services. Research areas of interest include international migration, diversity management and religion.

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Author’s articles:
> The post-pandemic city: transnational cooperation and public policy
> The post-pandemic city: transnational cooperation and public policy (Part II)

David Bollier

David Bollier is an American activist, scholar, and blogger who is focused on the commons. He is Director of the Reinventing the Commons Program at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics. He is the author of The Commoner’s Catalog for Changemaking (2021) and coauthor of Free, Fair and Alive: The Insurgent Power of the Commons (2019), among other books.

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Author’s articles:
> Commoning and Changemaking

Diego Borja

Diego Borja is an Ecuadorian politician and economist. He served as Minister of Economy and Finance, Minister of Economic Policy, President of the Central Bank of Ecuador, and as the country’s delegate at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the IMF. He holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Louvain (Belgium) and was part of the Constitutional Assembly of Ecuador in 2007. He was a member of the Truth Committee on Greek Public Debt (2015).

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Author’s articles:
> Towards a different economic order: a vision from the South

Simone Buratti

Simone Buratti served as former Executive Director of The International Association for the Study of the Commons, and previously worked on sustainable lifestyles, migration and sustainable communities. He is a PhD candidate in Sustainability Science at UNAM, México and holds an MA from the University of Bologna in Contemporary History. He currently works on urban commons, public space and sustainable development.

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Author’s articles:
> Cities, COVID-19 and Commons in Latin America

Judith Butler

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Critical Theory programme at the University of California, Berkeley. She also serves as Hannah Arendt Chair and Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School (EGS) and stands out as a key figure in the history of Gender Studies.

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Author’s articles:
> The power of dissident solidarity in the rise of ultraliberal authoritarianism

Patricio Cabello

Patricio Cabello is Researcher at the Center for Advanced Research in Education at the University of Chile. He holds his PhD and MAs in Anthropology and Social Research Methods. Leading several projects, he has consulted for UNESCO and UNICEF.

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Author’s articles:
> A new political imagination: creating realistic utopias
> A new political imagination: creating realistic utopias (Part II)

Manuela Carmena

A former employment lawyer and magistrate, Manuela Carmena recently governed as mayor of Madrid from 2015 to 2019. She served as a judge for over 30 years, as well as spokesperson for Spain’s General Council of the Judiciary from 1996 to 2001. She co-founded the law firm targeted in an infamous far-right terrorist attack, known as the Atocha massacre. She retired in 2010 and founded an NGO to support underprivileged collectives through local trade. She has also served as Chair-Rapporteur of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, and has authored several books.

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Author’s articles:
> Before and after the pandemic: a city of solidarity, creativity and participation

Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena is an architect with a doctorate in Urban Regional Development. He founded the Organization for Latin American and Caribbean Historical Centers (OLACCHI), is the President of the Research Center CIUDAD and General Coordinator of the Latin American Cities Network. He was recognized by ESGLOBAL one of the top 50 most influential intellectuals in Ibero-America. He is a researcher at FLACSO Ecuador, and teaches and consults at diverse institutions. He also served as representative of the Metropolitan District of Quito.

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Author’s articles:
> The global transurban system: forms it takes and new challenges

Marta Cazorla

Marta Cazorla is an editor, translator and economist specialised in political economy. She has a Master’s in International Economy and Development and is a worker owner at Guerrilla Media Collective, a translation and editorial services co-op with a strong focus in feminism and the commons which believes that translation is a powerful catalyst for social transformation.

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Author’s articles:
> Multipolar dispute: between old mistakes and new uncertainties
> Multipolar dispute: between old mistakes and new uncertainties (Part II)

Arlene Clemesha

Arlene Clemesha is a renowned Brazilian historian and professor of Arab History at the University of São Paulo. Member of the Executive Board of the Common Action Forum, Arlene has authored several books about the modern history of Palestine and was a member of the Steering Committee of the UN International Coordinating Network on Palestine (ICNP-UN).

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Author’s articles:
> The Nakba as a Rite of Passage… Towards Genocide?

Sofía Coca

Sofía Coca is, since 2005, a partner and member of the coordination team for ZEMOS98, a cooperative with more than 20 years experience in cultural production and research. The cooperatives’ focus is on developing mediation methods that spark relationships between activists, artists, academics, foundations and public institutions, aiming for social change. At ZEMOS98, Sofía is responsible for managing the exchange of knowledge, community relations and the working team. Currently she also serves as the coordinator of PLANEA in Andalusia, a network promoting art in schools.

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Author’s articles:
> Cultural mediation for social change in pandemic times

Maria Olympia Conceição

Maria Olympia Conceição holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law and a Master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies from the University of Salamanca. A doctoral candidate in the Department of History of Law and Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy, her research focuses on deliberative democracy and the political participation of Quilombola women. Her work on public policy-making has been featured in seminars and congresses of the Spanish Association of Political Science and Administration and the European Consortium for Political Research.

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Author’s articles:
> Ideas for the Decolonisation of Brazilian Political Participation

Herta Däubler-Gmelin

Herta Däubler-Gmelin served as Germany’s Minister of Justice (1998 – 2002) and as congresswoman in the Bundestag for over 30 years and SPD vice-president for ten years. She chaired the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly. She has written several books, continues to practice law, integrates the board of many civil society organizations and is Honorary Professor of Political Sciences, International Law and Humanitarian Law at the Free University of Berlin.

