Catia Confortini

Catia Confortini is Associate Professor of Peace and Justice Studies at Wellesley College.  Her research interests focus on the contribution of women’s peace activism to peace studies as an academic field and as a practice. In her many collaborations with the Ikeda Center, she has given special attention to the ways her interests connect with and inform the practice of peacebuilding dialogue. Her first official Ikeda Center appearance was at the 2018 Ikeda Forum, called “How Do We Practice Human Rights? A Dialogue on Dignity and Justice in Daily Life.” Subsequently, in 2019 she was a participant in the Center’s yearlong experiment in sustained intergenerational dialogue. Most recently, she co-convened, with Dr. Jason Goulah, two sessions of the Global Citizens seminar, which brought doctoral students together to discuss themes from Daisaku Ikeda’s 2022 peace proposal. In 2019, the Center’s Mitch Bogen interviewed her about the interrelationship of feminism and peacebuilding.

Photo by Marilyn Humphries