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HEYDER ALFONSO-CAMELO

Sociologist
Bogotá

Summary

Sociologist with interdisciplinary training in human rights, international humanitarian law, conflict resolution, transitional justice, security and access to justice. I work in research areas related to civil wars, post-conflict, human rights, state building, security and access to justice.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages

Work History

Scientific Collaborator

German-Colombian Peace Institute (CAPAZ)
05.2024 - Current

Consultant

Peace & Reconciliation Foundation
02.2020 - Current
  • Expert advice for the implementation of processes to strengthen community security observatories within the framework of the Grant Agreement between the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Peace and Reconciliation Foundation

Research Professor

University of Santo Tomás
08.2013 - Current

Consultant

KfW Bank aus Verantwortung - Office of the High Commissioner for Peace
11.2023 - 04.2024
  • Company Overview: https://www.kfw.de/kfw.de.html
  • Strengthen peace building in the territories by building with civil society (councilors and others) of the identified Territorial Peace, Reconciliation and Coexistence Councils (departmental and municipal), a diagnosis of these spaces for participation, training modules and a toolkit on the Total Peace policy
  • Https://www.kfw.de/kfw.de.html

Professor

Institute of Studies of the Public Prosecutor's Office
09.2023 - 12.2023
  • Provide professional services to the Institute of Studies of the Public Prosecutor's Office to advance training and education processes consisting in the development of teaching hours related to alternative methods of conflict resolution (ADR) and tutorials in virtual forum, with emphasis on sociological aspects

Consultant

Responsible Governance Program - DAI
01.2023 - 07.2023
  • Provide technical advice to the Human Rights Directorate of the Ministry of the Interior to lead the implementation and follow-up at the national level of the territorialization process of the coexistence policy and peace councils

Consultant

Legal Option Corporation - UNHCR
08.2022 - 12.2022
  • Provide advice to the Returns and Relocations Group of the Victims Unit in the design and implementation of tools for the follow-up and monitoring of the implementation of the returns and relocations plans in the closure phase

Consultant

Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition
01.2022 - 06.2022
  • Provide professional services to advance and execute research, review and elaboration of inputs for the chapter on human rights violations and breaches of IHL, in particular to present the main dimensions of violations in the framework of the armed conflict

Consultant

Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition
06.2021 - 12.2021
  • To provide professional services to the Truth Commission to advance and execute activities of documentation and analysis of information leading to the production of the final report

Consultant

American Bar Association
06.2021 - 12.2021
  • Support the development of the institutional capacity of the Secretariat of Security of Bogota D.C
  • And strengthen the District's Houses of Justice to increase access to quality justice services for migrants, victims of human rights violations as part of the implementation of ABA ROLI Objective 3 within the Connecting Pathways for Rights program

Consultant

Peace & Reconciliation Foundation
04.2021 - 10.2021
  • To provide professional services as an expert in qualitative social research and in the design of data collection instruments for the project to characterize 10 municipalities in Colombia and their community dynamics

Consultant

United Nations Development Programme
11.2020 - 05.2021
  • Consultancy to prepare an investigation on the participation of the National Police in the Colombian armed conflict for the Commission for the Clarification of the Truth

Program Technical Assistant Component 1

USAID
11.2013 - 02.2015

Sociologist

Unit for the Attention and Integral Reparation of Victims of the Crime
03.2013 - 11.2013

Workshop

Public Reason Corporation
08.2011 - 12.2011
  • Implementation of the Mobile House of Justice Program within the National House of Justice Program

Junior Consultant

Partners Colombia
09.2010 - 10.2011
  • Diagnosis of the National Justice Houses Program AJP (Access Justice Program) / USAID project

Consultant

Personería de Bogotá D.C.
06.2011 - 09.2011
  • Conduct a study to characterize women in prostitution in Bogota and analyze the progress, challenges and difficulties of the District's public policy in defense of the rights of this population

