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- Qualifications:LLB, MA, PhD, FHEA
- Position:Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations
- Department:School of Social Sciences
- Telephone:+441179656261
- Email:Lina.MalagonDiaz@uwe.ac.uk
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About me
Lina Malagon Diaz is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol).
She holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of St Andrews in the UK. She completed her undergraduate studies in Law at Externado University in Colombia, specialising in International Law and Politics.
Lina supports the research work of the Colombian organisation, the Center for Marine Justice as a Director of the research group Marine Justice and International Law.
Lina is also an Associate Editor of policy and practice for the Journal of Disappearance Studies (Bristol University press) and a past Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights Policy working on reparations to victims of armed conflicts.
At UWE Bristol, she is an Associate Member of the ‘Research in Public International Law’ research group, the ‘Justice and Security' research group and the Global Migration Network.
Prior to her academic career, Lina worked as a human rights lawyer, specialising in taking cases involving violence against women, indigenous peoples, and trade union members to international courts. She was also a consultant for the International Labour Organisation and several international NGOs. In 2016, she was appointed Deputy Director of Victims' Rights, Peace and Reconciliation at the Mayor's Office in Bogotá. Previously, she was Director of International Advocacy at the Colombian Commission of Jurists NGO.
Area of expertise
My areas of interest and research are human rights, enforced disappearances, gender, transitional justice, reparations, labour rights, peacebuilding, and Latin American politics.
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