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Bayan Arouri

Grant Holder, Doctoral Research

About me

I am a doctoral researcher at Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPPRI). I completed my M.A. in Human Rights and Human Development at the University of Jordan. 

Fields of expertise

My current Ph.D. research focuses on everyday violence and peace practices within Syrian refugee communities in Jordan and Finland. This study envisages a renewed conceptualization of peace in forced migration based on lived realities. It aims to rethink the understanding(s) of violence and peace forms within refugee communities through a decolonial lens. To do so, it builds on ethnographic methodologies and post-colonial feminist theories that locate the primary source of knowledge in the experiences of marginalized groups.

Research fields

  • Everyday Peace & Epistemic Violence in the So-called Middle East
  • Mobility & Forced Displacement
  • Critical Development & Humanitarianism
  • Decolonial & Postcolonial Feminism
  • Everyday Resistance and Resilience
  • Ethnographic Methodologies

Funding

(1) Finnish National Agency for Education 2022 (2) Finnish Cultural Foundation 2023 (3) Niilo Helanderin Foundation