Project Partners and Co-conveners
“2R2Ps for Sustainable Peace” Initiative is an international collaboration between the Embassy of Costa Rica in Ankara, Hacettepe University and University for Peace.
The co-conveners of the project are (in alphabetical order):
Pınar GÖZEN ERCAN (Turkey) is associate professor of International Relations. She is a faculty member and the chair of the Branch of Public International Law at the Department of International Relations of Hacettepe University, Turkey. She holds a BA and MA degree in International Relations from Bilkent University, Turkey. She obtained her PhD from the University of Trento, Italy. She has served as one of the co-convenors of the Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect Working Group of the British International Studies Association between 2017 and 2020, and is a member of the European Center for the Responsibility to Protect. She researches and publishes intensively on the Responsibility to Protect. Her areas of research also include international law and the law of the sea and International Relations theories. Besides various journal articles and book chapters, she has authored the books entitled Debating the Future of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’: The Evolution of a Moral Norm (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), and The Territorial Sea Issue in Greek-Turkish Relations (VDM Verlag, 2009), and edited Turkish Foreign Policy: International Relations, Legality and Global Reach (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) as well as The Responsibility to Protect From Twenty Years On: Rhetoric and Implementation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
Gustavo CAMPOS PALLAS (Costa Rica) is the Ambassador of the Republic of Costa Rica in the Republic of Turkey. He is an International Relations and Negotiations Specialist from the Latin American Faculty on Social Sciences (Flacso) in Argentina. Holds an MA in Philosophy and in Law from the Central American Autonomous University. He has conducted post-graduate studies in Private and Public International Law from the International Law Academy of the Hague, from the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and from the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Brazil. He is a career diplomat with 27 years of experience, who has served as Ambassador, Special Mission Ambassador and Deputy of Head of Mission in different Embassies and missions of Costa Rica in Turkey, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, New York, Argentina and Chile. He has also been part of the Delegate of Costa Rica to advise at the International Court of Justice in the Hague. He served as a member of the Delegation of the Republic of Costa Rica in four cases before the International Court of Justice, as a delegate member to the International Criminal Court, and to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, as well as the Costa Rican delegate to the Hague Conference on Private International Law. He served as the Coordinator of Strategic Planning of Foreign Policy and Director Consular Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has also taught in the MA programs on Diplomacy, Diplomatic and Consular Law, Public International Law and Human Rights in universities in Costa Rica.
David FERNANDEZ PUYANA (Spain) is the Permanent Observer of the UN University for Peace to the UN Geneva and UNESCO Paris. He holds a Ph.D. with European Mention and the degree on Law and Philosophy and Education Science, as well as, several Masters on human rights (Universities of Essex, Barcelona, Alcalá de Henares and Pompeu Fabra). He was the coordinator of the UNESCO Liaison Office at Geneva. He is Professor of International Law and European Studies at the Abat Oliba University and legal assistant of Paz sin Fronteras. He worked as a legal Counselor at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Costa Rica to the UN in Geneva and the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Intergovernmental Open-Ended Working Group on the Right to Peace. He served for several non-governmental organizations, as well as, the Human Rights Office of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Kingdom of Spain. For his contribution to the attainment of peace, human rights and gender equality, he was appointed fellow by the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, member of the Club of Rome and International Gender Champion. He received a Human Rights Award by the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law of the American University Washington College of Law (USA). He has written several books and outstanding academic papers and articles.
Hacettepe University 2R2Ps Research Group
HUR2P-RG comprises of volunteering PhD and MA students, who conduct research on the Responsibility to Protect and the Right to Peace under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pınar Gözen Ercan. For more details about the Research Group please click here.