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Author’s articles:
> The post COVID-19 challenge: a simple reset or a real change?

Tatiana Delgado

Tatiana Delgado is an Argentinian lawyer specialising in criminal law. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Human Rights at the National University of Lanús and another in Evidence and Criminal Litigation at the University of San Andrés, while working at the Office for Institutional Violence within the Office of the Attorney General. With extensive experience in the Public Prosecutor’s Office, she teaches at the National Committee for the Prevention of Torture and at the University of Buenos Aires. She has worked in various civil society organisations defending the most vulnerable groups, particularly adolescents and young people. She has recently been shortlisted for the post of National Ombudswoman.

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Author’s articles:
> Handcuffed Youth: A Story about the Criminalization of Young People in the Slums

Jessica Dempsey

Jessica Dempsey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Her research areas include environmental policy, biodiversity, conservation, political ecology and green finance, among others. She is the author of Enterprising Nature.

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Author’s articles:
> Towards serious biodiversity policy: foreign debt in the long duree of extractivism

Romualdo Dias

Romualdo Dias is a professor in the São Paulo State University and visiting professor in the University of Bologna (Italy) and the University of the Republic (Uruguay). He has a PhD in Philosophy (UNICAMP/Brasil), and a postdoctoral degree in Political Science (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). He has authored two books: Imágenes de orden and Educación de Jóvenes y Adultos: nuevas perspectivas, among others. His research focuses on popular education, political philosophy and psychoanalysis.

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Author’s articles:
> Imagination and action: movements between immanence and transcendence

Maysoun Douas

Named one of Spain’s top 100 women, Maysoun Douas is Madrid City Councilwoman and works on Economy, Education, Employment and Entrepreneurship. She holds a PhD in Physic and serves as President of the Tamkeen Foundation.

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Author’s articles:
> Towards a New Social Contract for the 21st Century

Rafael Fernández

Rafael Fernandez, political scientist and PhD of Economics, is a senior lecturer at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and researcher for the Complutense Institute for International Studies (ICEI). He is the co-director of the group Political Economy and Globalisation (EPM) and a member of the Clacso Energy and Sustainability working group. He is co-author of La decadencia económica de Rusia (The decadence of the Russian economy) and has published numerous articles and book chapters on the Russian energy industry and international energy relations. He is currently serving as Vice Dean of Research and Doctoral Studies for the Department of Economics and Business Studies at UCM.

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Author’s articles:
> International relations and the energy crisis: what has changed since war broke out in Ukraine?

Lorena Fréitez Mendoza

Lorena Fréitez Mendoza is a Venezuelan researcher and former minister in the Venezuelan government (2016). A social psychologist and PhD candidate in Political Science at the Complutense University of Madrid, she has over fifteen years’ experience in public policy, social intervention and the development of democratic narratives. She co-founded the Tiuna El Fuerte Cultural Park, a cultural landmark in the country, and currently contributes to various platforms for political analysis in Latin America and Europe. Her work combines critical thinking, local and institutional experience, and sustained reflection on the state, hegemony and social conflict.

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Author’s articles:
> Rebuilding the Nation-Dam in the Face of Radicalised Imperialism: Challenges from Venezuela

Álvaro García Linera

Álvaro García Linera is a Bolivian politician and intellectual, Vice President of Bolivia during the tenure of Evo Morales. A Marxist theorist, prolific essayist and columnist, he was a member of the Ayllus Rojos guerrilla and the Tupak Katari Guerrilla Army during the 1990s. He was incarcerated for five years as a political prisoner, and since his release he has been a member of the MAS-IPSP, serving in the popular government that transformed Bolivia.

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Author’s articles:
> The age of uncertainty. Liminal time

Javier Gil García

Javier Gil García is the Ramón y Cajal fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). He holds a PhD from the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). His main research areas are political economy, social justice, and public policy, with a particular focus on financialization and neoliberal commodification, as well as the housing issues in Spain and Europe. Javier is affiliated with the emerging Madrid Tenants’ Union and is also a member of the Critical Urban Studies Group (GECU), an interdisciplinary research collective devoted to informing and transforming urban policies in pursuit of a fairer development that is open to social actors.

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Author’s articles:
> The Tenant Generation: Inequality and Class Conflict in Rentier Capitalism

Ariel Goldstein

Ariel Goldstein is an Associate Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research of Argentina (CONICET). He holds a PhD in Social Sciences & Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), and lectures at the UBA and the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE). He holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from the Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales (IDAES-UNSAM), and is the author of academic articles published in social science journals from over a dozen countries, in addition to the following titles: “Bolsonaro. Brazilian Democracy Under Threat”, “Evangelical Power: How Religious Groups Are Taking Over Politics in America” and “Authroitarian Reconquest: How the Global Right Threatens Democracy in Latin America”.

