Researcher
Project COVID-19 and the Dynamics of (Post-)War Violence: Lessons from Colombia and Syria
Doctoral Researcher
Research Fellow
Co-researcher
Project Governance, security and development in Chile’s North and South Extreme zones
Research Assistant
Main focus: Peace and Conflict Studies
University of Marburg, Germany
Local Order, Violence and Trajectories of Governance in Peripheral Cities in Colombia and El Salvador
University of Chile
University of Salamanca, Spain
National University of Colombia
Collaborative Research Network Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace & Conflict, BMBF, 2022-2026.
COVID-19 and the Dynamics of (Post-)War Violence: Lessons from Colombia and Syria, GIGA, funded by VW Foundation, 2020-2021.
Governance, security and development in Chile’s North and South Extreme zones (Principal investigator Dr. Loreto Correa Vera), National Academy for Strategic and Political Studies of Chile ANEPE and Fund for Science and Technology of the Republic of Chile, FONDECYT, 2012-2015.
Since 2022: Associate, Institute of Latin American Studies ILAS, German Institute for Global and Area Studies GIGA
2023-2024: Fellow, Centre for the Comparative Study of Civil War, University of York
García Pinzón, V. (2025). Sovereignty and Local Governance in Violence-Affected Cities of Latin America. In E. Biscotti & J.W. Matlack (Eds.) Sovereignty through Practice Multiscalarity, Reflexivity, and Interdisciplinarity. Routledge.
García Pinzón, V. (2024). Trajectories of Governance. Tracing the Entanglements of Order and Violence in Peripheral Cities of Latin America. Bristol University Press.
García Pinzón, V., Rodríguez, F. & Tripathi, S. (2024). From Decentering to (Re)centering in Peace and Conflict Studies: Contestations, Resignification and Collaborations. In S. Richter & S. Tripathi (Eds.) Handbook on Peace and Conflict Studies: Perspectives from the Global South(s). Rowman and Littlefield.
Castro Alegría, R.F. and García Pinzón, V. (2024), Peripheral Autonomy in a Multipolar Order: Latin American Reactions to the War in Ukraine. Bull Lat Am Res, 43: 315-321.
García Pinzón, V. (2023). Containing Violence in El Salvador: Community Organization, Transnational Networks and State–Society Relations. Development & Change, 54(1), 192-219.
Franco, C., Fünfgeld, A., García Pinzón, V., Klenke, J., Lohmann, R., Reder, D., & Schirmer, S. (2023). Introducing ScrumAdemia: An Agile Guide for Doctoral Research. PS: Political Science & Politics, 56(2), 251–258. doi:10.1017/S1049096522001408
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 (The entanglement of the protracted conflict on the Colombia-Venezuela borders: an analysis of the violence and the actors in the post-peace agreement context. Colombia Internacional, no. 105, 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.
García, V. (2021). Drogas y gobernanza local en Pereira (Drugs and local governance in Pereira). In Molano Cruz, G. (Ed.) América Latina en la Guerra contra las Drogas. Una mirada multidimensional a un fenómeno global. Bogotá: Iepri-Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Fescol, 197-234.
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 (Security Policy in El Salvador: The Construction of the Enemy and Its Effects on Violence and Social Order). Revista de Estudios Sociales 73 (2020): 96-108. https://doi.org/10.7440/res73.2020.08
