Viviana Esmeralda Garcia Pinzon

Biography

Viviana García Pinzón is Senior Researcher at the Arnold-BergstraesserInstitute (ABI) in Freiburg and Associate at the Institute for Latin American Studies at GIGA. She holds a PhD in Political Science, with a focus on peace and conflict studies, from the Philipps University of Marburg and was part of the GIGA Doctoral Programme. Her research focuses on conflict and violence, local governance, peace and security with emphasis on cities and borderlands and a regional focus on Latin America. As member of the reseach collaborative network ‘Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict’, she coordinates the conceptualisation and development of a virtual encyclopedia (rewritingpeaceandconflict.net).

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