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Author’s articles:
> Deciphering the Global Far-Right: Alliances, Narratives and Strategies

Mariano Gómez Aranda

Mariano Gómez Aranda is Ph.D. in Semitic Philology and currently a researcher at CSIC (the Spanish State Science Institution). He specializes in medieval Hebrew texts on science and on interpretations of the Bible. His various publications relate science and Judaism in the medieval period, and deal on the role of Jews in the transmission of science. He has directed several publicly funded research projects; the most recent is “Science and Religion in Medieval Judaism.” He has been Director of the CSIC “Biblical, Hebraic and Sephardic Studies” series, as well as Professor at New York University in Madrid and Middlebury College, USA.

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Author’s articles:
> Medieval Imaginary and Black Death: Pandemic, Medicine and Religion

José Manuel Gómez Giménez

José Manuel Gómez Giménez is a lecturer at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. An architect from the ETSAM, he holds a PhD in Sustainability and Urban Regeneration and a Master’s degree in Urban and Territorial Planning from the UPM, as well as a degree in Political Science and Administration from the UNED. His doctoral thesis, which addresses urban vulnerability and socio-spatial cohesion from an interdisciplinary approach, was awarded the Enrique Fuentes Quintana prize by Funcas.

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Author’s articles:
> Cities and Nations: from Emancipatory Forces to Global Challenges

Rebeca Grynspan

Rebeca Grynspan has served as Ibero-American Secretary General since 2014. She is former Vice President of her country of origin, Costa Rica, where she held office from 1994 to 1998. In 2010, she was elected UN Under-Secretary-General. She is also a former Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), where she additionally served as regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean. She is a member of the G20 High Level Independent Panel on financing the global commons for pandemic preparedness and response, as well as many other entities. She holds a master’s degree in economics.

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Author’s articles:
> A New, «Glocal» Social Pact for Recovery

Julia Grosinger

Julia Grosinger is a human geographer who works and walks across rural landscapes, from Austrian Alpine valleys to Spanish post-industrial realms to Palestinian olive-growing landscapes. She teaches and conducts research at Université Grenoble Alpes in France and is an associated researcher with Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. Her research explores how place attachment, everyday relations with local environments, and collective forms of action can contribute to more grounded understandings of quality of life and post-growth in rural territories. To explore these questions, she uses inclusive, mobile, and artistic methodologies to uncover hidden stories of life fulfillment beyond entrenched economic path dependencies.

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Author’s articles:
> The Salt Mountain: A Landscape Action

Jo Guldi

Joe Guldi is Associate Professor of History at Southern Methodist University, where she teaches text mining and the history of technology. An expert in the history of Britain and its empire, other areas of expertise include questions of state expansion, the contestation of property under capitalism, and the how state and property concepts are articulated in the landscape of the built environment.

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Author’s articles:
> Pandemics Occasion the Rethinking of Shared Technology

Patricia Guzmán Cabello

Patricia Guzmán Cabello is a Bolivian political scientist specialising in International Relations. With a Master’s in Political Philosophy, she was Chief of Staff at the Bolivian Foreign Ministry and in charge of International Seminars at the office of the Vice-President and at the Centre for Social Research (CIS). She was the promoter of the Geopolitics Observatory of Bolivia’s Plurinational School of Public Management and a member of the Geopolitics and Regional Integration task force of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO).

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Author’s articles:
> Security in crisis: challenges for rediscovering the future
> Security in crisis: challenges for rediscovering the future (Part II)

Rafael Heiber

Rafael Heiber is the Co-Founder and Deputy-Chairman of the Common Action Forum. Geographer and Climatologist with a MSc in Territorial Planning and a PhD in Sociology, he is Adjunct Professor of Social Structure and Political Theory at the Charles III University of Madrid.

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Author’s articles:
> The post-pandemic city: transnational cooperation and public policy
> The post-pandemic city: transnational cooperation and public policy (Part II)
> Geopolitics and the generative limits of the ungovernable
> Security in crisis: challenges for rediscovering the future
> Security in crisis: challenges for rediscovering the future (Part II)

Zenia Hellgren

Zenia Hellgren holds a PhD in Sociology from Stockholm University (Sweden). She is a Senior Researcher specialising in Migration Studies and a Lecturer in Political and Social Theory at Pompeu Fabra University and the Barcelona School of Management. Her research focuses on processes of racialisation, discrimination and social inequalities. She has led various European action research projects and is involved in a range of initiatives aimed at strengthening knowledge transfer between academia, civil society and public policy. Author of Narratives and Practices of Migrant and Minority Incorporation in European Societies: Contested Diversity and Fractured Belongings (Routledge), she is currently a member of the Barcelona City Anti-Racism Council.

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Author’s articles:
> Research as Resistance: Antiracist Counternarratives and Transformative Action

Jason Hickel

Jason Hickel is an economic anthropologist, professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Visiting Senior Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics, and Chair Professor of Global Justice and the Environment at the University of Oslo, he serves on the Climate and Macroeconomics Roundtable of the US National Academy of Sciences, the advisory board of the Green New Deal for Europe, and the Lancet Commission on Sustainable Health, among others.

