Agnese Macaluso is a junior consultant at The Hague Institute for Global Justice under the Conflict Prevention Program. She holds a Master’s Degree (cum laude) in international Relations and European Studies from the University of Florence, with a thesis on South African Relations with China and the economic and political impact of this partnership at regional and international level. She previously studied at the University of Palermo and at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Rennes, in France.
Besides short working experiences in the public administration and NGOs during the studies, she specialized in EU foreign policy toward Africa, working from September 2012 for the Permanent Representation of Italy to the EU, where she focused on Common Security and Defense Policy and EU-Sub-Saharan Africa Relations. In March 2013, Agnese was selected for an internship at the European External Action Service, where she focused primarily on EU relations with South Africa and Zimbabwe.
After three years of civil war in Syria, there is clear evidence that both the government and rebel groups have deliberately starved civilian populations
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