Daniela Suárez Vargas

3/3 The policy paper draws on 23 semistructured interviews, plus a roundtable with key stakeholders in Colombia 🇨🇴

2/3 The policy paper highlights both the progress and the challenges in recognising fighters who experienced GBV within armed groups as victims, offering valuable lessons for developing more inclusive and intersectional approaches to #Victimhood and #GBV in global #TransitionalJustice contexts

(PDF) Rethinking Victimhood: Insights from Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) on Gender-Based Violence within Armed Groups [Policy Paper] PDF | This policy paper examines the advances and limitations of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace’s (JEP) efforts to recognise fighters who were... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

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📢 New Policy Paper! I’m delighted to share my latest policy paper: “Rethinking Victimhood: Insights from Colombia’s JEP on Gender-Based Violence within Armed Groups”💡

📄 Read it here:
🔗 🇬🇧 English: tinyurl.com/yck7vf9k
🔗 🇪🇸 Spanish: tinyurl.com/496syaeb

Last week, @aislingswaine.bsky.social shared about our @erc.europa.eu project's novel contributions to studying gender-based violence through the phenomenon of ‘coercive control’. Check out the recording now!

Thank you @danielasuarezv.bsky.social and Queen's University Belfast for hosting!

YouTube video by QUB School of Law Behind the Lines: Gender-Based Violence Within Armed Groups & the Politics of Victimhood in Colombia

🎥 The recording is now available!

If you missed “Behind the Lines: Gender-Based Violence Within Armed Groups and the Politics of Victimhood in Colombia & Northern Ireland”, watch the discussion here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgqt...

🚨 What happens when #GenderbasedViolence occurs within armed groups and not only against civilians? Join us to examine how #TransitionalJustice processes recognise and respond to this often-overlooked violence.

🗓️ 22 Oct, 2–5 pm BST
📍QUB Moot Court & Online
🔗 Register & info: tinyurl.com/3re4nsj5

🚨 What happens when #GenderbasedViolence occurs within armed groups and not only against civilians? Join us to examine how #TransitionalJustice processes recognise and respond to this often-overlooked violence.

🗓️ 22 Oct, 2–5 pm BST
📍QUB Moot Court & Online
🔗 Register & info: tinyurl.com/3re4nsj5

Had a great time at #BISA2025 @mybisa.bsky.social yesterday!

Loved sharing a roundtable with Diana Ortega, @itseeefa.bsky.social & Dr Claire Wright on GBV, organised crime & transitional justice in Colombia, Mexico & Northern Ireland 🇨🇴🇲🇽☘️

Always a joy to work with such smart colleagues & friends🫰🏼

Spoke today at the #NarrativeCriminology Symposium at Swansea University, sharing work from my ESRC postdoc on the subversive victim, SGBV inside illegal armed groups and competing narratives of victimhood in Colombia's transitional justice. Grateful for the feedback… and the beach walk after 🌊☀️

Transitional justice and other-than-human harm: lessons from Colombia Armed conflicts destroy human lives and livelihoods, wildlife, landscapes and the webs of relationships between these phenomena. Yet, transitional justice practice has remained predominantly anthro...

Pleased to share this new publication with Libby Newton, in which we explore the Colombian JEP's innovative recognition of territories as victims of the Colombian conflict www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We had a productive #ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow Development Programme policy challenge workshop in Birmingham!

Our interdisciplinary team representing four universities @jessanderson61.bsky.social @danielasuarezv.bsky.social @vpmlister.bsky.social tackled the needs of homeless domestic abuse victims.

Vacancy: Three Funded PhD Positions in the Field of Transitional Justice – Justice Visions We are seeking to hire three fully funded PhD researchers as part of the new ERC project “Innovation and documentation. Reconstructing the paradigm of transitional justice from the ground up”. . We ar...