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Author’s articles:
> Anti-colonial Revolution: the Only Way out of the Ecological Crisis

Matthew T. Huber

Matthew T. Huber is a Professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment at Syracuse University. He received his PhD in Geography from Clark University in 2009. His areas of expertise include resource geography, political economy and the relationships between energy, capitalism, and the politics of climate change. He is the author of Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom and the Forces of Capital (2013, University of Minnesota Press) and Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Climate (Verso Books, 2022). He is a regular contributor to Jacobin Magazine.

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Author’s articles:
> The Kids Are Not Alright: Why Youth Will Not Cool the Planet

Audrey Irvine-Broque

Audrey Irvine-Broque is a PhD student in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She is a co-author of the report Beyond the Gap: Placing Biodiversity Finance in the Global Economy.

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Author’s articles:
> Towards serious biodiversity policy: foreign debt in the long duree of extractivism

Zaid Jaloudi

Zaid Jaloudi is a Palestinian American economist and strategist specialising in socio-political strategy, institutional development, and international justice. As President of the Global Students for Palestine Network (GSPN), he leads international efforts that unite advocates throughout the world and promote justice through strategic coalition-building and enhancing organisational capacity within both corporate and nonprofit sectors.

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Author’s articles:
> The Cost of Solidarity: Suppression of Pro-Palestinian Voices in U.S. Academia
> Frontlines of Resistance: At the Edges of a Burning World

Wadah Khanfar

Wadah Khanfar is the Chairman and Co-founder of Common Action Forum. He previously served as the Director General of Al Jazeera, transforming it from a single channel to a media network. He is also the President of the Al Sharq Forum and board member of several distinguished think-tanks such as the International Crisis Group. In 2011 Wadah was ranked first in Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers.

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Author’s articles:
> COVID-19 as a meta crisis and our post-pandemic order

Steve Keen

Steve Keen is an Australian economist and author, known for his work on a post-Keynesian economic approach that criticizes neoclassical economics. He formerly was associate professor of economics at University of Western Sydney, as well as was professor and Head of the School of Economics, History and Politics at Kingston University in London. He continues his work on a monetary, complex systems approach to economics on his Patreon blog as at the Centre for Policy Development.

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Author’s articles:
> A Modern Debt Jubilee

David Koranyi

David Koranyi is president of Action for Democracy, a global democracy solidarity movement, and co-founder of NewsGamer, an immersive narrative tool that simulates real-life conflicts as they appear in the news. A graduate of Budapest’s Corvinus University and Columbia University, he has served as Undersecretary of State in the Hungarian Government and advisor to the Mayor of Budapest. With more than two decades of policymaking in Washington, DC, New York, Brussels and Budapest, both in national and municipal governments, international institutions and global think tanks, he was also advisor on sustainable energy at the United Nations, and special envoy for the Free Cities Pact.

Author’s articles:
> The Battle for Democracy: Empowering Citizens and Cities

Tom Kucharz

Tom Kucharz is an activist and researcher. A member of Ecologistas en Acción, he studied Political Science, Philosophy and Sociology at the Technical University of Dresden. With over 30 years of experience in international networks and campaigns against capitalist globalisation and in favour of peace, justice, and solidarity, he has served as an advisor to the European Parliament and has published several books. He undertakes consulting projects, journalistic work, and research in International Relations, the European Union, world trade and economics, socio-ecological conflicts, and human rights, among other areas.
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Author’s articles:
> Civil Disobedience in the Face of Capitalist Expansion and War Regimes

Sani Ladan

Sani Ladan is an International Relations expert specialising in foreign policy, security and migration. A pan-Africanist researcher, intelligence analyst and social educator, he is the creator of the podcast “África en 1 click” and a trustee of the FUNDEC Foundation. He is the author of La luna está en Duala, an autobiographical work that analyses the relationship between Europe and Africa from a decolonial perspective, and he also collaborates in the programme “Mañana Más” on Radio Nacional de España.
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Author’s articles:
> Youth in West Africa: Between Democratic Mobilisation and Supporting Regime Change

Ana María Larrea

Ana María Larrea is an Ecuadorian anthropologist with a PhD in Public Policy and a Master’s degree in Local Development. A former Deputy Minister for Planning for Good Living and former Deputy Minister for State Democratisation, she also served as Head of the Ecuadorian Institute of Higher National Studies. Currently an adviser to the Provincial Government of Pichincha, she previously served as Technical Secretary for the Eradication of Poverty in Ecuador, Executive Secretary of the Consortium of Provincial Governments and Secretary of the National Planning Council. She was also an Alternate Member of the Constituent Assembly, Director of the Institute of Ecuadorian Studies and a member of the Executive Committee of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), representing Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela.

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Author’s articles:
> The People Who Became a River: The Struggle for the Commons in Ecuador

Luciana Lemos

Luciana Lemos is a researcher and documentary filmmaker. Currently a Ph.D. student in Community and Regional Planning, she was a fellow at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, and part of the Closing the Water Gap group at the Ford Institute for Human Security. Her research focuses on international development, water governance, and the Brazilian Amazon. She has directed four short documentaries that have been showcased at several festivals worldwide, including the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale).

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Author’s articles:
> Manaus: Water Management Challenges in the Middle of the Amazon Forest

Felipe Llamas

Felipe Llamas Sánchez is Madrid City Councilman and Professor at the Social and Juridical Sciences Faculty of Carlos III University, Madrid. He has worked on the World Forums on Urban Violence and Education for Coexistence and Peace I and II. A founding partner of PHARE Territorios Globales, he is an expert in participatory governance and international collaboration among local governments.

