Invited talks and presentations
Panel guest at Baruch College - Global Insights: Colombia’s Peace Process at the Crossroads, December 2019.
Talks: “La Evolución de Políticas de Drogas de Largo Plazo en América Latina” and “Narcotráfico y Política”, in Summer Course “Producción, Tráfico y Política de Drogas en América Latina”, Cesed, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia, 2019.
Session: “Drug Violence, Organized Crime and the State”, in Summer course “Armed Conflict, Peace Processes, and Challenges to Peace Building” Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. 2018 - 2019.
Talk: “Entre Paz y Corrupción: Posibilidades y Riesgos de Negociar con Grupos Criminales”, CIDE Mexico, February 2019.
UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO. Keynote Speaker “Estado, Crimen Organizado, y Narcotráfico en las Americas: Cambios, Continuidades y Desafíos”, Conferencia Evolución del Crimen Organizado Transnacional Organizado en las Americas. Colombia, November 2018.
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. “Path Dependent Trajectories of Criminal Governance: The Contrasting Cases of Cali and Medellin”. Conference Criminal Governance in the Americas.
UNIVERSIDAD AUTONÓMA DE SINALOA, Culiacán-Mexico. Keynote Speaker “Las dinámicas políticas de la violencia asociada al narcotráfico en Colombia y México” “5th Coloquio Internacional Sobre Violencia”. October 2018.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. “Colombia 2018: Implications for the Peace Process and Drug Policy” Speaker Tuesday Seminar Series.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, US-Mexico Center, and STANFORD UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES. “Between Corruption and Criminal-State Negotiations” at the workshop "Criminal and Political Violence in Mexico and Central America". May 2018.
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME. “Negotiating with Criminals”, at the Workshop New Research on Violence by Women, and “Criminality after Conflict” presented at the Peace Conflict and Violence Workshop. April 9 2018.
RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN, “Changes and Challenges of Drug Policies in the Americas”. Presentation in Executive Education Studio Trafficking Systems. February 2018.
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE PERU, “The Politics of Drug Violence,” December 2017
UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL TRES DE FEBRERO (Argentina), “A Research Agenda on State, Crime, and Violence”, November 2017.
CANISIUS COLLEGE, Center for Latin American Studies, “The Politics of Drug Violence,” April 2017.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, “Drug Trafficking in Latin America and the Peace Process in Colombia”, March 2017.
COLOMBIA NATIONAL POLICE, ERCAIAD (Regional School of the Counternarcotics Intelligence Community of the Americas). Speaker, Counternarcotic Policies in Latin America and Peace Process in Colombia, November 2016.
UNIVERSIDAD JORGE TADEO LOZANO, Bogotá, Colombia. Speaker at the Alexander Vom Humbolt Series, Drug TRafficking, Peace Agreement and Post Conflict, November 2016.
CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN Y DOCENCIA ECONÓMICA, CIDE, Mexico City, Coping with Danger and Fear: Organized Civilian Responses to Violence in Mexico, September 2016.
DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Criminals. Cops and Politicians: Dynamics of Drug Violence in Colombia and Mexico, September 2015.
WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS, "Drug Trafficking and the Peace Process in Colombia", 2014.
UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE, "How Might a Peace Agenda Address the Nexus of Drug Trafficking and Violence? Evidence from Cali and Medellín" Conference Pending Issues on the Colombian Peace Agenda, 2013.
ITAM, STANFORD UNIVERSITY "Violencia y narcotráfico en Cali y Ciudad Juárez", Conference The Public/Citizen Insecurity in Latin America: A Regional approach. Mexico City, 2013.
EL COLEGIO DE MEXICO, Presentations about youth and violence in Ciudad Juárez and Medellín, Coloquio Las violencias que afectan a los jóvenes en América Latina, 2012.
UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES, "Narcotráfico y violencia en Colombia y Mexico", Conference Nuevas perspectivas sobre la violencia en Colombia, 2012.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, "Drugs, crime, and violence: Redefining the link and rethinking policy alternatives", Conference Drug wars in the Americas: Looking back and thinking ahead, 2012.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, "The Drug War in Mexico: Beyond money and munitions", EPIIC Symposium 2012.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, "Narcotics-associated violence in Mexican and Colombian cities: A comparison", Conference Narcotic Wars At the Border, 2011.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Watson Institute for International Studies and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, "Drug violence in three Mexican cities", Conference Violent cities in the Global South, 2011.
UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO, Transborder Institute, "Drugs, violence and state sponsored protection rackets in Mexico", Conference Drug Trafficking-Related Violence in Mexico, 2010.
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, "Does illegality breed violence? Drug trafficking and State Sponsored Protection Rackets", Conference Drug Trafficking, Violence and Instability in Mexico, Colombia and the Caribbean, 2009.
UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT, Presentation at the brainstorming session the impact of organized crime on democratic governance in Central America and the Caribbean, New York 2007.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Scaling up and scaling down truces and negotiations with criminal actors”, American Political Science Association meeting. Washington, August 2019.
“Scaling up and scaling down truces and negotiations with criminal actors”, Latin American Studies Association Annual meeting. Boston, May 2019.
"Non-Victims and Civilian Responses to Violence in Mexico", International Studies Association Annual Meeting. Toronto, March 2019.
“Between Corruption and State-Criminal Negotiations”, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Boston, August 2018.
“The Drug Trade and State Violence in Internal Conflicts: Evidence from Peru” (with Soifer, H.), Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Barcelona, Spain, May 2018.
“Unpacking the Criminal-Rebel Distinction: New Armed Structures and Paramilitary Demobilization in Colombia”, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, September 2017
“Beyond a Criminal-Rebel Distinction: New Armed Structures and Paramilitary Demobilization in Colombia”, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, April 2017.
“Opening the Black Box of the Upper Huallaga Valley: Drugs, Insurgency, and Violence in Peru 1980-2000” ( with Soifer, H.), American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September 2016.
Coping with Danger and Fear: Organized Civilian Responses to Violence in Mexico, LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE LASA, San Juan, Puerto Rico. 2015.
"Elections, State Coercive Capacity and Violence in Burma/Myanmar and Colombia" (with Ardeth Thawnghmung), AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION APSA. Washington D.C. 2014.
“Hiding violence to deal with the state: criminal pacts in El Salvador and Medellín” (with Jose Miguel Cruz),LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE LASA. Chicago 2014.
MIDWEST POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION MPSA, Chicago, 2013.
LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION LASA, Washington D.C., 2013.
"State power, criminal competition, and drug violence: a systematic comparison between Colombian and Mexican cities".
"State power, criminal competition and violence", NORTHEAST POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION NPSA. Boston, 2012.
"Silent traffickers or brutal Criminals?: Drug violence in Colombian and Mexican cities", INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF DRUG POLICY ISSDP Annual Conference. Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2011.
"The colombianization of Mexico: Setting appropriate terms of debate", BROWN UNIVERSITY, Conference 'Violence in Mexico: Beyond Sensationalism', 2009.
LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION LASA, Rio de Janeiro, 2009.
MIDWEST POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION MPSA, Chicago, 2009.
"Partisan clues: the role of political parties in Latin American referenda".
"The context matters: Recent experiences with referendums and democratic consolidation in Latin America", with Patricio Navia, AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION APSA. Chicago, 2007.
"Do plebiscites foster democratic institutions and accountability?" With Patricio Navia,AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION APSA. Philadelphia, 2006.
"Do plebiscites foster democratic institutions and accountability?" With Patricio Navia, MIDWEST POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION MPSA. Chicago, 2006.
PEER REVIEW SERVICE
Member of Editorial Collective of the Journal Studies in Comparative International Development (September 2013-present). Member of advisory committee for Journal of Political Science (Revista de Ciencia Política) Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
Reviewer for Political Science Quarterly, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of elections, public opinion, and parties; América Latina Hoy; Colombia Internacional; Revista de Ciencia Política Universidad Nacional de Colombia; American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Peacebuilding and Development; Política y Gobierno, Revista Colombiana de Sociología, Comparative Political Studies, Latin American Politics and Society.