Knowmad institut – European Institute for Multidisciplinary Studies on Human Rights and Science A Think & Do Tank, a voice for Human Dignity in public and private policies

European Institute for Multidisciplinary Studies on Human Rights and Science

A Think & Do Tank, a voice for Human Dignity in public and private policies

Collective Intelligence with Global Impact

Our Knowmad team builds bridges and solutions locally, regionally and internationally.

Sustainable Development

We contribute to the promotion and implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), for a dignified, fair and multipolar world.

Specialized Services

A solid evidence base allows for better accompaniment of governments, industries and civil society to explore and promote innovative initiatives based on human dignity, facts and science.

“In the turbulent world in which we live, the defence of human dignity is becoming more and more important and the Knowmad Institute is proposing an innovative way of approaching current issues through intergenerational collaboration and multidisciplinary research. That is why I believe it is essential to contribute a Latin American vision to the multidisciplinary debate on access to and recognition of human rights at the global level.”

“My interest in the Knowmad Institut is focuses on bringing privacy and decentralisation to the masses as a tool for promoting self determination and independent free thought.”

“Policies and actions that flagrantly violate ethical standards of public health and human rights are often validated and legitimized uncritically. But they have also been inspirational in finding new ways and challenging the changes needed to guide new actions from a humanitarian ethics perspective. I believe that the changes needed to protect and repair the ethnosphere must come from a critical review of the interventions in the light of the ethical aspects involved. I believe that the mission of the Knowmad Institut is in line with my concerns and therefore offers the possibility of generating contributions that reorient the work from a profound respect for Human and Civil Rights.”

“I am joining the Knowmad Institut team to develop trans-disciplinary research that will influence the construction of community strategies in the promotion of mental health and substance abuse through a comprehensive and broad-spectrum approach that incorporates the human rights perspective in global health.”

“Knowmad Institut proposes a new challenge. It is not only the assumption of another multidisciplinary perspective, but a dispute for knowledge. It has been over-diagnosed that international drug policy has practical contradictions with human rights; meanwhile, the same formulas, concepts and norms persist in the establishment of diplomatic discourse, where knowledge is stale in the tradition of any Viennese café. Therefore, if the irruption of new approaches is desirable, the emergence of other knowledge will always be necessary.”

Knowmad Read – Sustainable Solutions

“Uniting science, technology, and society for the advancement of human dignity and sustainable development”

As knowledge nomads we apply our experiences, solve problems and generate new opportunities in a resilient and contextual way. In a hyperconnected and constantly evolving world, we transform information into knowledge.

We are People Knowledge Global Citizens Technology Actions NOT AFRAID OF FAILURE

Natalia Navas

Member of Expert Committee / Editorial Board JMSHRS

Sociologist specialized in labor rights of forced displaced persons, she works in the defense of human rights of marginalized communities, mainly on issues related to the workplace and community development. She is currently the Lead Organizer of the National TPS Alliance. Her research currently focuses on the sociology of transnational political participation of immigrants in New York and in their countries of origin. A graduate of Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, she is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Stony Brook University.

Pedro Salvador Fonseca

Member of the Ethics Committee

European Commission and One Young World Peace Ambassador, with a Master’s Degree in Conflict Resolution, Peace and Development from the United Nations Mandated-University for Peace, and a Diplomacy and International Relations Degree from American University (UAM) Nicaragua. He was consultant and analyst to the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS), and holds a strong academic career as Titular Professor of International Relations and Conflict Resolution at the School of Law and International Relations of American University (UAM) in Nicaragua, among other academic projects.

Raquel Peyraube

Member of the Ethics Committee

Medical Doctor from the School of Medicine from the University of the Republic of Uruguay, specialized in Drugs and Endocanabinology. She is the founder and current president of the Uruguayan Society of Endocanabinology (SUEN). She is a researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of the Republic in Uruguay working on regulatory models for medicinal cannabis, is a member of the International Cannabinoids Research Society, and in 2017 she became a member of the Council at the International Cannabinoid Association as a Medications (IACM).

