As an academic, Luis had extensive experience working with different institutions in Spain:
Universidad Carlos III,
Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales,
IE School of International Relations,
Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internationals. He significantly contributed to the literature on
international law,
human rights,
humanitarian law,
forced migration,
refugee and migration law and
peacebuilding. As a legal and policy analyst, he worked principally on forced migration derived from generalised violence and conflict, as well as on the
Responsibility to Protect with particular emphasis on the relationship between security and human rights. As a facilitator, he participated in confidence-building processes in
Abkhazia,
Georgia (with Antje Herrberg) as well as between
Colombia and
Venezuela. He significantly contributed to the set-up of a mechanism for monitoring the
Colombian peace process, and worked on international proposals for the settlement of the
Western Sahara conflict. In
Tunisia and
Egypt, he has been involved in supporting local actors in creating transitional justice mechanisms and facilitating
democratization processes. He has been particularly involved in the design of comprehensive international responses to conflict situations in
Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Syria,
Libya, and
Afghanistan, where he was a member of the Initial Assessment Team established by the
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the NATO-led security mission in Afghanistan. He was part of academic and policy networks of global outreach, such as the Editorial Board of the Refugee Law Reader, the Global Research Group (GG10), and the Task Force on the Role of the EU in the Prevention of Mass Atrocities. In the same period he engaged with
FRIDE, contributing to the set-up of the Global Governance Programme, and was Director of the Conflict Resolution and Crisis Management Program at the International Center of Toledo for Peace (CITpax). He also coordinated the ESPAS Pilot Project launched by EU Parliament, Commission and Council to create capacity for identifying global trends and challenges. Between 2013 and 2014 Luis worked as a Principal Analyst in Knowledge Development with the Center for Crisis Management and Global Operations (CCOMC) at SHAPE,
NATO. In his role as Senior Analyst of Global and Strategic Affairs, Peral participated in UN Security Council
Arria-formula meetings regarding the protection of civilians in armed conflict. A year later, while still working with
Club de Madrid, he decided to engage once again the academic field and joined the
IE School of International Relations and the
Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internationals to teach “
Forced Migration”,
“International Law”, “European Security Policy” and “The Future of Democracy: Trends and Risks”. In 2016, Luis Peral joined
Fundación DARA Internacional as Project Manager to design and establish the Refugee Response Index (RRI) to monitor countries’ response to refugees in order to improve relevant national and international action. In his latest years, apart from significantly contributing to the development of the RRI, he collaborated with esglobal as an analyst and was designated Director of The Future of Syria Project launched by mediatEUr, in which capacity he travelled to Jordan and Lebanon to conduct group discussions with Syrian refugees on the future of their country. == Publications ==