Phill Gittins, PhD, is Education Director at World BEYOND War. He is an educator, practitioner, researcher, and author with over 20 years’ leadership, programming, and analysis experience in the areas of peace, education, psychology, youth, and community development. He has lived, worked, studied, and travelled in over 60 countries, taught in schools, colleges, and universities around the world, and trained thousands of practitioners and activists on peace, security, and social change-related issues. Phill has led and supported a wide range of education programmes, research initiatives, and multi-stakeholder collaborations across civil society, public institutions, and international networks. He is a Rotary Peace Fellow, Kathryn Davis Fellow for Peace, and Positive Peace Activator and Global Peace Index Ambassador for the Institute for Economics and Peace. Phill holds a PhD in International Conflict Analysis, an MA in Education, and a BA (Hons) in Youth and Community Studies, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Peace Education.
Phill can be reached at phill@worldbeyondwar.org