Aldo Civico
Director

Aldo Civico, a research associate for CICR since 2000, is the new Director of the Center. Dr. Civico, an anthropologist by training, joined CICR in the summer of 2000 when he developed a project for Reconciliation and Confidence Building among religious leaders in the Western Balkans. Since 2003 he has being doing fieldwork in Colombia on forced displacement, the urban conflict of Medellín, and paramilitarism. His research interests are mainly related to conflict, human rights, refugees, democracy, political violence, resistance, state, sovereignty, and civil society. He designed and implemented conflict resolution workshops in Colombia (Medellín, Turbo, Sapzurro and Capurganá), and Haiti. He has been teaching courses at the New School of New York and the William Paterson University. He is author of La Scelta (Piemme, Italy) and a contributing author with a chapter on Colombian paramilitarism in the book Engaged Observer by Victoria Sanford and Asale Angel-ajani (Rutgers University Press). Before coming to the United State, Mr. Civico was active in the anti-Mafia movement led in Palermo, Sicily, by Leoluca Orlando. He worked for many years as a freelance journalist for Italian, German, and Swiss media. In 1996, he graduated in political science and sociology from the University of Bologna, Italy. He is currently a doctoral candidate in applied anthropology at the Columbia University/Teachers College.