Mariano Aguirre is a journalist and analyst with considerable expertise on peacebuilding, crisis of the state, humanitarian action, conflict and development, and post-conflict rehabilitation.
Prior to his work for the Norwegian Peacebuilding Center, he was director of the peace, security and human rights area at the Spanish think-tank FRIDE.
Aguirre is the author, contributor and editor of several books, among them: La ideología neimperial: La crisis de EEUU con Irak (Icaria/TNI/CIP 2003), co-authored with Phyllis Bennis and "Humanitarian intervention & us hegemony: a reconceptualization" in Achin Vanaik (Ed.), Selling US Wars, Interlink publishing / Transnational Institute (2007).
