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Visiting Fellows

Ms Charlotte Freeman

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BiographyCharlotte Freeman completed her MA in Human Rights and Cultural Diversity at the University of Essex with distinction in 2010. Her dissertation explored the historical tendency to separate people of different social identities in efforts to resolve inter-group conflict and the negative social and psychological impact of these policies. In her dissertation, she evaluated the effect of intergroup contact on reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a case study inspired by her work in that country with a post-conflict community reconciliation project that uses the creative arts as a vehicle for contact between children of different ethnic backgrounds. Her case study included an analysis of the Dayton Peace Accords and their role in segregating Bosnian society at the socio-political, inter personal and intrapsychic levels.

She is currently working at Yerevan State University’s Centre for European Studies as a Lecturer and International Expert on Human Rights and Democratisation. She designed and is teaching a master’s level course at YSU entitled ‘The Theory and Practice of Intergroup Conflict Transformation in Europe’ and is compiling a yearbook on Human Rights and Democratisation in the EU's Eastern Partnership Region for the European Union. In addition, she is helping the Centre design its new EU Regional MA in Human Rights and Democratisation, which will begin in the autumn of 2011.
Research interests
  • Nationalism and its role in intergroup conflict.
  • The psychosocial elements of intergroup conflict transformation, particularly, the effect of intergroup contact on reconciliation and conflict prevention.
  • The role of human rights and democratisation in the prevention and reconciliation of conflict.
  • Psychosocial concerns regarding consociationalism and other forms of political power sharing as long-term solutions to conflict.
  • Creativity as a tool in conflict prevention and reconciliation to support the development of multifaceted social identities.
  • The lasting psychological effect of communism on conflicts in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

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