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Author’s articles:
> Old challenges in a new context: the pandemic accelerating city multilateralism

María Lois

María Lois holds a PhD in Political Science and Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid, where she teaches Political Geography in the Department of Political Science and Sociology since 2001. She is the deputy director of the magazine Geopolítica(s) and coordinates the International Political Science Association’s (IPSA) Research Committee on Political and Cultural Geography (RC15).

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Author’s articles:
> Movement and (in)security: from the politics of surveillance to the politics of compassion

Andrés Lomeña

Andrés Lomeña holds degrees in Journalism and Literary Theory, as well as a PhD in Sociology. He teaches philosophy and published Ficcionologia (2016), El Periodista de partículas (2017), Rescoldos Mentales (2018) and the script of the award-winning short-movie Psicopolis. He writes for the Huffington Post.

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Author’s articles:
> A new political imagination: creating realistic utopias
> A new political imagination: creating realistic utopias (Part II)

Irene López

Irene López is the Project Manager at the Common Action Forum. She holds a degree in International Relations and a Master’s degree in Human Rights. She has worked as chief of staff, analyst, and consultant for political parties in both Spain and Ecuador. She served as an international aid worker in refugee camps and headed political advocacy at various organizations.

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Author’s articles:
> Multipolar dispute: between old mistakes and new uncertainties
> Multipolar dispute: between old mistakes and new uncertainties (Part II)
> Frontlines of Resistance: At the Edges of a Burning World

Selene López

Selene López is a political scientist specialising in political sociology and public policy. With a Master’s degree from the University of Tokyo and the London School of Economics, she has extensive experience managing high-profile electoral campaigns and has worked to develop influential networks throughout Latin America and the European Union. She is an established expert in political campaigning, geopolitics, Chinese studies, and international relations.

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Author’s articles:
> Between the Eagle and the Dragon: Latin America’s Stance in the Energy Transition

Soledad Magno

Soledad Magno served as Director of Cooperation at Argentina’s Ministry of the Interior until December 2023. With a degree in Political Science from the University of Buenos Aires, she also previously served as Director General of Parliamentary Diplomacy in the Senate and advisor to the Chamber of Deputies; as wel as the Legislature of the city of Buenos Aires. She also served in the Directorate of International Organisations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Undersecretariat of Creative Economy of the Ministry of Culture. In 2023, she was a candidate for the MERCOSUR Parliament.

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Author’s articles:
> The rise of the far-right as a result of the crisis of neoliberalism: the case of Argentina

Youssef Mahmoud

Youssef Mahmoud is Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute, and former United Nations Under-Secretary-General. He has headed peace operations in Burundi, the Central African Republic and Chad and also served in other senior UN positions, such as UN Resident Coordinator in Guyana, Director in the UN Department of Political Affairs, Head of the Office of the Undersecretary-Secretary-General for Political Affairs. member of the UN Secretary-General High-Level Panel on Peace Operations (HIPPO) and member of the High-Level Advisory Group for the Global Study on Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, among others. Holding a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Georgetown University, he is currently a Visiting Professor at the African Leadership Centre, King’s College London.

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Author’s articles:
> The 2024 Summit of the Future: an opportunity for U.N. regeneration in an era of radical disruptions

Lucía Asué Mbomío

Lucía Asué Mbomío is a Spanish journalist and author. She collaborates with various radio and press outlets such as Infolibre, Píkara, and El País, and is a reporter for TVE’s programme Aquí la Tierra. Lucía has published three books and worked as a screenwriter and director on socially oriented audiovisual projects such as Movistar TV’s En Tierra de Nadie and Afromayores, an initiative she co-created that highlights the historical contributions of Black citizens and residents in Spain. She is also an active member of the Espacio Afro association, a leading cultural centre for black, African, and Afro-descendant culture in Madrid.

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Author’s articles:
> What Was Lost with Jesús Santos: Portrait of a Leadership Rooted in Closeness

Paula Medina

Paula Medina García holds a PhD in Political Science and Administration and International Relations from the Complutense University of Madrid. She was a Margarita Salas postdoctoral researcher for two years at the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1265 ‘Re-Figuration of Spaces’ (Technische Universität Berlin). Her main areas of research are feminist political geography, political theory and intersectional feminism. In her latest work, she has emphasised the relationship between border devices and migrant agency, delving into the impacts of the rise of the far right. She currently combines her work in the third sector with independent research.

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Author’s articles:
> The Horizonless Generation: Callings, Narratives and Yearnings of a Global Youth
> The Horizonless Generation: Callings, Narratives and Yearnings of a Global Youth (Part II)

Leticia Merino

Leticia Merino holds a PhD in anthropology and is professor at the Institute of Social Research (IIS/UNAM), Mexico, where she also teaches the Postgraduate Program on Sustainability Sciences. She has served as member of the Committee for Development Policies of the United Nations since 2016 and collaborated for 15 years, in research and teaching projects with Elinor Ostrom, Nobel Price on Economics, 2009. She has authored and coauthored more than 80 articles and book chapters, as well as six books.

