Dr. Giulio Levorato
Postdoctoral Researcher at Leiden University
Giulio Levorato is a post-doc researcher at Leiden University. His research focuses on conflict management and resolution strategies, with a focus on international organizations. Recently, his work has been dedicated to studying the impact of power competition on peace dynamics. He has been teaching and/or researching, among else, at the University of Naples L'Orientale (Italy), the University EAN of Bogota (Colombia), the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (Switzerland), and the University Ramon Llull (Spain). He is the author of the book "Liberal Peacebuilding in Times of Change" (Routledge), and of several research articles appeared in top-tier international journals
Qualification
PhD
Research Interests
Peacebuilding, Diplomacy, Mediation, Collective Conflict Management
Publications
- Levorato, G. (2026). “Liberal Peacebuilding in Time of Change: the UN, the EU and the Politics of Continuity”, Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003646273.
- Levorato, G., Costantini, I., and Santini, H.R. (2026). Hold the line: European adaptation(s) in a competitive conflict management and resolution market. European Security. doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2026.2634875
- Levorato, G., and Donelli, F. (2026). Conflict Management from Below: Insights from Somali Clan Militias and Colombian Indigenous Security Initiatives. Ethnopolitics. doi.org/10.1080/17449057.2026.2620950.
- Levorato, G., and Donelli, F. (2025). Go with the Flow. The Fluid Nature of African Security Governance: Interpreting Security Regime Configuration(s) in CAR, Burkina Faso, and DRC. Cambridge Review of International Affairs. DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2025.2518128.
- Levorato, G., and Donelli, F. (2024). Chronicles of African Engagement: Beyond a Dualist Reading of Foreign Intervention. African Solutions (AfSOL) Journal. https://bit.ly/4fSJNb4.
- Levorato, G. and Donelli, F. (2024). Undoing the Liberal versus Illiberal Peacebuilding Dichotomy. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2023.2295321.
- Levorato, G. and Ghilarducci, D. (2023). The Rise and Fall of Diplomacy from Below: The Rebel Cooperation of Ya Basta! Global Society, DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2023.2285863.
- Levorato, G. and Sguazzini, M. (2023). A Perpetual (Liberal) Peace? An Empirical Assessment of an Enduring Peacebuilding Model. International Peacekeeping, DOI: 10.1080/13533312.2023.2255523.
- Levorato, G. (2023). Adaptation or paradigm shift? An interpretation of resilience through the lens of policy change, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101325.
- Levorato, G (2022). Changing paradigm? Policy change and peacebuilding, drivers and inhibitors along the three orders of policy change, Quaderni di Scienza Politica, DOI: 10.48271/103996.