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FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES -- Christos Kyrou
Christos Kyrou
Ph.D. State University of New York, College of Environmental Science & Forestry
M.E. Plymouth State University, Environmental Science
B.A. Educational Institute of Agricultural Technology of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Telephone: (202) 885-1600, (202) 885-1543
E-mail: kyrou@american.edu
Dr. Christos Kyrou is an Assistant Professor at the School of International Service (SIS) at American University. He is a Project Manager and Practitioner at the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue (IISD), and also Member of the Resource Board for the Center for International Relations in Washington, DC.
He holds a PhD in Environmental Science from the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Association with Syracuse University, a Masters of Education in Environmental Science from Plymouth State University, New Hampshire, a Certificate in Advanced Studies in Conflict Resolution from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, and a BS from the Educational Institute of Agricultural Technology of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is originally from Thessaloniki, Greece, and he became an American citizen in 2000.
At American University Professor Kyrou is teaching courses on conflict analysis and resolution, victims of violence, dialogue, environmental peacemaking, theories on war, violence and conflict, and peace paradigms. He has published journal articles, and has presented his work at conferences on conflict and conflict resolution on areas relating to the environment, insurgencies, risk, and the practice of Dialogue. He is the author of Peace Ecology, the philosophy underpinning the use of opportunities in the environment for building bridges of collaboration between parties in conflict. He is the founder and former director of the Environmental Peacemaking Program at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management at the University of Maryland (CIDCM).
His peace building practice IISD includes the project "Talking One Generation Ahead" (TOGA) a Sustained Dialogue project in Northern Ireland involving young, emerging leaders of five prominent political parties, as well as other dialogues both in the US and overseas.
His current research project examines human security as a function of state legitimacy from the perspective of insurgency groups including Northern Ireland, the Basque Region, the Middle East, and Colombia.
He has led and participated in several peace-initiatives both abroad and in the US and has received the "Peacemaking Award for Commitment to Building Peace at the Individual, Local or Global Level" by the Program of International Peace and Conflict Resolution, The Peacebuilding and Development Institute, and the Center for Building International, at American University, in 2005.
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