Team

• Chair for Systematic Theology and Ethics, Faculty of Theology

martin.leiner@uni-jena.de 

• Coordinator, Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies (JCRS)
• Coordinator, Graduate Programme "Religion-Conflict-Reconciliation" (RCR)
• Coordinator, Martin-Buber-Forschungsstelle
• Post-Doc Research Fellow, Chair for Systematic Theology and Ethics
• Editor, "Buber Korrespondenzen Digital" (cooperation between Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz, Goethe Universität Frankfurt und Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena)
• Secretary, International Association for Reconciliation Studies (IARS)

francesco.ferrari@uni-jena.de

• Research Fellow / Project Coordinator, Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies (JCRS), FSU Jena
• Adjunct Professor of Arabic Language, University of Parma, Italy.
• Advisor on Islam in Europe, CEI, Conference of Italian Bishops, Rome, Italy.
• Cultore della Materia in Arabic Language and Literature and Islamic Studies at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy.
• Advisor / Supervisor, Pro.I.Mi. Project (U.N. Led Refugee Welcoming Project), Piacenza, Italy.

davide.tacchini@uni-jena.de

• Project Coordinator, AARMENA Network (Middle East and North Africa), Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies;
• Post-Doc Research Fellow/ Applied Ethics, Faculty of Theology/ Department of Systematic Theology and Ethics;
• Project Manager for Erasmus Plus Project;
• ORCID digital profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1489-2551External link  

a.aldajani@uni-jena.de

• Research Associate, Von Huegel Institute, University of Cambridge. 2019-2022
• Coordinator, DFG Project “Hearts of Flesh - not Stone” (Palestinian Team)
• Post-Doc Research Fellow, Social Science, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

zeina.barakat@uni-jena.de

• Visiting Scholar, Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies
• Research Fellow, School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham, UK
• Director, Peace Charter for Forgiveness and Reconciliation,
• Member, Standing Commission 1: Promoting Peaceful, Just, and Inclusive Societies, Religions for Peace international
• josef.boehle@uni-jena.de

• Researcher, Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies

obrienca@hawaii.edu

• Lecturer and researcher in conflict analysis, security, and peacebuilding
• Researcher of the Study Center for the Reconciliation of the University of Jena in Germany (JCRS)
• Fellowship  researcher of the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CALAS)
• Lecturer and researcher at the University Externado of Colombia, IGAC Colombia, National University of Medellin Colombia, University of Jena, the FLACSO in Quito, Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of Leipzig in Germany
• Founding member of the network of Critical Geography Rooted in Latin American -GEORAIZAL

luis.b.pena@uni-jena.de 

• Researcher, Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies

jean-marc.tetaz@bluewin.ch

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• researcher at the Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies

• Non-Resident Scholar, Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies (JCRS)

2011.villanueva.l@gmail.com.

• Ph.D Candidate, Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies, FSU Jena
• Dissertation title: Seeking Sustainable Development through Reconciliation: The Role of Korean NGOs in Ethiopian Ethnic Conflict
• Email : mi.ka.an@uni-jena.de

• Ph.D Candidate, Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies, FSU Jena

jonghyuk.chang@uni-jena.de

• Ph.D Researcher, Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies (JCRS)
• Associated member, Human Rights Center, Sussex University, UK
• Researcher, DEMOS / Research Center for Peace, Democracy and Alternative Politics, Ankara, Turkey
• Dissertation title: "Localising Transitional Justice and Reconciliation in Turkey's Kurdish Conflict"

gunes.dasli@uni-jena.de

• Ph.D Candidate, Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies, FSU Jena

manarfaraj@gmail.com

• Ph.D Candidate, Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies, FSU Jena

marcus.grohmann@gmx.de

• Ph.D Candidate, Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies, FSU Jena
• Dissertation title: Hybrid War & Media Confrontation in Russian-Ukrainian Conflict 2014-2019. Ways of Reconciliation and Creating a Peaceful Relation
• Guest Lecturer - General Organization of Labor in Israel “Histadrut”
• Guest Lecturer - UAPP - Ukrainian Association for Psychosyntesis Psychotherapy

binyamin.gurstein@uni-jena.de 

• Ph.D Candidate, Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies, FSU Jena
• Current Ph.D. Research Topic:  Reconciliation in Colossians: A Transdisciplinary Approach

khupma@gmail.com

• Ph.D Candidate, Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies, FSU Jena
• Dissertation title: Germany-Greece and the wounds of WWII: German Foreign Policy and Greek Martyr Communities
• Trainer for Political Education at ver.di
• Independent political consultant at polisis.eu

c.karpouchtsis@uni-jena.de

• Ph.D Candidate, Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies, FSU Jena

langhizahraa@gmail.com

• Ph.D Candidate, Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies, FSU Jena

nathalie.manco@gmail.com

• Ph.D Candidate, Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies, FSU Jena

natila01@yahoo.com

• Ph.D Candidate, Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies, FSU Jena

pedrohsalgado@gmail.com

• Ph.D Candidate, Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies, FSU Jena
• Marketing Manager, Saeh Bookstore, Tripoli Lebanon

Hiba.sarrouj@gmail.com

• Ph.D Candidate, Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies, FSU Jena

Georg.Schmolz@mdr.de

• Ph.D Candidate, Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies, FSU Jena
• Co-founder/project manager of Peace Development Center, Tbilisi, Georgia
• Dissertation title: Political Meaning of Reconciliation Concept in Georgian-Abkhaz Conflict: Analyzing Georgia’s State Peace Policy

shvelidzeshota@yahoo.com