A Colombian political scientist with an interest in issues of conflict, security and development. My research focus has taken my work to the study of the postconflict reconstruction processes of Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina, looking at the process of international intervention in peace and statebuilding and transitional justice. I have developed through my research an ethnographic and visual approach to the study of reconciliation as a practice and experience in post-war settings Supervisors: Dr Nicolas Lemay-Hebert and Dr Laurence Cooley
Journal of intervention and statebuilding, Feb 26, 2024
There is abundant criticism towards mainstream transitional justice (TJ) scholarship and practice... more There is abundant criticism towards mainstream transitional justice (TJ) scholarship and practice. As an alternative, we propose an everyday transformative gender justice framework that brings socioeconomic, transformative gender, and the everyday to the centre of TJ. Using empirical data gathered in Colombia we make two arguments. First, women-led activism privileges an everyday, localised, transformative, and gender transformative understanding of TJ. Second, they interact with local, national, and international actors, which enhances their transformative potential to disrupt broader peace and justice circuits. Our findings suggest that part of the transformative potential of TJ lies in the work of localised emancipatory initiatives.
There is abundant criticism towards mainstream transitional justice
(TJ) scholarship and practice... more There is abundant criticism towards mainstream transitional justice (TJ) scholarship and practice. As an alternative, we propose an everyday transformative gender justice framework that brings socioeconomic, transformative gender, and the everyday to the centre of TJ. Using empirical data gathered in Colombia we make two arguments. First, women-led activism privileges an everyday, localised, transformative, and gender transformative understanding of TJ. Second, they interact with local, national, and international actors, which enhances their transformative potential to disrupt broader peace and justice circuits. Our findings suggest that part of the transformative potential of TJ lies in the work of localised emancipatory initiatives.
Bosnia and Herzegovina: The challenges and complexities of transitional justice, 2018
The signing of the peace agreements between the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejérc... more The signing of the peace agreements between the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP) and the Colombian Government in late November 2016 has generated new prospects for peace in Colombia, opening up the possibility of redressing the harm inflicted on Colombians by Colombians. Talking about peace and transitional justice requires us to think about how to operationalize peace agreements to promote justice and peaceful coexistence. This volume brings together reflections by Colombian academics and practitioners alongside pieces provided by researchers and practitioners in other countries where transitional justice initiatives have taken place (notably Bosnia and Herzegovina, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Peru). This volume has been written in the south, by the south, for the south. The book engages with the challenges that lie ahead for future generations of Colombians. Rivers of ink have dealt with the end goals of transitional justice, but victims require us to take the quest for human rights beyond the normative realm of theorizing justice and into the practical realm of engaging how to implement justice initiatives. The tension between theory-the legislative frameworks guaranteeing human rights-and practice-the realization of these ideas-will frame Colombia's success (or failure) in consolidating the implementation of the peace agreements with the FARC-EP.
The article discusses shifts in transitional justice approaches in transitional justice approache... more The article discusses shifts in transitional justice approaches in transitional justice approaches by comparing the Bosnian experience of justice agreements and practices with the current Colombian framing of transitional justice agreements within the context of the ongoing peace process between the FARC-EP and the Colombian government. The transitional justice framework for a post–agreement transition in Colombia can be analysed through the lenses of different questions: Is the objective of this framework to ensure justice? Or is the goal of transitional Justice reconciliation? Are the transitional justice agreements informed by retributive or reparative understandings of justice? Is local justice more important than international justice? To discuss the answers to these questions, the article compares the peace building experience of Bosnia-Herzegovina with the current Colombian peace process, particularly in regard to the transitional justice framework agreed upon in these proces...