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Author’s articles:
> Cities, COVID-19 and Commons in Latin America

Jody Metcalfe

Jody Metcalfe PhD is a postdoctoral researcher on the NWO Project Re/Presenting Europe at Utrecht University, Netherlands. She holds a PhD in Intersectionality Studies from the Doctoral College of Intersectionality Studies (PKIS) and in English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Her research interests are focused on colonial silences, representation, belonging, intersectionality, decolonialism and post-apartheid identity building in South Africa and Europe.

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Author’s articles:
> Digital Solidarity and Activism Against Gender-Based Violence and Femicide in South Africa

Pedro Manuel Moreno

Pedro Manuel Moreno is Deputy Secretary-General of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). A former researcher at UNESCO and the Complutense University of Madrid, Pedro formerly served as Chief of Staff of the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB) and Special Adviser to the Associate Administrator of the UN Development Programme (UNDP).

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Author’s articles:
> Global Tensions and Trade Sovereignty

Emilio Muñoz Ruiz

Emilio Muñoz Ruiz is honorary researcher at the Department of Science, Technology and Society (CTS) of the Institute of Philosophy (IFS) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). He is a partner at the Spanish Association for the Advancement of Science (AEAC) and a member of its Advisory Board. He has served as Director General of Scientific Policy, Secretary General of the Spanish Committee on Scientific and Technical Research (CAICYT) and the Spanish National Research and Dissemination Program, as well as President of CSIC. He also forms part of the CSIC research project, «Scientific, philosophical and social analysis of COVID-19: Social impact, ethical implications and culture pandemic prevention.»

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Author’s articles:
> Science and democracy: institutions in search of a sociopolitical identity

María G. Navarro

María G. Navarro is Lecturer and Researcher in the Department of History of Law and Legal, Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of Salamanca. She has worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Universities of Oxford, Amsterdam, UNAM, and Birmingham (UK) and as a pre-doctoral researcher at the German universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg. She is currently the Lead Researcher of the Spanish National Plan project “Voices: The Impact of Age Bias in Deliberative Democracies”.

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Author’s articles:
> “We Were Plundered, Yet We Owned Nothing”

Antonio Penedo Picos

Antonio Penedo Picos is a teacher of literary studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His Academic publications are focused on hermeneutics, semiotics and new historicism. In 2020 he published an article in “Seeds of Hope: 12 Perspectives on the COVID Pandemic”.

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Author’s articles:
> New poetics for the digital age

John Ralston Saul

John Ralston Saul is an award-winning essayist and novelist. A long-time champion of freedom of expression, he served as President of PEN International and has written extensively, with his most renowned work considered to be “The Unconscious Civilization.”

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Author’s articles:
> Stubborn Compassion: A New Canadian Independence

Jacques Ramírez

Jacques Ramírez holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the Ibero-American University (Mexico). He was Undersecretary for Migration and Consular Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility of Ecuador, and advisor to UNASUR on migration and South American citizenship issues. He was also advisor on migration issues to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Plurinational State of Bolivia and, more recently, to the Andean Parliament. A member of the International Studies Association (ISA), he is the author of numerous books and a researcher at various academic institutions and universities.

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Author’s articles:
> The geopolitics of migratory horror

Fernanda Ribeiro

Fernanda Ribeiro is a conservation leader and director of Institutional Partnerships at PANTHERA. With almost two decades of experience in public policy and development organisations, she previously worked as part of the Brazilian Foreign Service and for the United Nations in Geneva. She holds a Master’s in International Peace and Security from King’s College London and another in International Public Law and Administration from the École Nationale d’Administration (ENA) in France. She is also a Chevening Fellow, a prestigious award from the UK government for future global leaders, and leads the Environmental Policy Cluster at the Common Action Forum.

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Author’s articles:
> A Global Bauhaus for Sustainable and Just Futures
> A Global Bauhaus for Sustainable and Just Futures (Part II)

Jesús Rey Rocha

Jesús Rey Rocha is a Doctor of Science and researcher at the Department of Science, Technology and Society (CTS) of the Institute of Philosophy (IFS) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). He is founding member of the Spanish Association for the Advancement of Science (AEAC) and a member of its Board of Directors. He also forms part of the CSIC research project, «Scientific, philosophical and social analysis of COVID-19: Social impact, ethical implications and culture pandemic prevention.»

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Author’s articles:
> Science and democracy: institutions in search of a sociopolitical identity

Ángela Rodríguez “Pam”

Ángela Rodríguez “Pam” is a Spanish philosopher, politician, feminist and LGBTQ+ activist. Between 2021 and 2023, she served as Secretary of State for Equality and Gender-Based Violence. She was also MP at the Spanish Congress of Deputies for two consecutive terms. She holds a Master’s degree in Creation and Research in Contemporary Art from the University of Vigo, and another in Abuse and Gender-Based Violence from the Spanish National Distance Education University (UNED).

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Author’s articles:
> Between Imposture and Legitimacy: Young Women in Public Life

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero served two consecutive terms as Prime Minister of Spain (2005-2011) and was the Spanish Labour Party (PSOE) leader for over 12 years. The milestones of his tenure include the withdrawal of Spanish troops from Iraq and the dismantling of the terrorist organisation ETA. He has dedicated much of his post-premiership activities to promoting international peace.

