Franco Castro Escobar
I am a PhD researcher at Keele University (UK). My research currently focuses on nuclear disarmament and youth activism. Please click on the images on this page to read my articles, blogs, and recent works.
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My PhD project has been funded by the David Bruce Centre for the Study of the Americas (2023-2026), the Hiroshima Peace Institute (2024) and the UK Turing Scheme (2024). I am an inaugural member of the Atomic Anxiety fellowship program at University of Glasgow's (2025-2026), and inaugural member of the UNODA Youth Leader Fund for a World Without Nuclear Weapons (2024).
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My academic interests revolve around nuclear weapons, oral history, social movements, peace studies, and conflict resolution.
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Professionally, I have taught and tutored for International Relations undergraduate modules. I am trained as bilingual Restorative Justice dialogue facilitator. I have worked as project manager implementing cross-border Design, Monitoring and Evaluation strategies; and as a human rights campaigner specialist. I co-founded a practice-oriented podcast for peacebuilding.
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Previously, I was a Fulbright scholar at the University of San Diego's Kroc School (2023), a CONACyT awardee at Lancaster University (2021), and a scholarship recipient at my alma mater, Universidad de las Américas Puebla (2018).
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