Daniela Irrera

Biography

Daniela Irrera (PhD in International Relations, University of Catania) is Associate Professor of Political Science and IR at the University of Catania, where she teaches International Politics and Global civil society. She serves as IR Deputy at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Catania. Visiting Fellow in various Universities in Europe, US, Asia and Canada. She has been awarded with a DAAD Fellowship at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt and with a research grant at the European Union Center of Excellence, University of Alberta, Canada. She is member of the steering committee of the ECPR Standing Group on International Relations and of the ECPR Standing Group on Organised Crime and member of editorial board of EuropeNow (issued by CES). She is part of several research projects funded by the EU under Jean Monnet Action, Lifelong Learning Programme, and Horizon 2020. She has directed the Erasmus Intensive Summer School on Serious and Organised Crime, held in Catania in 2014, funded by Lifelong Learning Programme. She is currently working as a team member of the H2020 TransCrisis project, focusing on the issue of ‘Managing Immigration Crisis’ (www.transcrisis.eu); and listed as expert for EU CIVCAP, a project on Preventing and Responding to Conflict: Developing Civilian Capabilities for a Sustainable Peace.

Research Interest

Non-state actors, International Relations, Civil society and NGOs, Terrorism and connections with organised crime, EU security and defence policy and Peace missions; conflict management and mediation