Cecilia De Luca, PhD Candidate in Peace Studies, Curriculum 3 – Peacebuilding, Human Rights, and Rights of Peoples, 42nd Cycle, Sapienza University of Rome. Research project: Peacebuilding: Nonviolent Resistance and Practices of Reconciliation in Palestine. She holds a PhD in Political Studies, with a specialisation in Theory of Socio-Cultural, Political and International Cooperation Processes, from the Department of Political Sciences at Sapienza University of Rome (2020), with a dissertation entitled: Gender Equality and Sustainable Development Policies: Analysis of an Evolution. She also holds a first-level Master's degree in Gender Studies and Policies from Roma Tre University (2022) and completed the Advanced Training Course The Role of Women in Peace Processes and Conflict Mediation for the Protection of Human Rights at La Sapienza University (2020). She was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic and International Studies (CEIS) and the Department of Economics and Finance at Tor Vergata University, focusing on economic aspects associated with migration, health systems, and gender (2023–2026). Her professional experience spans more than a decade in international development cooperation as a Senior Project Manager and Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist on projects funded by World Bank, European Commission, Asian Development Bank in the fields of democracy, human rights, and gender. She is a certified facilitator for the International Labour Organization (ILO) for Participatory Gender Audits (2025).