Author’s articles:
> Peace, an Ongoing Endeavour

Kruskaya Rojas Pilaquinga

Kruskaya Rojas is a social communicator with a Master’s degree in Electoral Marketing and a PhD in Political Marketing. She served as Press Secretary for the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, and as a communications advisor for the Ministries of Security and Strategic Sectors. From 2008 to 2010, she served as Director of Communications at the Ministry of Telecommunications and subsequently as General Coordinator of the Council for the Regulation and Development of Information and Communication. With a Master’s degree in Anthropology, she has worked as an advisor to the Andean Parliament, as well as a journalist, teacher, and consultant.

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Author’s articles:
> Between the People and Power: The Role of the Media in Ecuadorian Democracy

Concha Roldán

Concha Roldán is Director of the Institute of Philosophy of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (IFS-CSIC), president of the Spanish Association of Ethics and Political Philosophy (AEEFP). She is vice president of the Spanish Philosophy Network (REF) and member of the Board of Directors of the Ibero-American Philosophy Network (RIF).

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Author’s articles:
> Historical notes in a reflection on tolerance for a new political imaginary

Mary-Jane Rubenstein

Mary-Jane Rubenstein is a scholar of religion, philosophy, science studies, and gender studies. At Wesleyan University, she is Professor of Religion and Science in Society. She is also affiliated with Environmental Studies and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. From 2014 to 2019, she was co-chair of the Philosophy of Religion Unit of the American Academy of Religion. She is a Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion.

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Author’s articles:
> A tale of two utopias: Musk and Bezos in outer space

Romana Rubeo

Romana Rubeo is an Italian writer and the managing editor of The Palestine Chronicle. Her articles appeared in many online newspapers and academic journals. She holds a Master’s Degree in Foreign Languages and Literature and specializes in audio-visual and journalism translation.

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Author’s articles:
> Beyond the ‘interregnum’: is a non-hegemonic world possible?

Axel Ruppert

Axel Ruppert is Project Manager at the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Brussels Office where he works on the topics of peace, security and disarmament as well as European Union militarisation and the European arms industry. He holds a Master’s degree in European Studies and has previously worked in the field of anti-racism and equality advocacy.

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Author’s articles:
> A geopolitical European Union to what end?

Ricardo Sá Ferreira

Ricardo Sá Ferreira holds a BA in Politics and International Relations and a Masters in International Political Economy from the University of Kent. Also a Masters in Sociology from the University of Porto, he has extensive experience as EU Foreign Affairs Advisor at the European Parliament and a Policy Advisor at the Spanish Chamber of Deputies. His academic work focuses on the transformation of welfare states, austerity policies, and global economic governance.

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Author’s articles:
> The State Rewritten: Elite Repression, Austerity, and the Revolutionary Struggle for Democracy

Eva Saldaña Buenache

Eva Saldaña Buenache has served as executive director of Greenpeace Spain and Portugal since 2021. An environmentalist with a degree in Biological Sciences, she has chaired the Greenpeace Europe Board since 2025 and co-leads the People and Culture Committee at Greenpeace International. With over 25 years of activism for ecosocial change, she specialises in participatory processes, transformational leadership, non-violent conflict resolution and the design of complex sustainable systems. She has been involved in ecosocial projects in critical regions such as the Peruvian Amazon, Costa Rica, Argentine Patagonia or the Mekong (Asia).

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Author’s articles:
> Trenches of Hope: Ecotopias in an Upside-Down World

Saskia Sassen

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and chaired its Committee on Global Thought from 2009 to 2015, now serving as a member. She is a recipient of the Prince of Asturias Award in the Social Sciences (2013). A renowned sociologist, she has conducted extensive work on topics including cities, immigration, and states in the world economy, examining inequality, gendering and digitization as variables.

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Author’s articles:
> Urban capabilities: those we want in our cities and those we should avoid

Salil Shetty

Salil Shetty is a Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. From 2010 to 2018, he was Secretary-General of Amnesty International, overseeing its leap forward from a predominantly European organisation to a global movement for human rights. A long-term activist on poverty and justice, he also directed the UN Millenium Campaign.

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Author’s articles:
> Why democracies must deliver

Tesh Sidi

Tesh Sidi is a Sahrawi computer engineer and Big Data Lead. Currently serving as a Spanish MP, she was born in the refugee camps in Tindouf (Algeria). Tesh is a renowned expert in Global technologies and has worked in large consulting firms and tech startups. She’s a dedicated feminist activist, advocating also for migrant and refugee rights.

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Author’s articles:
> A Generation Born Old

Joost Smiers

Joost Smiers is a Dutch political scientist best known for his work critiquing intellectual property rights. He has served as Professor at Utrecht University of the Arts (Netherlands) and as Visiting Professor at the Department of World Arts and Cultures, UCLA, Los Angeles. He received his PhD from the University of Amsterdam.