David Bruna

Member of Experts Committee

One Young World Ambassador and Co-Founder of the Ibero-American Leadership Network for Development (RELID). Degree in Philosophy with studies in Humanities and Liberal Arts, Diploma in Citizen Security from the Alberto Hurtado University, and Diploma in Political Communication from the University of Montevideo. As Public Safety Advisor to the Ministry of the Interior in the Government of Chile, during the administration of President Michelle Bachelet, he managed the participation of Caritas Santiago in the implementation of public policies on crime prevention.

Dulce María Pallero

Editorial Board JMSHRS

Psychologist-psychoanalyst. Former lecturer at the University Extension Department of the School of Psychology, Universidad Nacinal de La Plata (UNLP). Co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Team of Childhood of the FaHCE, UNLP. Student of the Specialization in Education, Gender and Sexualities, FaHCE, UNLP. Member of the Network of Feminist Psychologists (Argentina).

Marcos Knoblauch

Member of Expert Committee / Editorial Board JMSHRS

Aeronautical Engineer, Master in Space and Aeronautics by Technische Universität München (TUM) – Germany – and Cranfield University – UK -, and Master in Human Rights by UNLP – Argentina. He has worked continuously as a teacher and researcher in applied sciences, in the field of space technology. He has worked extensively in human rights advocacy with marginalized communities in regions of armed conflict and military occupation. He is currently a member of an international accompaniment organization that supports communities and leaders at high risk based in Colombia.

Daniela Kreher

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Theologian and Social Researcher specialized in international drug policy and cannabis research. She has extensive experience in project management, interfaith relations and international networking with NGOs and FBOs. (Europe, LATAM)

Martin Díaz

Co-Funder & CEO

Theologian, priest and social researcher specialized in human rights, drug policy, and emerging technologies. He has coordinated multiple projects and conducted specialized publications in the Americas and Europe. It has extensive experience in advocacy work at the international level. (LATAM, Europe)

Anja Loizaga-Velder

Member of Experts Committee

Clinical psychologist with a doctorate in medical psychology (Dr.sc.hum.) from Heidelberg University, Germany. Psychotherapist specialized in humanistic and transpersonal psychology and researcher of traditional medicine and sacred plants and their potential for psychotherapy. She is co-founder and director of psychotherapy and research at the Nierika A.C. Institute of Intercultural Medicine, as well as professor and postgraduate researcher in Medical and Health Sciences at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Andrés M. Pérez-Acosta

Director of the JMSHRS Editorial Board

Senior Professor of Psychology at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the Universidad del Rosario (Bogota, Colombia). His research program involves the basic and applied psychology of associative learning, within which he is developing the Observatory of Self-Medication Behavior. (Colombia)

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Knowmad Short Film Festival (KSFF)

The Knowmad Short Film Festival is a creative effort of the European Institute for Multidisciplinary Studies on Human Rights and Sciences – Knowmad Institut; that opens intercultural exchange and contributes to making visible the alternative narratives that reflect the current state of human dignity.

This festival aims to turn information into knowledge.
The festival seeks to promote SDGs 10, 16, and 17.

The KSFF contributes to the dissemination of the experiences of communities and individuals who contribute to the construction of peace, the preservation of the ethnosphere, promote sustainable development, and generate opportunities in a resilient and contextual way.

At Knowmad Institut we work to give voice and action to Human Dignity and Human Rights in public and private policies.

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With your donation you help to protect human dignity and support our team in carrying out actions around sustainable development, human rights, special populations, drug policy, ethnobotany and new technologies.

We bring your voice to significant instances, prepare strategic meetings, documents with reliable information and public initiatives in order to promote the objectives of each program.

Knowmad Institut gemeinnützige UG (haftungsbeschränkt) is a public interest and non-profit organization for the promotion of science and research. It is registered in Germany under the trade register number HRB 17148 FF in Frankfurt Oder.

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