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Ved Pant

Harvard International Relations Council
Member of the Harvard International Relations Council and author at the Harvard International Review.
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Viera Žúborová

CORRECTIV
Development Manager
Viera Žúborová is a political scientist. In her work she focuses on the themes of populism, extremism, social movements, civil society, political communication and hate speech. In the past, she was a senior research fellow at the Center for European and North Atlantic Affairs (CENAA) in Bratislava and a scholar-in-residence at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) at Oxford University. Currently, she works as a development manager at the investigative newsroom CORRECTIV, where she is implementing an exile media project called Radio Sakharov.
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Vít Dostál

Association for International Affairs (AMO)
Executive Director
Vít Dostál is the Executive Director of AMO. He focuses on Czech foreign and European policy, Central European cooperation, and Polish foreign and domestic policy.
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Viviana García Pinzón

Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute (ABI) Freiburg and Institute for Latin American Studies at GIGA
Senior Researcher and Associate
Viviana García Pinzón is Senior Researcher at the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute (ABI) in Freiburg and Associate at the Institute for Latin American Studies at GIGA. She holds a PhD in Political Science, with a focus on peace and conflict studies, from the Philipps University of Marburg and was part of the GIGA Doctoral Programme. Her research focuses on conflict and violence, local governance, peace and security with emphasis on cities and borderlands and a regional focus on Latin America. Her research was awarded the Christiane-Rajewsky Prize by the German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies (AFK) in 2023 and the ADLAF-Prize (first place) by the German Association for Research on Latin America (ADLAF) in 2024.
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