Irene Lizzola is PhD student in Political Science at Sciences Po Bordeaux, attached to the research unit Les Afriques dans le Monde (LAM – CNRS UMR 5115). Alumna of the Master of Advanced Studies in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and the Rule of Law (Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights) and of the Master in Ethnology and Social Anthropology (École des Hautes Études en Science Sociales, EHESS), Irene conducts her research in the fields of sociology of law and international political sociology. Irene’s doctoral research aims to study advocacy practices carried out by both Moroccan and international human rights non-governmental organisations (NGOs) within cooperation and/or partnership frameworks. In particular, it focuses on the study of the advocacy for the abolition of the death penalty in Morocco, on the international cooperation in the field of migration, as well as on a range of advocacy activities aimed at reforming the field of security governance according to a human rights-based approach.
