Mehmet Yavuz

Title: Contract Academic Staff
Office: 3C65
Building: Centennial Hall
Email: m.yavuz@uwinnipeg.ca

Degrees:

MA University of Massachusetts Lowell (Peace and Conflict Studies)

Biography:

Mehmet Yavuz is a doctoral candidate (ABD) in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manitoba. Mehmet has been the recipient of prestigious fellowships and awards including the Berdie & Irvin Award in Peace and Conflict Studies and the 2021-2022 Rabbi Michael Melchior Peace and Conflict Studies Fellowship in Peace and Conflict Studies at the Arthur V. Mauro Institute for Peace and Justice, St. Paul’s College, University of Manitoba.

Mehmet’s doctoral research investigates queer people’s perceptions and experiences of peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the political queer presence after the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement. These experiences deal with political institutions including police and LGBTQIA+ relationships, government, healthcare, and schools.

Courses:

CJ-1002 Introduction to Criminal Justice
SOC-1100 Introduction to Sociology
SOC-3128 Sociology of Sexuality

Research Interests:

Mehmet Yavuz's research and teaching interests include peacebuilding, social justice, conflict transformation, 2SLGBTQIA+, post-peace-accord societies, queer theory, ethnic conflict, im/migration, 2SLGBTQIA+ and police relationships, media and peacebuilding, social movements, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Cyprus, and Turkey.

Publications:

Mehmet Yavuz. (Forthcoming). The Rise of the "Penguin Media", Censorship, Resistance, and Peace Journalism: Turkey's Media Policies between 2002 and 2020. Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies.

Mehmet Yavuz, Kelly Gorkoff, Nadine Bartlett, Natassia D’Sena and Rebeca Heringer. (2022). “Train up peers, use their experience, whatever your life experience is”: Community Mobilization, Peacebuilding, and the Local Turn. Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research.11: 11-44.

Mehmet Yavuz and Sean Byrne. (2021). Violence against the Queer community in Turkey; Implications for peacebuilding and social justice.Journal for Peace & Justice Studies,30(1): 102-125. https://doi.org/10.5840/peacejustice2021301/26

Kelly Gorkoff, Nadine Bartlett, Mehmet Yavuz, Rebeca Herringer, and Natassia D’Sena (2021). Networked Architectures of Crime Prevention: Community Mobilization in Manitoba. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice. 63(3-4): 89-111. https://doi.org/10.3138/cjccj.2021-0008

Public Scholarship:

Mary Jean Hande, Leah Nicholson, Mehmet Yavuz, Diwa Marcelino and Susan Rodriguez. (2022). Migrant home care workers in Manitoba: An invisible and critically underserved pillar of Manitoba’s pandemic response. Carework Network Response.

Mary Jean Hande, Diwa Marcelino, Susan Rodriguez and Mehmet Yavuz. (2021). Migrant care work and the geopolitics of ‘aging in place.’Ethnorama News Winnipeg.3(9): 14-15.