Consultant

Personería de Bogotá D.C.
03.2011 - 06.2011
  • To advance research aimed at characterizing and analyzing the programs and actions developed by the different district entities to protect children whose mothers are in prostitution

Support Consultant

Personería de Bogotá D.C.
07.2009 - 12.2010
  • Technical support for the development of an Oversight Office for the District Policy on Human Rights (Indigenous, Afro-descendants, Rrom)

Researcher

Associate Consultants Foundation
01.2008 - 05.2009
  • Project 'Access to justice for communities in vulnerable conditions'

Project Coordinator

European Union
06.2016 - 12.2008
  • Community Justice Mapping in 24 municipalities in the regions of Bajo Cauca Antioqueño, southern Tolima, Caquetá, Putumayo, Macarena, southern Córdoba and Pacífico Nariñense
  • Evaluation of Local Justice Systems
  • Construction of a Community Mediation Toolbox within the framework of the Project with Chemonics and the Ministry of Justice
  • Researcher: Peace-building initiative from British companies in Colombia
  • Security Plans for Development and Peace Programs

Coordinator

Santa Teresita School
06.2007 - 12.2008
  • Project 'Education for democracy and human rights'

Contractor

Association of Engineers of the New Granada Military University (ASICUM)
03.2007 - 05.2007
  • Tourism and Sociocultural Research Project to Promote Tourism and Belonging in Localidad 16 Puente Aranda

Internships

Latin American Institute of Alternative Legal Services (ILSA)
01.2005 - 03.2006
  • Organizational Analysis in Relation to the Current Situation of Community Mothers in Bogota

Trainer

Administrative Department of the Environment (DAMA)
11.2003 - 05.2004
  • Support for the Control of Solid Waste and Environmental Sanitation in the Commercial Sector, Restrepo Neighborhood, Antonio Nariño District

Education

PhD - Political Studies and International Relations

Universidad Nacional De Colombia
01.2021 - Current

master's degree - defense of human rights and international humanitarian law before international organizations, tribunals and courts

Universidad Santo Tomás
01.2013 - 12.2013

specialization - conflict resolution

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
01.2008 - 12.2008

sociology - undefined

University of Santo Tomás
01.2006 - 12.2006

high school - undefined

Colegio Mayor de San Bartolomé Foundation
01.2000 - 12.2000

Formal Teaching

  • 01/16, 06/20, Conflict Theory and Conflict Resolution Teacher, Department of Political Science
  • 08/14, 12/16, Lecturer Modules: Human Rights and Social Justice; History of Conflict and Peace, University of Cartagena
  • 06/16, 12/18, Peace Processes and Human Rights Module Teacher, Faculty of Law, Autonomous University of Colombia
  • 06/12, 06/16, Lecturer in General and Legal Sociology, Universidad Libre de Colombia
  • 11/12, 12/12, Teacher Major Conflicts of the 20th Century, Universidad Libre de Colombia
  • 02/12, 07/12, Political Education and Human Rights Teacher, Los Libertadores University Foundation
  • 06/09, 02/12, Specializations under the Virtual and Distance Education Modality, Los Libertadores University Foundation

Non Formal Teaching

  • 11/21, 12/12, Elaboration of the academic contents of the virtual diploma course in the construction of public policies on transitional justice, National University of Colombia - Bogotá Campus
  • 10/15, 12/15, Post-conflict and Conflict Resolution Module, Diploma in Human Rights
  • 09/15, Post-conflict and Conflict Resolution Module, Diploma course on Human Rights
  • 09/11, Strengthening of conciliation in equity in 20 municipalities in CSDI zones to the local justice system, Partners Colombia

