Egidio de Bustamante
... is Senior Lecturer at the Unit for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Innsbruck.
Education
Egidio is a Spanish and Brazilian citizen, raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he graduated in International Relations from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). He holds an International Masters Degree in Peace, Conflict and Development Studies from Universitat Jaume I (UJI) in Castellón, Spain, which he partially pursued at the Peace and Conflict Studies Masters at the University of Innsbruck. Egidio followed his Masters with an International Doctorate also in Peace Conflict and Developmen Studies at UJI in Castellón. He graduated with a Cum Laude with a thesis on Love in Peace and International Studies. During his doctorate, Egidio conducted a research stay at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, focusing on Human Rights.
Work
At UJI, Egidio (co-)facilitated and taught the Intercultural Seminars I, II, III and New Tendencies in Peace and Conflict Studies courses between 2016 and 2022. He was a visiting scholar at the International Masters in International Studies (MAIS) at the University of San Francisco, USA during Autumn 2022, and has also taught at and coordinated the Postgraduate Program in Conflict Transformation and Peace with an emphasis on Emotional Balance at Paz & Mente in Florianópolis, Brazil between 2015 and 2018. Before holding the position of Senior Lecturer at the Unit for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Egidio also taught in Innsbruck as guest lecturer.
Prior to his post-graduate education and academic career, Egidio worked as an intern and/or volunteer in several multilateral organizations such as the Panamerican Games Organization Committee in Rio, the United Nations Center for Information (UNIC) in Rio and the Red Cross. He also worked in economic development projects together with the Federation of Industries of the State of Rio in Brazil.
Egidio is an active member of the DEEP (Dialogue, Empathy, Ecology and Peace) Network, part of the Global and Decolonizing Circles.
Research
Egidio’s current research interests are: Peace Philosophy, Peace Education and Pedagogy, Conflict Transformation and Nonviolence, Philosophical Anthropology, Humanistic Psychology, International Development Discourse, Social Movements in Latin America and Buen Vivir, and Queer Studies.
Egidio has been involved in a series of Erasmus+ projects as part of the Unit for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Innsbruck. More concretely,
- the Academic Alliance for Reconciliation in the Middle East and North Africa (AARMENA) led by the University of Jena (Germany);
- Curriculum Reform to Promote Education for Peace in Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova, led by Tampere University (Finland), and
- Karazin University Peace Education Hub, part of the Aurora European Universities Alliance – led by Palacký University Olomouc (Czech Republic).
The Cosmology of the Circle. Colloquium. Department of International Studies. University of San Francisco, California, USA. October 2022.
Queer Phenomenology. San Jose State University. San Jose, California, USA. October 2022.
New Tendencies in Peace and Conflict Studies. II International Course on Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding – Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, Indonesia. July 2022.
Estudos de Paz e Transformação de Conflitos: Paralelos e Contribuições da Psicologia. II Conferência Logoterapia e Cultura de Paz – Núcleo Viktor Frankl de Logoterapia Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Brazil, October 2021.
Empathy, Love, and Peace. International Course on Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding – Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, Indonesia. July and August 2021.
Da disciplina das Relações Internacionais aos Estudos de Paz: uma Autoetnografia. Grupo de Investigação Memória Identidade e Espaço – Fundação Dom João VI, Nova Friburgo, Brazil. February 2021.
Buen Vivir, Indigenous Knowledges and the Formation of the International System. Urban School – San Francisco (US), October 2020.
Caux Forum: Developing Human Potential for Global Change – Initiatives of Change. Caux, Switzerland, July 2019.
Peace Studies Methodologies – with Doctor Jennifer Murphy – Universitat Jaume I. Castellón, May 2019.
Innsbruck’s Conflict Transformation Approach and Elicitive Conflict Mapping (in Portuguese) – Mecon Brasil: Mediação e Conciliação. Cuiabá, Brazil, diciembre 2017.
“Make Love Not War”: Alice and Other Grammars of Peace (in Portuguese) – Centro de Estudos Sociais Universidade de Coimbra. Portugal, June 2016.
Revisiting the Birth of Tragedy in Nietzsche: the celebration of life in Rio’s Carnival as mechanism for Conflict Transformation (in Spanish) - XI Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Hispánica de Antropología Filosófica (SHAF). Castellón, May 2014.
Transrational Interpretations of Peace and its Contribution to Alternative Worldviews for a Sustainable, Ethical and Aesthetical Present - Societas Ethica Annual Conference 2013 – Utrecht, Netherlands, August 2013.
From Victimhood to Indignation: Freirean Pedagogy in the Empowering Educational Model (in Spanish) – with Doctor Jennifer Murphy – Universitat Jaume I, November 2012.
Transrational Peaces Methodologies – Universitat Jaume I, November 2012.
5Rhythms and Peaces – Intercultural Seminar – Universitat Jaume I, May 2012.
Integrative Seminar/Non-Violent Communication – Intercultural Seminar – Universitat Jaume I, May 2012.
Book Chapter: Chaozon Bauer, Pearl, Egidio de Bustamante, and Jennifer Murphy. 2024. “Imagining a NonkillingWorld as a Learning Community.” In Nonkilling Relationships. Honolulu, Hawai’i: Center for Global Nonkilling.
Article: Para Além do Tokenismo. In: Culturas e Conhecimentos Disciplinares, Jornal Redes Educativas e Currículos Locais vol. 34: 2022. Laboratório de Educação e Imagem UERJ - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Book Chapter: Revisitando al Nacimiento de la Tragedia en Nietzsche: la celebración de la vida en la fiesta de Carnaval en Rio como mecanismo de transformación de conflictos. In: Humanismo global. Derecho, religión y género (Paris Albert y Comins Mingol: 2016).
Book Review: We Kill Because We Can, Laurie Calhoun. In: Peace Review Vol 27: 2015.
Editor-Collaborator: #Comunicambio: Comunicación y Sociedad Civil para el Cambio Global (Nós Aldás et al: 2015).
Article: Transrational Interpretations of Peace and its Contribution to Alter-native Worldviews for a Sustainable, Ethical and Aesthetical Present. In: Proceedings from the 50th Societas Ethica Annual Conference 2013 Climate Change, Sustainability, and an Ethics of an Open Future, Linköping University Electronic Press, Linköping, Sweden, 2014.