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García Pinzón, Dr. Viviana

Position at ABI:
Senior Researcher
E-mail:
viviana.garcia.pinzon [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de
Phone:
+49 761 88878 45
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/vivigarciap
Areas of research:
Conflict studies, local governance, urban violence and peace, security and borderlands, illegal markets, criminal governance
Regional focus:
Latin America, emphasis on Colombia and El Salvador
Education:
2016 - 2022
Ph.D. Political Science (summa cum laude)
Main focus: Peace and Conflict Studies
University of Marburg, Germany
Local Order, Violence and Ways of Governance in Peripheral Cities in Colombia and El Salvador
2008 - 2011
M.A. in Political Science (Highest distinction)
University of Chile
2010
Empirical research and methods
University of Salamanca, Spain
2002 - 2006
B.A. in Political Science
National University of Colombia
Professional experience:
03/2021 –03/2022
GIGA Institute for Latin American Studies
Researcher
Project COVID-19 and the Dynamics of (Post-)War Violence: Lessons from Colombia and Syria
10/2016 – 02/2022
GIGA Doctoral Programme
Doctoral Researcher
Since 2019
Lecturer (Lehraufträge) at Hamburg University
2013-2016
Lecturer at La Salle University, Bogotá
2013-2016
Centre for Research on Peace Dialogue, National University of Colombia
Research Fellow
2012-2015
National Academy for Strategic and Political Studies of Chile ANEPE and Fund for Science and Technology of the Republic of Chile, FONDECYT
Co-researcher
Project Governance, security and development in Chile’s North and South Extreme zones
2010-2011
Advanced Studies Institute IDEA, University of Santiago of Chile USACH
Research Assistant
Additional information:

Projects

Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace & Conflict, BMBF, 2022-2026.

COVID-19 and the Dynamics of (Post-)War Violence: Lessons from Colombia and Syria, Volkswagen Foundation & GIGA, 2020-2021

Governance, security and development in Chile’s North and South Extreme zones (Principal investigator Dr. Loreto Correa Vera), Fund for Science and Technology of the Republic of Chile, FONDECYT, 2012-2015

 

Networks

Network of women working on security and defence issues in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)- Red Amassuru

Red de Politólogas

 

Selected Publications:

García Pinzón, V., & Trejos, L.F. (2021). Las tramas del conflicto prolongado en la frontera colombo-venezolana: un análisis de las violencias y actores armados en el contexto del posacuerdo de paz. Colombia Internacional, no. 105 (2021): 89-115.

García Pinzón, V. & Mantilla, J. (2021). Contested borders: organized crime, governance, and bordering practices in Colombia-Venezuela borderlands. Trends Organ Crim 24, 265–281.

Trejos, L.F., Tuirán, Á., Rodríguez, A. & García Pinzón, V. (2021). Debilidad institucional, seguridad y migración en la frontera Colombo-Venezolana. Barranquilla: Universidad del Norte.

García Pinzón, V. y Rojas Ospina, E. (2020). La política de seguridad en El Salvador: la construcción del enemigo y sus efectos en la violencia y el orden social. Revista de Estudios Sociales 73 (2020): 96-108. https://doi.org/10.7440/res73.2020.08

García Pinzón, V. (2018). Dimensiones locales de la seguridad y la cooperación transfronteriza en la frontera amazónica de Brasil, Colombia y Perú. OPERA 23, 59-80. 

García Pinzón, V. (2018). “Elecciones, posacuerdo y transición en Colombia”. Sección El gran ciclo electoral latinoamericano. Iberoamericana 69, XVII, pp. 243-248.

Vargas, A. & García Pinzón, V. (Ed.) (2015). “Seguridad y defensa en la transición de la guerra a la paz: Reflexiones y perspectivas”. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

García Pinzón, V. (2015). Cooperación y seguridad en la guerra contra las drogas: El Plan Colombia y la Iniciativa Mérida. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

 

Reports & online articles

García Pinzón, V. (2021). “Colombia’s Partial Peace and Its Discontents”. BTI Blog https://blog.bti-project.org/2021/12/14/colombias-partial-peace-and-its-discontents/

García Pinzón, V. (2020). “From firm hand to handshake: violence and negotiated governance in El Salvador”. LSE Latin America and Caribbean. Online https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/latamcaribbean/2020/07/14/from-firm-hand-to-handshake-violence-and-negotiated-governance-in-el-salvador/

García Pinzón, V. (2020). “Colombia: Between the Dividends of Peace and the Shadow of Violence”. GIGA Focus Latin America 2. Online: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publication/colombia-between-the-dividends-of-peace-and-the-shadow-of-violence