Prof. Tine Destrooper (Ghent Uni) is recruiting three PhD researchers: Three Funded PhD Positions in the Field of #TransitionalJustice
“Innovation and documentation. Reconstructing the paradigm of transitional justice from the ground up”. justicevisions.org/vacancy-thre... @atlaswomen.bsky.social

Trump vs. USAID: el fin de la cooperación internacional como la conocíamos El hilo · Episode

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If you speak Spanish, El Hilo has a great episode on USAID's closure and its impact on international cooperation in LatAm. It covers US-LatAm relations, USAID's bias in democracy promotion and support in the region, and how the closure contradicts Trump's "USA First" policy.

@qubcriminology.bsky.social
the QUB ICCJ Annual Lecture is going to be delivered by Prof Maximo Sozzo (University of Santa Fe, Argentina)

“Punishment and Authoritarianism in Latin America: a palimsepstic perspective”

6th March, 4 pm in the Great Hall

sign up here: shorturl.at/IodBC

Still time to apply for these great collaborative studentships with hugely supportive supervisory teams

Hybrid Investigatory Mechanisms and Other Hybrid Justice Initiatives AbstractHybrid tribunals have not generally been used in Latin America, with ordinary domestic criminal courts favoured to provide accountability in transi

#NewBookAlert: Two decades ago, it was believed that hybrid courts would vanish with the ICC's creation. Instead, they have multiplied. Kirsten Ainley & Mark Kersten's new book examines their impact. I contributed a chapter on hybrid investigative mechanisms academic.oup.com/book/59279/c...

My book, The Figure of the Witness in International Criminal Tribunals Memory, Atrocities and Transitional Justice, is now available in paperback - tinyurl.com/wzcjestp

Armed Groups and International Law - Book Symposium “Reparations by Non-State Armed Groups”: Operationalising the Duty of NSAG to Provide Reparations: Reflections from Colombia For decades, Colombia has faced an ongoing series of armed conflicts involving a diverse range of non-official armed actors. The legal and public policy landscape of the Colombian state has had to …

The editors of the Armed Groups and International Law blog kindly invited me to participate in a symposium on the book “Reparations by Non-State Armed Groups Under International Law” by Dr. Olivia Herman. Here is my contribution: www.armedgroups-internationallaw.org/2025/01/27/b...

excerpt from the blog

The Morrigan - @joytwemlow.bsky.social, Belén Mattos-Castaneda @danielasuarezv.bsky.social, @anuragdeb.bsky.social & Bethany McShepherd write about their amazing #Barbie workshop

Excellent 2 days - thoughtful, #feminist & the craic!

#LegalFeminism #Utopias #Manifestos

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Narrating the Consequences of Conflict: Death, Survival and the ‘Autobiographical Turn’ in the Criminology of War Abstract. Locating itself within narrative criminological scholarship and the criminology of war literature, this article critically examines how the theme

Our brilliant colleague Kevin Hearty on the autobiographical turn in the criminolgy of war 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽https://academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/bjc/azae099/7953326

Here it is! Delighted to round off 2024 with publication of my new book ‘Constructing Victimhood: Beyond Innocence and Guilt in Transitional Justice’. Available online now.

Huge thanks to all the direct and indirect contributors who shaped the final book

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We compiled a starting kit of international organizations, NGOs and associations in the field of international justice and human rights to follow for justice-related news. 👇
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Rethinking international legal education in Latin America* | 9 | Explo This chapter by REDIAL (Rethinking International Legal Education in Latin America) aims at opening spaces to reconsider the practices of teaching and

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Rethinking International Legal Education in Latin America: Reflections toward a Global Dialogue Paola Andrea Acosta Alvarado, Amaya Álvez Marín, Laura Betancur-Restrepo, Fabia Veçoso & Daniel Rivas-Ramírez reflect on the practice of teaching international law in the specific academic set…

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Hi Marieke, you might find the work of LatAm scholars working on TWAIL insightful. Scholars like Luis Eslava, René Urueña, Laura Betancur Restrepo or Daniel Quiroga come to mind. There are certainly others as well but they could be a good starting point

I’m working on a starter pack for those interested in WPS. I’m struggling with the search function on Blue Sky. Please let me know if you’d like to be added.

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