Giacomo Cuscuná

Doctoral student

About Giacomo

Engelsk beskrivning om dig själv: Giacomo Cuscunà is a PhD student in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University. He has contributed to the ODIHR Ukraine Monitoring Initiative and served with the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, as well as with the UNHCR and several non-governmental organisations in Ukraine, Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Italy.

Giacomo holds a master’s degree in Global Studies from the University of Gothenburg and one in International and Diplomatic Studies from the University of Trieste, where he also completed his undergraduate studies.

His research interests include armed conflicts, humanitarian affairs, international humanitarian law, and human rights. His current research, "Aid and Defend: (in)Compatibilities and Complementarities between Aid Initiatives Engaged in Total/Comprehensive Defence and Humanitarian Organisations amid Armed Conflict," aims to explore the relational dynamics and the degree of (in)compatibility or complementarity between humanitarian actors and organisations or civil society initiatives providing aid to civilians while simultaneously contributing to the military defence of a party to the conflict, in Ukraine.