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Franca Beccaria, PhD., sociologist, partner in Eclectica, a research institute in Torino (Italy), vice-director at the EMDAS, European Master on Drug and Alcohol Studies, University of Torino (Italy) and Associate professor (title of docent), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki. Affiliate: University of Helsinki Centre for Research on Addiction, Control and Governance (CEACG). Her main research interests are drinking cultures, drugs, gambling, addictions, social and health policies, health promotion, stakeholders and community engagement.

Professor of Social Work and Social Policy at the Department of Sociology and Director of Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. His research is focused on criminal justice, social legislations, prisoners, juvenile crimes, mental health, social innovation, divorce, refugees and war, child abuse, and Arab youth.

Al Gharaibeh is a consultant in social policies with many agencies; he has published many articles both in Jordan and internationally. He received many awards in recognition of his research and service. He received his PhD in Social Work and Social Policy from the Dept. of Social Work and Social Policy and the Centre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University of Technology, Australia

Furkan Halit Yolcu is a Ph.D. candidate and a research assistant currently working as the head of Security Studies desk at the Middle East Institute, Sakarya University, Turkey. Mr. Yolcu both studied in Spain and Turkey. He has been involved in several research activities along with Ph.D. research. His Ph.D. dissertation is funded by TUBİTAK which is the most prominent research institution of Turkey. He is primarily interested in Middle East, neo-realist international relations theory, civil-military relations, arms and security studies. Apart from the Ph.D. dissertation, Mr. Yolcu’s research activities are focused on the area of media studies. He focuses on the uses of propaganda in Turkish politics. Mr. Yolcu has published various articles both in local and international journals. Mr. Yolcu has also participated in various national and international seminars/conferences around the world.

Isabella Merzagora is full professor of Criminology at the Faculty of Medicine and at the Faculty of Law (State University of Milan).
She teaches in a lot of academic courses and coordinates a Post-Laurea course of Criminology and Criminal Psychology.
She is President of the Italian Society of Criminology.
She is author of more than 280 papers, and 18 monographs.
She has been appointed by some national and international institutions as an expert in the fields of criminology and forensic psychopathology.
She worked as an expert in some Italian jails and Courts.
She makes expertises about defence of insanity for a lots of Italian Courts, also in very well-known cases.
She has been lectures in more than two hundreds conferences.
She leads a project for the criminological treatment of abusing partners.
Currently her main interest is in the fields of genocides and of bioethical topics (medical tragic choices and disabled people treatment).