GLORIA VOLPE

PhD Student

PhD program:: XL
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Graduated in Development Sciences and International Cooperation with top marks. In 2015 she performed a year of Universal Civil Service in Colombia, in a "White Helmets" project dedicated to accompanying female heads of families who were internal victims of the Colombian conflict. In 2017 she participated in the first year of experimentation of the Italian Civil Peace Corps (CCP), serving in Ecuador in a project dedicated to Colombian refugees, especially women and unaccompanied minors. In 2018 she left for Ecuador in the frame of the "Torno Subito" project of the Lazio Region and continues the process of formation in Human Rights and conflict management and transformation. Since 2019 she has been working in the Civil Service sector as a manager, designer and trainer for CCPs accredited by the Department of Youth Policies and Civil Service. In particular, from 2021 to 2023 she acted as coordinator of the Civil Service Office for the coordination of 44 organizations and 130 volunteers in service between Italy and abroad. Since 2020 she is president of "Azione Comune di Pace (ACP)", an association created to promote the culture of peace, and spokesperson for the "Coordination for Action of Civil Peace Corps", a network that welcomes the experience of the CCPs who have served in the three government experimentations. ACP is part of the Italian Youth Peace and Security Network (GPS) and the Civil Peace Interventions Table (ICP), entities active in advocacy and peacebuilding.

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