Journal of intervention and statebuilding, Feb 26, 2024
There is abundant criticism towards mainstream transitional justice (TJ) scholarship and practice... more There is abundant criticism towards mainstream transitional justice (TJ) scholarship and practice. As an alternative, we propose an everyday transformative gender justice framework that brings socioeconomic, transformative gender, and the everyday to the centre of TJ. Using empirical data gathered in Colombia we make two arguments. First, women-led activism privileges an everyday, localised, transformative, and gender transformative understanding of TJ. Second, they interact with local, national, and international actors, which enhances their transformative potential to disrupt broader peace and justice circuits. Our findings suggest that part of the transformative potential of TJ lies in the work of localised emancipatory initiatives.
There is abundant criticism towards mainstream transitional justice
(TJ) scholarship and practice... more There is abundant criticism towards mainstream transitional justice (TJ) scholarship and practice. As an alternative, we propose an everyday transformative gender justice framework that brings socioeconomic, transformative gender, and the everyday to the centre of TJ. Using empirical data gathered in Colombia we make two arguments. First, women-led activism privileges an everyday, localised, transformative, and gender transformative understanding of TJ. Second, they interact with local, national, and international actors, which enhances their transformative potential to disrupt broader peace and justice circuits. Our findings suggest that part of the transformative potential of TJ lies in the work of localised emancipatory initiatives.
Bosnia and Herzegovina: The challenges and complexities of transitional justice, 2018
The signing of the peace agreements between the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejérc... more The signing of the peace agreements between the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP) and the Colombian Government in late November 2016 has generated new prospects for peace in Colombia, opening up the possibility of redressing the harm inflicted on Colombians by Colombians. Talking about peace and transitional justice requires us to think about how to operationalize peace agreements to promote justice and peaceful coexistence. This volume brings together reflections by Colombian academics and practitioners alongside pieces provided by researchers and practitioners in other countries where transitional justice initiatives have taken place (notably Bosnia and Herzegovina, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Peru). This volume has been written in the south, by the south, for the south. The book engages with the challenges that lie ahead for future generations of Colombians. Rivers of ink have dealt with the end goals of transitional justice, but victims require us to take the quest for human rights beyond the normative realm of theorizing justice and into the practical realm of engaging how to implement justice initiatives. The tension between theory-the legislative frameworks guaranteeing human rights-and practice-the realization of these ideas-will frame Colombia's success (or failure) in consolidating the implementation of the peace agreements with the FARC-EP.
The article discusses shifts in transitional justice approaches in transitional justice approache... more The article discusses shifts in transitional justice approaches in transitional justice approaches by comparing the Bosnian experience of justice agreements and practices with the current Colombian framing of transitional justice agreements within the context of the ongoing peace process between the FARC-EP and the Colombian government. The transitional justice framework for a post–agreement transition in Colombia can be analysed through the lenses of different questions: Is the objective of this framework to ensure justice? Or is the goal of transitional Justice reconciliation? Are the transitional justice agreements informed by retributive or reparative understandings of justice? Is local justice more important than international justice? To discuss the answers to these questions, the article compares the peace building experience of Bosnia-Herzegovina with the current Colombian peace process, particularly in regard to the transitional justice framework agreed upon in these proces...
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(TJ) scholarship and practice. As an alternative, we propose an
everyday transformative gender justice framework that brings
socioeconomic, transformative gender, and the everyday to the
centre of TJ. Using empirical data gathered in Colombia we make
two arguments. First, women-led activism privileges an everyday,
localised, transformative, and gender transformative
understanding of TJ. Second, they interact with local, national,
and international actors, which enhances their transformative
potential to disrupt broader peace and justice circuits. Our
findings suggest that part of the transformative potential of TJ
lies in the work of localised emancipatory initiatives.
(TJ) scholarship and practice. As an alternative, we propose an
everyday transformative gender justice framework that brings
socioeconomic, transformative gender, and the everyday to the
centre of TJ. Using empirical data gathered in Colombia we make
two arguments. First, women-led activism privileges an everyday,
localised, transformative, and gender transformative
understanding of TJ. Second, they interact with local, national,
and international actors, which enhances their transformative
potential to disrupt broader peace and justice circuits. Our
findings suggest that part of the transformative potential of TJ
lies in the work of localised emancipatory initiatives.