Fabio Carbone is a Lecturer in International Tourism Management at Coventry University, and associate researcher at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (Coventry University, UK). His research focuses mainly on the relations between cultural heritage management and tourism for the promotion of intercultural dialogue, global understanding and peace. He is Ambassador-at-large of the International Institute for Peace through Tourism (IIPT), and IIPT Special Envoy to Iran, where he founded the IIPT-Iran Chapter. His strong humanistic background is complemented by studies in the field of management and tourism development (PhD, University of Aveiro) and others such as International Relations & Cultural Diplomacy (Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, Berlin); Religion, Conflict and Peace; Humanitarian Response to Conflict and Disaster and Environmental Security; Sustaining Peace (EdX, Harvard University). Author of several academic and non-academic articles, he is also a practitioner and member of several boards and scientific committees worldwide. He belongs to the international UN Volunteers database, to serve in UN missions of Humanitarian Assistance and UN peacekeeping operation.