Franco is a PhD researcher at Keele University (UK) studying youth antinuclear activism in 21st century Japan and Canada. Click on the images on this page to read his recent articles, blogs, and other works.

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His PhD project has been funded by Keele's School of Humanities and Social Sciences & the David Bruce Centre for the Study of the Americas (2023-2026); as well as the UK Turing Scheme and Hiroshima City University (2024). 

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Currently, he teaches International Relations & Politics undergraduate modules at Keele University as a Session Teacher and works as PGR Officer at BISA's Global Nuclear Order working group (2026). 

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Previously, Franco was an inaugural member of the University of Glasgow’s Atomic Anxiety in the New Nuclear Age Fellowship (2025) and the UN Youth Leader Fund for a World Without Nuclear Weapons (2024). He graduated as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of San Diego's MA in Peace and Justice (2023) and holds an MA in Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies from Lancaster University (2021).

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Franco's academic interests revolve around nuclear weapons, oral history,  social movements, peace studies, and conflict resolution. Professionally, Franco is trained as bilingual Restorative Justice dialogue facilitator, having also worked as project manager implementing cross-border Design, Monitoring and Evaluation strategies; and as a human rights campaigner specialist.

 

Franco co-founded the practice-oriented peacebuilding podcast now known as the Kroc Pod, linked at the top of this page.  ​

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