Mariano Aguirre Contributor

Mariano Aguirre is an independent analyst on international politics. He is an associate fellow of the International Security Program in Chatham House (London) and fellow of the Latin American Network on Sustainable and Inclusive Security of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. He has been Senior Advisor on Peacebuilding at the Office of the Resident Coordinator of the United Nations in Colombia (2017-2019). He was before the director of the Norwegian Centre for Conflict Resolution (NOREF), in Oslo. (2009-2016) and the Ford Foundation (New York) and the Peace Research Center (Madrid). He was TNI's Deputy Director from 1990-1992.

As journalist and analyst on the Middle East, US foreign policy, Latin America, international conflicts, peacebuilding and peacekeeping, he has written, co-authored and edited several books, among them: La ideología neoimperial: 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), Megacities. The Politics of Urban Exclusion and Violence in the Global South , eds, Kees Koonings and Dirk Kruijt, Zed Books, 2009. His last book Salto al vacio. Crisis y decadencia de los Estados Unidos(Icaria, Barcelona 2017), is about the domestic and international crisis of the United States. He is a regular contributor to esglobal.org, Radio France International, OpenDemocracy, Política Exterior, BBC Mundo, Le Monde diplomatique, and other international media.

Aguirre holds an MPhil in Peace and Conflict Studies from Trinity College, Dublin, and was a programme officer for the Ford Foundation in New York. He is a fellow of the Transnational Institute, a professor in postgraduate studies at the Human Rights Institute at the Deusto University in Bilbao, University Castilla-La Mancha, and the School of Culture of Peace-Autonomous University of Barcelona.

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