Full name and acronym: Centro de Investigaciones Sociales, Económicas y Políticas (CISEPA), Centre of Social, Economic and Political Research, Catholic University of Peru

 

Founding date: 1967

Objectives: The production and dissemination of high-quality, multidisciplinary scholarly and applied research, on issues related to development, poverty, regionalization and democratization.

Main projects in globalisation studies: We do not have explicit research on globalization yet, but we are adding global perspectives to the comparative studies of the region. Our main projects in this line are: (a) Inequality, Ethnicity and Human Security (Peru, Guatemala, Bolivia, Ecuador); University of Oxford- PUCP; (b) Intercultural Citizen Education for Indigenous Peoples in Latin America (Peru, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Mexico); (c) Education and Gender in Latin America (Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Peru); (d) Poverty, Well-Being and Development (Peru, Ethiopia, Thailand, Bangladesh) by University of Bath and PUCP; (d) Civil Society and Democratization in Latin America (Peru, Chile and Argentina).

Outputs: Seminars, workshops, conferences, consultancy reports: our own academic journals, articles, books, and working paper series.

Staff numbers: 36 professors and researchers from the Department of Social Science (Anthropology, Sociology, and Political Science) and the Department of Economics.

Director: Professor Juan-Marie Ansion Mallet

Funding: Ford Foundation, FAO, United Nations, AVINA, Education Office, Health Office, Research Funds of the PUCP.

Street Address: Av. Universitaria Cdra. 18 s/n San Miguel, Lima, Peru

tel: ++51 -1- 626 2000
fax: ++51 -1- 2610670
email: apanfic@pucp.edu.pe (Prof. Aldo Panfichi – Social Sciences Dept.)
website: http://www.pucp.edu.pe