Paula Ditzel Facci

Paula Ditzel Facci is a dancing researcher and facilitator in peace and conflict studies. She teaches at the Unit for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Innsbruck, Austria, and at Instituto Paz e Mente, Brazil, and facilitates workshops on methods of elicitive conflict transformation with focus on dance and movement for students, peacebuilders and communities. She holds a PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University Jaume I, Spain. She was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, Eastern Mennonite University, USA.  She is the author of "Dancing Conflicts, Unfolding Peaces" (2020), and of "On Human Potential: Peace and Conflict Transformation Fostered Through Dance" (2011). She also authored chapters in culture of peace for educators and youth and was a consultant in Reports on Human Rights Education of the InterAmerican Institute of Human Rights, Costa Rica. Paula worked for 5 years with social and educational projects in Brazil, her native country.