Membership

The IOVS is composed of members joining as individuals, whose membership must be approved by the Board of Directors, and members who are legal entities (research centres, local, national and international organizations and Observatories), who must in no case be bodies under the direct control of governments or international political institutions, and whose membership must be approved by the General Meeting at the proposal of the Board of Directors. Individual members may be researchers, students, practitioners and any other person involved in the field of tackling violence in school. The members, whether individual or legal entities, must be up-to-date with payments of their annual membership fee. The status of member is lost in case of a failure to pay the membership fee, or in case of a duly ascertained breach of the code of ethics of the IOVS after submission of a report explaining the grounds for the decision to the Board of Directors. In the case of exclusion, the decision must be ratified by the General Assembly.

Board of Directors

The IOVS is managed by a Board of Directors comprising 22 members who are directly selected by the General Assembly of the members. The Board of Directors is composed of the following persons:

1. Alejandro Castro Santander, Univ. Católica Argentina, Argentina.

2. Azucena Ramos Herrera, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico.

3. Barbara Garcia Sanchez, Universidad Distrital, Bogota, Colombia.

4. Benjamin Moignard, Université Paris Est Créteil - UPEC, France.

5. Carol Hayden, University of Portsmouth, UK.

6. Catherine Blaya, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, France.

7. Claire Beaumont, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada.

8. David P. Farrington, University of Cambridge, UK

9. Egide Royer, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada.

10. Eric Debarbieux, Université Paris Est Créteil, UPEC, France.

11. Georges Steffgen, Université de Luxembourg, Luxemburg.

12. José Brito-SoaresClube Intercultural Europeu/Instituto de Apoio a Criança, Portugal.

13. Joseph Dougoudia Lompo, Univ. de Koudougou, Burkina Faso.

14. Labass Lamine Diallo, Mali.

15. Laurier Fortin, Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.

16. Maria Jesus Comellas i Carbó, Univ. Autonoma Barcelona, Spain.

17. Maryse Paquin, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada.

18. Mitsuru Taki, National Inst. for Educational Policy Research, Japan.

19. Phillip Slee, Flinders University of South Australia, Australia.

20. Rami Benbenishty, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.

21. Ron Astor, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

22. Rosario Ortega Ruiz, Universidad de Córdoba and University of Greenwich, Spain - UK.

23. Terry Carol Spitzer, Universidad Autonoma, Chapingo, Mexico.

The Board of Directors must comply with the principle of parity between men and women(between 40 and 60%). Its role is to elaborate the orientations of the Observatory, which will then be put to the vote of the General Assembly, to examine and give its approval or rejection of individual membership applications, as well as the grounds for its decision, to prepare the examination by the General Assembly of the membership applications of legal entities and to steer the political and financial management of the NGO. Members of the Board of Directors are elected for a renewable term of office of four years.


Executive Commitee

The Executive committee is composed as follows:

Chair: Professor Catherine Blaya, Ecole Supérieure du Professorat et de l’Education – Université Nice Sophia Antipolis.
Co-Chair: Professor Rosario Ortega Ruiz, Universidad de Córdoba and University of Greenwich, Spain - UK.

Vice Chair: Professor Rami Benbenishty, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Vice Chair: Professor David Farrington, University of Cambridge, UK.
Vice Chair: Terry Spitzer, Universidad Autonoma, Chapingo, Mexico.

General Secretary : Claire Beaumont, University Laval, Quebec.

Finance manager: Professor José Brito Soarès, University of Lisboa – Portugal.

Coordination: Emmanuelle Milan-Adam, ESPE, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis.

Website administrator: Michael Fartoukh, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis.