Lina del Castillo is Assistant Professor of History and Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She has been a Visting Scholar and fellow at different Universities in the US, Latin America, and Europe. Her current book project examines the history and international significance of territorial state formation in Colombia during the…
Ms Maldonado is a Colombian lawyer with wide experience of developing and managing legal initiatives in Latin American countries and providing legal assistance and consultation of human rights groups and victims of human rights abuses across the Americas. For example, she has collaborated with the Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts (Oxford University…
Sean Loughna is a political economist with experience working on a range of forced migration issues within the UN, academia and NGOs. His PhD thesis examines the political economy of internal displacement in Colombia and he has spent some 15 years examining issues related to conflict, displacement and socioeconomic issues in the country. Sean spent…
Professor Gilbert is Professor Emeritus at University College London. He has published extensively on housing, poverty, employment and urban problems in developing countries and particularly those in Latin America. He also acts as adviser to various international agencies. Over the last ten years, he has completed numerous expert reports for use in Colombian immigration cases…
Andreas E. Feldmann is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Catholic University in Santiago de Chile. His research specializes in International Relations with a focus on political violence and terrorism; population uprooting and human rights, and international cooperation. His most recent work has appeared in Latin American Politics and…
Jennifer Schirmer holds a PhD. in Anthropology and is Research Professor and Projects Director of Conflict Analysis, Armed Actors and Peace Dialogues at the Centre for Development and the Environment at the University of Oslo. Between 1996 and 2004, she was a fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, the School of Public Health,…
Dr Brown is a Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies at Bristol University. He has researched Colombia and Venezuela since 2000, with a particular interest in relations between military and paramilitary forces, and between guerrilla groups, civilians and the state. He also focuses on foreign involvement in internal conflicts. He is prepared to discuss writing…
AIMS: it aims at coordinating, managing and executing social action programmes, policies and projects directed to poor and vulnerable people and development projects, by coordinating and promoting national and international, technical and financial, cooperation to reach economic and social development in Colombia, mainly Colombians affected by violence and in conditions of vulnerability. It is a…
The LMD strive for recognition of refugee status for women and communities that have been forcibly displaced from the border areas. They work to ensure justice, reparation and effective compensation, secure return to those displaced women deciding to do so, as well as resettlement of displaced women when relocated. Advocate for the Colombian state’s fulfilment…