Katarzyna Anna Przybyła

Katarzyna A. Przybyła is a peace and conflict studies scholar-practitioner and a lecturer at Civitas University, Poland. She was the founder and the head of the Strategic Peace and Conflict Studies program there (the first such program in Poland), run with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) until 2022, and an associate editor of “Peace Review”. Katarzyna teaches, writes, runs projects and workshops, and speaks at conferences on topics related to peace and conflict studies, political violence and nonviolent resistance, Eastern Europe, as well as conflict analysis/transformation and strategic thinking. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, US (2014-2015), in 2018 – a GMF’s Marshall Memorial Fellow. In the past, she worked in the analytical center Polityka Insight as senior editor and director of analysis, and at the National Security Bureau of Poland, where she was responsible for the former Soviet Union affairs, NATO-Russia relations and international organizations, among others.