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    Franco Castro Escobar

    Franco Castro Escobar

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    PhD candidate
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    Email
    f.f.castro.escobar@keele.ac.uk

    Biography

    I am a PhD researcher, part-funded by the David Bruce Centre, currently studying youth involvement in the nuclear disarmament movement. My research aims to understand young people’s motivations to join a decades-long movement that has experienced a "greying effect"—having less and less young people joining antinuclear groups. As an oral history project, my research aims to compensate for an overabundance of written records and explores the role of collective memory “from below” while the movement transitions into a period with no living memory of the use of nuclear weapons in war (e.g., aging Hibakusha and World-War-2 veterans).

    In 2023, I joined Keele University’s David Bruce Centre for the study of the Americas and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Previously, I studied at the University of San Diego (MA in Peace and Justice, 2023) as a Fulbright scholar; Lancaster University (MA in Conflict Resolution, 2021) as a CONACYT grantee; and Universidad de las Americas Puebla (BA in Political Science and International Relations, 2018) in Mexico—where I am originally from.

    Professionally, I have collaborated with institutions like the Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, Amnesty International, and the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, working in cross-border program design, monitoring & evaluation, restorative justice, conflict resolution, and leadership development.

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