Specialization: Buddhism, religion and peace, identity and memory, Italy-Japan comparative research

PhD student in Peace Studies (Identity, Memory, Religions, and Peace curriculum) at Sapienza University of Rome.

My research focuses on the relationship between religion, identity, memory, and peace, with a particular interest in Buddhism and its contemporary expressions. My academic background includes a Master's degree in Religions, Cultures, and History from Roma Tre University and I was awarded a full scholarship for the first-level Master's in Religious Sciences and Intercultural Mediation from the University of Turin, where I conducted ethnographic research on Buddhist and Hindu communities in Italy. Building on this experience, my doctoral project, “Buddhism in Italy: Narratives, Practices, and Symbols of Peace”, adopts a comparative perspective between Italy and Japan to investigate how Buddhist traditions and Japanese new religious movements articulate and practice peace, nonviolence, and reconciliation. It explores how religious narratives are received and reinterpreted in different cultural contexts, shaping community identities, collective memories, and local understandings of peaceful coexistence.