GLOBALCODES: Globalization, conflict, security and development
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The main aim of the research group is to contribute to the scientific debate on how to respond to the global challenges of globalization, sustainable development and security, including both peace and conflicts and other threats. Research is stimulated through the lenses of a variety of disciplines within social sciences such as international relations and political science, communication, international law, history and sociology. The group offers a space for collaborative research, both for Blanquerna’s researchers and for visiting scholars and is part of several international networks.
GLOBALCODES generates theoretical and empirical knowledge in fields of growing importance within social sciences. Research is encouraged as interdisciplinary (and mostly qualitative), although critical studies and bottom-up approaches are privileged. The group also organises research seminars.
Group work areas
- Limits, Problems and Transformations in International Peace and Security (Oscar Mateos): Specifically, it focuses on three key areas: a) critical debates on the motivations, effects and dilemmas of peace interventions and international security strategies; b) the implications for the global governance of peace and security in light of the increasing presence of Global South actors in these contexts; and c) discussions on alternative approaches, particularly sociocentric perspectives, to international peace and security.
- The Spiralling of (In)securities: Migration, Prejudice and Intersectionality (Valeria Bello). The objectives of this research line are, among others: To further the understandings of the role of certain prejudicial cognitions in International Relations, to examine spiralling dynamics of insecurities and the forces that feed them and to apply the spiralling theory to the analysis of narratives, practices and policies in the areas of migration, prejudice and intersectionality.
- Transitional Justice, Memory Politics and Prevention of Violence (Carles Fernández-Torné): This line of research explores transitional justice mechanisms, such as truth commissions, trials, reparations, institutional reforms, and guarantees of non-repetition, and how they break previous cycles of violence. Additionally, research focuses on bottom-up perspectives to address grievances, foster accountability, and build trust in institutions. At the same time, it explores the relationship, frictions and conflicts between global transitional justice measures and the local level.
- Representation of conflicts through art (Iván Gómez): The objective of this line of research is to analyze and reflect on the different artistic possibilities that can be used in the representation of political and military conflicts. from this line of research, stories, fictions, memories, political speeches, essays and any other cultural and artistic manifestations that speak, explain, situate or justify a conflict and its participants, as well as their ultimate intentions and objectives, are analyzed.
WHAT4WHOM: Percepciones de seguridad en el escenario de la pandemia covid-19.
PI: Òscar Mateos.
Funding: Ministerio de Innovación y Ciencia.
2022-2026.
Redacció de l’esborrany de política pública de pau a Catalunya
PI: Carles Fernández-Torné
Funding: Institut Català Internacional per la Pau
2025
Informe sobre l’estat de la immigració a Catalunya el 2023
PI: Valeria Bello
Funding: Fundació ACSAR
2024
Climate change and securitization in the Sahel. Emerging insecuritization frameworks from the ecological security paradigm
PI: Oscar Mateos
Funding: Institut Català Internacional per la Pau
2023-2024
A Rethink of the EU Sahel Strategy. From Problematic Decision-Making to a New ‘Transformative Pragmatism’
PI: Oscar Mateos
Funding: Grup dels Verds/ALE al Parlament Europeu
2023-2024
Religious Freedom in Africa 2023.
PI: Míriam Díez.
Funding: Aid to the Church in Need.
2021-2022.
Monograph on African challenges for the Revista IDEES.
PI: Òscar Mateos (GLOBALCODES) and Idayat Hassan (Centre for Development and Democracy, Nigèria).
Funding: Centre d’Estudis Contemporanis - Generalitat de Catalunya.
2021-2022
What truth? A critical look at the plurality of civil society discourses on the construction of truth in post-war contexts.
PI: Òscar Mateos.
Funding: Institut Català Internacional per la PAU (ICIP) i AGAUR - Generalitat de Catalunya.
2021.
Security and insecurity in the borders: policy implementation in the state limits.
PI: Òscar Mateos (GLOBALCODES) i Sergio Caballero (Universitat de Deusto).
Funding: Aristos Campus Mundus.
2019-2020.
Services offered by the group
Consulting.
Organizing Seminars.
Policy papers and Policy documents.