Publications

  • Institutional capacities for peace in Colombian municipalities: contributions from the Territorial Councils of Peace, Reconciliation and Coexistence, Ciudad Paz-ando, 17, 2, 2024
  • Patterns of violence and macrocriminality: a disputed category in Colombian transitional justice, Alfonso-Camelo, H. and Chaparro Moreno, L., Análisis Político, 37, 108, 28-54, 2024, https://doi.org/10.15446/anpol.v37n108.116939
  • A militarized police for war and public order? The case of the Colombian National Police, Revista Latino-Americana De Criminologia, 4, 1, 286-327, 2024
  • Las Casas de Justicia de Bogotá ante la migración venezolana: acceso a la justicia y derechos de las personas migrantes, REVISTA CONTROVERSIA, 220, 51-89, 2023
  • Leaving violence behind in Guatemala: Variations of violence in the Guatemalan post-conflict, Alfonso Camelo, H., Doctoral thesis, National University of Colombia, 2021
  • Impacts of COVID-19 on violence against women. The case of Bogotá (Colombia), Alfonso, H., and Chaparro, L., 2020
  • Justice in the postwar period: the challenges of human rights protection in Colombia, 2020
  • States in post-conflict periods: elements for understanding the challenges overcoming an armed conflict, 2018
  • Justice in the territories: From state precariousness to the rule of law, 2017
  • Contributions to the understanding of violence in post-conflict periods, 2015
  • Transformations of the readings of violence in Colombia, 2012
  • Transforming the dynamics of confrontation in armed conflict, 2011
  • Beccaria is imprisoned in the district jail! A case study on the 'unconstitutional state of affairs' in prisons, 2010

Timeline

Scientific Collaborator

German-Colombian Peace Institute (CAPAZ)
05.2024 - Current

Consultant

KfW Bank aus Verantwortung - Office of the High Commissioner for Peace
11.2023 - 04.2024

Professor

Institute of Studies of the Public Prosecutor's Office
09.2023 - 12.2023

Consultant

Responsible Governance Program - DAI
01.2023 - 07.2023

Consultant

Legal Option Corporation - UNHCR
08.2022 - 12.2022

Consultant

Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition
01.2022 - 06.2022

Consultant

Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition
06.2021 - 12.2021

Consultant

American Bar Association
06.2021 - 12.2021

Consultant

Peace & Reconciliation Foundation
04.2021 - 10.2021

PhD - Political Studies and International Relations

Universidad Nacional De Colombia
01.2021 - Current

Consultant

United Nations Development Programme
11.2020 - 05.2021

Consultant

Peace & Reconciliation Foundation
02.2020 - Current

Project Coordinator

European Union
06.2016 - 12.2008

Program Technical Assistant Component 1

USAID
11.2013 - 02.2015

Research Professor

University of Santo Tomás
08.2013 - Current

Sociologist

Unit for the Attention and Integral Reparation of Victims of the Crime
03.2013 - 11.2013

master's degree - defense of human rights and international humanitarian law before international organizations, tribunals and courts

Universidad Santo Tomás
01.2013 - 12.2013

Workshop

Public Reason Corporation
08.2011 - 12.2011

Consultant

Personería de Bogotá D.C.
06.2011 - 09.2011

Consultant

Personería de Bogotá D.C.
03.2011 - 06.2011

Junior Consultant

Partners Colombia
09.2010 - 10.2011

Support Consultant

Personería de Bogotá D.C.
07.2009 - 12.2010

Researcher

Associate Consultants Foundation
01.2008 - 05.2009

specialization - conflict resolution

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
01.2008 - 12.2008

Coordinator

Santa Teresita School
06.2007 - 12.2008

Contractor

Association of Engineers of the New Granada Military University (ASICUM)
03.2007 - 05.2007

sociology - undefined

University of Santo Tomás
01.2006 - 12.2006

Internships

Latin American Institute of Alternative Legal Services (ILSA)
01.2005 - 03.2006

Trainer

Administrative Department of the Environment (DAMA)
11.2003 - 05.2004

high school - undefined

Colegio Mayor de San Bartolomé Foundation
01.2000 - 12.2000
HEYDER ALFONSO-CAMELOSociologist