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Author’s articles:
> Roaming noise and other unwanted sounds. Protecting the public domain

Tristán Torrejón

Tristán Torrejón is Program Manager at the Common Action Forum (CAF) foundation. He holds a degree in Literary Theory from the Complutense University of Madrid and a master’s degree in Cultural Management from the Carlos III University. He has extensive experience in the production and organisation of international forums and high-level conference cycles. Previously, he was Program Assistant at the Casa de América diplomatic cultural centre in Madrid.

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Laura Varella

Laura Varella is the Coordinator of the Disarmament Programme at the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). A law graduate from the State University of São Paulo, she previously worked in different non-governmental organisations in Brazil, developing vast experience in human rights law. She holds a Master’s degree in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and specialises in research and monitoring multilateral disarmament forums.

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Author’s articles:
> Fabricating Fear: How War Profiteers Lead Us to an AI-driven Warfare

Ivana Vasic-Lalovic

Ivana Vasic-Lalovic is a Research Associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. She holds a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University, where she studied economic and political development. Her work has focused on issues in social protection, humanitarian affairs and bilateral aid, on the local, national and intergovernmental scale.

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Author’s articles:
> Breaking the Vicious Cycle: the Urgency of Reforming the International Financial Architecture

David Veloso Larraz

David Veloso Larraz is a sociologist and anthropologist specialising in comparative politics. His academic work focuses on the narratives and emotions that shape political action, with particular attention to populism and the role of youth in social change. He has conducted research at the Centro de Estudos Sociais of the University of Coimbra and at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, where he is completing his doctorate. He has been a visiting lecturer at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and has undertaken research stays at the University of the Republic (Uruguay). Between 2022 and 2023, he served in the Government of Spain, where he led the Youth Institute (Injuve) and advanced youth-related initiatives during Spain’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

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Author’s articles:
> The Mobilised Youth: Present Disputes and Future Prospects

Fefa Vila Núñez

Fefa Vila Núñez has been a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Methodology and Theory at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) since 2008. Her research areas include cultural and gender studies, social inequalities, and ordinary sociology. As an independent researcher and curator, she has also led EU-funded social research projects, as well as independent curatorial and artistic direction projects, such as The Future of Revolt: LGTBI_Q Memory and Desire (2017). She is a writer, queer-feminist activist, and co-founder of the lesbian-queer artivist collective LSD (Madrid, 1993–1998). Until 2017, she also served as coordinator of the Projects and Social Research Department at the FOREM-CS CCOO Foundation for 20 years.

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Author’s articles:
> For a Politics of Failure: Queerness on the Horizon

Idoia Villanueva

Idoia Villanueva is an MEP in the Left group in the European Parliament (GUE/NGL) since 2019, and current Vice-President of the European Parliament delegation to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly between the EU and the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS). International Affairs Secretary of the Spanish political party Podemos, in 2015 she was appointed senator on behalf of the Parliament of Navarre. She holds aith a degree in computer engineering from the University of the Basque Country and a MBA from the Autonomous University of Madrid, and she has managed and developed various tech-related projects for a decade.

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Author’s articles:
> A More Multipolar but not more Democratic International Scenario: The Geopolitical (dis)Order of a World in Reconfiguration

David Vine

David Vine is Professor of Anthropology at American University, USA. Author of a number of books about military bases, wars, demilitarisation and northamerican foreign policy, has received several awards for his work and publications. He also contributes to Foreign Policy in Focus, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Huffington Post, etc. He is also a board member of the Costs of War Project and a co-founder of the Overseas Base Realignment and Closure Coalition.

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Author’s articles:
> (The only way to) Stop wars and save the world

Omar Waraich

Omar Waraich is a policy analyst and human rights advocate. Master’s in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford and a Master’s in International Relations from the University of London; he was Head of South Asia at Amnesty International. Previously, he was a journalist covering the region for Time Magazine.

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Author’s articles:
> Why democracies must deliver

Jean Wyllys

Jean Wyllys is a journalist, researcher, former member of the Brazilian Congress and LGBTQIA+ activist. After the victory of Jair Bolsonaro in the Brazilian general elections of 2018, he resigned from his position and, after receiving death threats, sought exile in Europe, where he continues his work in social justice and the defence of civil rights, especially those of the LGBTQIA+ community.

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Author’s articles:
> The power of dissident solidarity in the rise of ultraliberal authoritarianism

Alfonso Zegbe

Alfonso Zegbe currently heads the Strategy and Public Diplomacy Unit at the Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Affairs. He is the former Ambassador of México in Iran, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, and is an expert in environmental law and international relations. He has worked on energy and environmental diplomatic agendas for more than 20 years in Mexico City, Washington DC, Ottawa, Paris, Brussels and the OECD.

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Author’s articles:
> Socioemotional wellbeing: a revisited approach

Irene Zugasti

Irene Zugasti (Madrid, 1988) is a political analyst, journalist and expert in International Relations and Public Gender Policy. She has worked for a number of local, regional and state administrations and is currently an advisor to the Spanish Ministry of Equality. She also works with various media outlets including El Salto, CTXT, Público, and The Washington Post. As a freelance journalist and researcher her work focuses on gender, violence, armed conflict, feminist politics in International Relations and, if permitted, on just about anyting that involves collective action.

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Author’s articles:
> War effort and kitchen-sink geopolitics

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