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Adriana Rincón Villegas

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Visiting Fellow Adriana is a Doctoral Candidate in the Global Governance and Human Security PhD program at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies (University of Massachusetts Boston.) She holds a MA in Geography from University of Georgia (2015), and a Bachelor’s degree in Law from Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano (2009). In the summer of 2017, Adriana was recipient of the UMass Boston-SSRC Transdisciplinary Dissertation Proposal Development Program award. Her research interests include critical approaches to transitional justice, peace, and gender studies in Colombia.  Drawing from critical peace studies and decolonial feminist literature, her dissertation research explores the gender assumptions, roles, and identities the legal notions of peace as a constitutional right (1991) and territorial peace (2016) create, share, privilege, and reproduce in Colombia. 

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Visiting Fellow Adriana is a Doctoral Candidate in the Global Governance and Human Security PhD program at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies (University of Massachusetts Boston.) She holds a MA in Geography from University of Georgia (2015), and a Bachelor’s degree in Law from Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano (2009). In the summer of 2017, Adriana was recipient of the UMass Boston-SSRC Transdisciplinary Dissertation Proposal Development Program award. Her research interests include critical approaches to transitional justice, peace, and gender studies in Colombia.  Drawing from critical peace studies and decolonial feminist literature, her dissertation research explores the gender assumptions, roles, and identities the legal notions of peace as a constitutional right (1991) and territorial peace (2016) create, share, privilege, and reproduce in Colombia.