Peer Schouten (1983) is a graduate student of International Relations and Social Science Theory at the Complutense University of Madrid.
He was born and raised in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, but has been living abroad since 2006.
Current research interests
- International Relations Theory
- Conflict Prevention & Resolution
- Africa & International Relations
- Angola's Post-colonial History and Politics
- Ethnicity, Identity and Social Change
- Ideology & Political Philosophy
- Social Effects of Economic Globalization
Previous Education
Peer Schouten holds two bachelor degrees, one in Language and Communication (University of Amsterdam, 2006) and one in Portuguese Studies (Utrecht University, 2007). He furthermore holds diploma's in Interdisciplinary Studies (Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, Amsterdam) and Conflict Prevention (Unidad de Investigación sobre Seguridad y Cooperación Internacional (UNISCI), Complutense University of Madrid).
Before coming to Madrid, Spain, Peer has studied one year in Portugal (Coimbra University) and two in the Netherlands.
Professional skills
Peer masters the following languages:
- Dutch
- Portuguese (excellent)
- Spanish (excellent)
- English (equally excellent)
- French (reasonable)
- German (fairly poor)
- Editor-in-chief of Babel, the Monthly Review of the Arts Faculty of the University of Amsterdam;
- Freelance journalist for Folia Civitatis, the weekly magazine of the University of Amsterdam;
- Freelance journalist for Z Magazine, a non-profit magazine dedicated to, and distributed by, homeless people in Amsterdam;
- Corrector and editor for Sem Fronteiras Magazine, a bilingual (Portuguese and Dutch) magazine principally dedicated to the Brazilian culture
- Co-editor of a book on Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa.
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