Research: Stories of Connection, Compassion, and Courage in Palestine-Israel: The 'Combatants for Peace' Ceremonies as third narrative practices, between (re)shaping of memory and future-making, towards collective liberation.
Ilaria is a ‘Peace Studies’ PhD Researcher. Her PhD research project explores stories of connection, compassion, and courage in Palestine–Israel, considering the ceremonies of ‘Combatants for Peace’ as third-narrative practices — between (re)shaping memory and future-making — towards collective liberation. She is also the Italian group representative of ‘European Friends of Combatants for Peace’.
Ilaria is a Facilitator of Social Arts & the ‘Work That Reconnects’, and a Focusing Trainer.
More than fifteen years of experience facilitating groups at the intersection of peace education, conflict transformation, deep ecology, and community building across borders, have led her to the methodological map ‘Stories that Reconnect’. It is an invitation to honor the pain of the world and cultivate active hope, remember our inter-connection, expand our capacity for compassion, and awaken the courage to act from a space of embodied dreaming, political imagination, and emerging futures.
She is a trainer at ‘CISP Interdisciplinary Center Sciences for Peace’ at the University of Pisa. She has collaborated with the University of Florence and the University of Würzburg-Schweinfurt (FHWS). She has served as a facilitator and consultant for ANCI Umbria in the European FAMI projects ‘Puzzle’ and ‘LIFE’, focused on conflict transformation, social inclusion, and capacity building, collaborating with newcomers and institutions.
In recent years, she has been designing and facilitating workshops, both online and in person, in collaboration with international facilitators such as Elena Boukouvala, Arundhati Samudra, Ruth Cross, Héctor Aristizábal, Uri Noy Meir, and Caren Niemann.
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