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Flor Yáñez has a law degree from the Autonomous University of Chihuahua (UACH), has three master's degrees: Human Rights from the (UACH) in collaboration with the National Human Rights Commission; Citizen Security by (SSP); and Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies, by the University of Bradford, Yorkshire, UK under the Rotary World Peace Fellowship, awarded to only ten people worldwide per year. He is currently studying the doctorate in Arts and Humanities Education at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, researching and developing conflict resolution programs. He did a research stay at the University for Peace created by UN resolution, located in Costa Rica in the period September-December 2019. Likewise, he did a research stay at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, San José, Costa Rich in the period October-December 2019. She obtained a scholarship to study the XXXVII Interdisciplinary Course on Human Rights taught by the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights, taught once a year with the same headquarters, referred to the most relevant course on human rights at the Latin American level.  

He has studied political science at Concordia University in Montréal, Canada and has participated in various research and professional exchanges in countries such as India, Japan, the United States, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Canada. She is co-founder and “board member” of the non-profit organization “Advocate Project” based in the United Kingdom that sponsors the international Peace Project program, present in Mexico, the United Kingdom, the United States and Germany, designed for the anticipation and intervention in the resolution of conflicts in a peaceful way. This project was reviewed by the education advisers of Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland and received an award at the UN headquarters in Geneva in 2018. She is the founder of the civil association "FYA Education for Peace and Conflict Resolution AC" dedicated to conflict resolution. He is a national and international lecturer, participating in venues such as the Scottish Parliament and ONUMUJERES and various organizations. He participated as a panelist in the first observatory of the Human Right to Peace held in the Congress of the Union in Mexico City.

She is a writer and columnist on issues of culture of peace, human rights and conflict resolution, as well as various cultural issues and is a participant in various opinion radio programs. He collaborated with Milenio with columns on human rights and peace. He has produced various exhibitions of photography and painting in the Mexican Republic and abroad, accompanied by conferences on the theme of conflict resolution and peace: "The Faces of Humanity", which compiles the faces of people in conflict situations in various countries on five continents; "Dreams of reality"; "Looks of a social reality"; "Moments of stillness" and the painting exhibition "Sobre Humano".

He has collaborated in institutions such as the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the South Pacific regional agency in Fiji, in the area of Conflict Prevention and Recovery; Dialogue Fiji, co-facilitating Democratic Dialogues, and McKenzie Friends providing assistance and representation to poor people seeking refuge and asylum in the UK. He has conducted field research in: Rwanda on the ravages of the 1994 genocide, aimed at forgiveness and reconciliation; Extraordinary Courts of the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Cambodian Center for the Protection of Children.

She was coordinator of the Human Rights Unit of the General Secretariat of the Government of Chihuahua  2017-2018. She was director of the Coordination of Advisors to the Governor from January to July 2018. She left activities to join the academy. In previous years she was a public defender in criminal, civil and family matters, incorporating mediation into her work. He has graduates in Thanatology, Logotherapy, Human Rights, Happiness, Hope and Optimism. He is currently conducting field research on migration, conflict and peace on the borders of Central America: Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico. This investigation was carried out by land.