Adjunct professor at the Lausanne Faculty of Medicine and the founder and director of Cordoba Peace Institute – Geneva (CPI), which since 2002 has been working on violence prevention, conflict transformation and peacemaking in societies with Muslim populations. Abbas Aroua is the author of “Introduction to Conflict Transformation” (CPI, Geneva 2023), “The Quest for Peace in the Islamic Tradition” (Kolofon Press, Oslo 2013), “The Work of Goodness: A Comprehensive Approach to Human Security” (CPI, Geneva 2010), and other research papers available online at cpi-geneva.org.