Viviana García Pinzón

Can Europe come to terms with its colonial past? - Rewriting peace and conflict Over the last few years, several European powers and actors have increasingly engaged with political acts of remembering colonial violence, wars, and crimes committed in Africa in their name. Among ot...

You can now find a selection of the zines my students made in our course 'Can Europe come to terms with its colonial past?'

Many thanks to @vivigarciap.bsky.social, Miriam Bartelmann & Su Gökyokuş (@abi-freiburg.bsky.social) for putting it together!

rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/2025/07/14/c...

📄💡 Movilización, Resistencias y Memoria Popular!

Una publicación que nace del intercambio entre movimientos sociales de Santiago de Chile y Cali e investigadores @vivigarciap.bsky.social y @fabriciorodriguez.bsky.social del ABI.

🔗 Descárgable aquí: rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/2025/04/22/r...

GYA warmly welcomes new members 2025! - Global Young Academy GYA warmly welcomes new members 2025! -

I’m happy to share that I have been selected as a member of the Global Young Academy (GYA)! 🥳

This year, the GYA welcomed 45 new members from 32 countries, and I'm honored to be part of this group.

globalyoungacademy.net/welcome-new-...

VIDEO - Dr. Viviana García Pinzón on Trump's Foreign Policy in Latin America

🔎 Petro’s Rejection of Trump’s Deportation Policy

In an interview with Security in Context,
@vivigarciap.bsky.social provides an insightful analysis of Trump’s #ForeignPolicy in #LatinAmerica for the case of Colombia.

⏩ Watch the interview here: www.securityincontext.com/posts/video-...

Sumak Kawsay - Rewriting peace and conflict Nonviolent actions that advocate for new rights and challenge dominant discourses and practices of progress and development disrupt the colonialities of power, knowledge and being. These forms of resi...

The entry titled "Sumak Kawsay. A decolonial perspective on nonviolent resistance" can be accesed in English & Spanish rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/2025/02/20/s....

Our Virtual Encylopedia (rewritingpeaceandconflict.net) keeps growing! We are deligthed to announce the publication of the first entry result from our joint call for contributions with the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO).

This article inaugurates “Interventions”, a new section of the Virtual Encyclopedia (rewritingpeaceandconflict.net) dedicated to contributions that engage with ongoing developments and debates in (geo-)politics, academia, and the practices and processes of peace and conflict.

https://rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/2025/02/06/against-simplification/

Current debates are characterized by a simplification, if not outright distortion, of decolonial and postcolonial perspectives. In this article, @anikaoettler.bsky.social reviews intersecting arguments at the core of both approaches and reflects on their contributions to PACS. shorturl.at/RxwYN

Whenever I watched WWII documentaries, I always found myself puzzled and questioning the complicity and the audacity of Hitler's making public speeches with such hate. Now, watching T*mp and his fellow devil, I am still in the same state of questioning. Maybe it is true that time is an illusion.

A short analysis on Central America's security policies, originally written for the BTI Blog and republised by the Global Policy Blog: www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/02/01/2...

Shaping the peaceful city: (post)colonial and transnational entanglements of security governance and spatial economic restructuring in urban Colombia This contribution examines the impact of transnational actors, policies, and discourses on the dynamics of urban renewal and governance in Colombia’s conflict-ridden cities. Emphasizing local and g...

Before the year ends, I would like to share this article I co-authored with @alkejenss.bsky.social. We explore the links between urban development and planning programs and structural conditions of violence in two Colombian cities: Santa Marta and Pereira.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We have released the 3rd episode of our podcast series “Confronting Hierarchies – A Podcast on (De)Coloniality, Peace & Conflict”!
For this episode, our hosts @vivigarciap.bsky.social and @fabriciorodriguez.bsky.social invited Prof Swati Parashar and @agarwalamya.bsky.social.

We aim to feature different forms of knowledge and expression. For example, this art piece by
(Un)Stitching Gazes/(Des)tejiendo Miradas. They generously allow us to use their political embroidery to illustrate some of the concepts.

The Virtual Encyclopaedia at a glance:

The Virtual Encyclopaedia at a glance:

The Encyclopaedia is an evolving compilation of analysis and reflections on theory, research, and practice in peace and conflict studies. It aims to provide diverse tools to critically approach peace and conflict from the lenses of postcolonial theory and decolonial thought.

The Encyclopaedia is an evolving compilation of analysis and reflections on theory, research, and practice in peace and conflict studies. It aims to provide diverse tools to critically approach peace and conflict from the lenses of postcolonial theory and decolonial thought.

Our virtual Encyclopaedia is online! 📣📣📣
On our website rewritingpeaceandconflict.net you can discover our texts and podcasts.
@postcolh.bsky.social @fabriciorodriguez.bsky.social @alkejenss.bsky.social @anikaoettler.bsky.social @teraqerat.bsky.social @sidtrip.bsky.social @manuelaboatca.bsky.social

It's today!!! Stay tuned to this space. I will be sharing exciting news from one of the flagship projects of the network Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace & Conflict with you during the day🥳🥳🥳