Lidia Guardiola Alonso

I’m a PhD student in the Advanced Studies in Human Rights program at the Carlos III University of Madrid. I also have a degree in international relations, a master's degree in advanced studies in human rights, a specialist degree in equality policy management and I am studying a degree in law.

I’ve developed as an independent researcher on issues of Human Rights, gender perspective, studies of North Africa and the Middle East and violence against women, among others. Currently, I’m working at the Spanish Commission for Refugees (CEAR).

Besides, I’m a speaker, lecturer, collaborator and organizer at conferences and workshops on topics of Human Rights, International Law, refuge, gender perspective, etc., having different publications on academic journals.

Planned Research at ODID

The title of my thesis work is "Women as leading agents in peace processes: UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security in the cases of Western Sahara and Palestine". Thus, the purpose of this thesis proposal will aim to study the significance of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security with a view to progressively conquering the representation and prominence of women as key players in peace processes.

The objective of carrying out this work will seek to prove the importance of the culmination of an agenda on women, peace and security in two conflicts in which women have had great involvement and prominence in all realities and edges of the problem is indispensable for proper self-determination and peace negotiation.

Thus, the main objective of the research proposed at the RSC will be to move forward with the part of my doctoral thesis corresponding to Palestinian women and the Palestinian refugees. In this way, I intend to be able to develop the following specific objectives:

• To frame historically and legally the current refugee situation of the Palestinians.
• To analyze the situation of Palestinian women within this context.

In order to achieve the aforementioned objectives, in this proposed research I would focus on carrying out a doctrinal and normative analysis of the historical, socio-political and legal perspectives of refuge in Palestine, with a gender approach. In addition, I will also deal with it from a descriptive perspective, seeking to trace all the dimensions of the specific case of the occupation of Palestine from a gender perspective in order to understand the current situation.