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Catalina Niño
Project coordinator at Friedrich Ebert Stiftung en Colombia – Fescol and Coordinator of FES Regional Security Project in Latin America
Catalina has managed the Regional Project on Security in Latin America and the Caribbean of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) since 2010, focusing on organized crime dynamics, its impacts on democratic governance and rule of law and the necessary institutional reforms to tackle the challenges posed by those problems.
She also directed FES Drug Policy Project 2015-2016, which argued for the need to reform traditional drug policies, particularly those intended to reduce supply, taking into account the poor results of the strategies implemented so far. She has also worked as an analyst on issues of private sector, conflict resolution and peace building in Colombia, at the Fundación Ideas para la Paz. She was part of the Permanent Mission of Colombia of the Organization of American States, Washington, DC (2005-2007).
She has edited several books published as a result of the work of FES Regional Project on Security in Latin America.
Recent publications
- “Cerca de un acuerdo… ¿cerca de la paz? El laberinto de las negociaciones en Colombia”. Revista Nueva Sociedad. No. 257, mayo-junio de 2015.
- La seguridad de América Latina: respuestas fragmentadas a desafíos transnacionales. En Anuario de Seguridad Regional en América Latina y el Caribe 2011. Bogotá, 2011.
Co-author
- “Die kriminelle Seite der Marktlogik”. With Hans Mathieu and Marius Müller-Henning. In Berliner Republik. Berlin, No. 1/2014. http://www.b-republik.de/aktuelle-ausgabe/die-kriminelle-seite-der-marktlogik
- Aspectos de la situación actual de las drogas ilegales y propuestas de reforma. With Hans Mathieu. Introduction to the book De la represión a la regulación: propuestas para reformar las políticas contra las drogas. Bogotá, 2013.
Editor
- Benavides, Farid, Alberto Binder and Carolina Villadiego. La reforma a la justicia en América Latina: las lecciones aprendidas. Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Bogotá, 2016.
- AA. Anuarios de Seguridad Regional en América Latina y El Caribe, 2010-2015. From 2010 to 2012, with Hans Mathieu.
- AA. De la represión a la regulación: propuestas para reformar las políticas contra las drogas. Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Bogotá, 2013. With Hans Mathieu. Available also in English: From Repression to Regulation: Proposals for Drug Policy Reform.