Eduardo Álvarez-Vanegas
Candidat au doctorat en sciences politiques au Center for the Comparative Study of Civil War á l'université de York, au Royaume-Uni.
PhD candidate at the Center for the Comparative Study of Civil War at the University of York, United Kingdom
Eduardo is a doctoral candidate at the Center for the Comparative Study of Civil War at the University of York, United Kingdom. His work focuses on the fragmentation and cohesion of non-state armed organizations, peace processes, political violence, and ethnographic methods. In his doctoral dissertation, Eduardo examines the breakaway factions of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People's Army (FARC-EP) that emerged during the peace negotiations with the Colombian government in 2016. He has over 15 years of experience as a researcher and practitioner in Colombia, where he has conducted extensive fieldwork amidst two peace processes and worked for research centers, international organizations, and state institutions in the fields of security, armed conflict, criminal prosecution, DDR processes, and transitional justice. He holds a MA in socio-cultural anthropology (Columbia University, United States) and a BA in political science (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia).
Eduardo est candidat au doctorat en sciences politiques au Center for the Comparative Study of Civil War á l'université de York, au Royaume-Uni. Ses recherches portent sur la fragmentation et la cohésion des organisations armées non étatiques, les processus de paix, la violence politique et les méthodes ethnographiques. Dans sa thèse de doctorat, Eduardo examine les factions dissidentes des Forces Armées Révolutionnaires de Colombie - Armée du Peuple (FARC-EP) qui ont émergé lors des négociations de paix avec le gouvernement colombien en 2016. Il a plus de 15 ans d'expérience en tant que chercheur et praticien en Colombie, où il a mené un travail de terrain approfondi pendant deux processus de paix et a travaillé pour des centres de recherche, des organisations internationales et des institutions publiques dans les domaines de la sécurité, des conflits armés, des poursuites pénales, des processus de DDR et de la justice transitionnelle. Il est titulaire d'une maîtrise en anthropologie socioculturelle (Université de Columbia, États-Unis) et d'une licence en sciences politiques (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana à Bogotá, Colombie).
Research interests:
Civil War Studies - Guerres civiles
Non-state Armed Organization - Organisations armées non étatiques
Fragmentation and Cohesion - Fragmentation et cohésion
Counterinsurgency - Contre-insurrection
Ethnography - Ethnographie
Qualitative Methods - Méthodes qualitatives
Projects
Doctoral Researcher at the Centre for the Comparative Study of Civil War at the University of York, United Kingdom. This project is led by Professor Anastasia Shesterinina and is funded by a £1.2m UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship.
Coathor in the Edited Volume Project "Global Tensions, Local Wars? The Changing International Politics of Civil Conflict", led by Theodore McLauchlin and Marie-Joëlle Zahar at the Université of Montréal.
Publications
Refereed publications:
Book: Shesterinina, A; Álvarez-Vanegas, E; van den Berg, S; Ketola, H; Rouhana, R. Working Title: Civil War as a Social Process: Actors and Dynamics in Colombia, Lebanon, Nepal, and South Sudan. Cornell University Press (Book Proposal Under Review).
Marín, I., Álvarez-Vanegas, E., (2019). "Securing Participation and Protection in Peace Agreements: The Case of Colombia," in Davies, S., True, J. The Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace and Security. London: Oxford University Press.
Recent Nonrefered Publications
Álvarez-Vanegas, E., (2023). Life histories and the ordinary: examining fragmentation and counterinsurgency through lived experiences. Civil War Paths Notes from the Field Blog. March 2023.
Álvarez Vanegas, E., et al. (2021). Las caras de las disidencias: cinco años de incertidumbre y evolución. Bogotá: Conflict Responses Foundation (CORE).
Álvarez Vanegas, E., et.al, (2018). Trayectorias y dinámicas territoriales de las FARC: un problema en auge. Bogotá: Fundación Ideas para la Paz.
