Raul Caruso
Fellow
Raul Caruso, educated in Naples (MA), Leuven (Msc) and Milan (PhD), is currently affiliated at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) where he is a professor of Peace Economics, International Economics and Economics of Crime. He is serving as Director of CESPIC (European Centre of Peace Science Integration and Cooperation) at the Catholic University “Our Lady of Good Counsel” in Tirana. He has served as executive director of the Network of European Peace Scientists (2009–2019). He is now also serving as Director of Assobenefit, the Italian association for benefit companies. He is editor-in-chief of Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy (USA) and he is also on the editorial board of Defence and Peace Economics (USA), the Economics of Peace and Security Journal (USA), and Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali (Italy). He has lectured at MIT (USA), Hiroshima University (Japan), Central University of Finance and Economics of Bejing (China), Warsaw University (Poland), Kazakh Humanitarian Law University (Kazakstahn), Novosibirsk State University (Russian Federation), and American University of Cairo (Egypt) and he has been invited to give seminars in several universities in Italy and worldwide. He has been awarded the Stuart Bremer Award in 2004, the Premio Isimbardi in 2011, the Emerald Outstanding Author Contribution in 2012, the Manas Chatterji Award for Excellence in Peace Economics and Peace Science in 2014, the NEPS Medal for best publication in Peace Science and the Premio Capri in 2017.
His current research on peace and peace-related aspects is focused on military expenditures, arms trade, global prices and incentives to conflict, informal institutions and local violent conflict, the role of private sectors in establishing peace.