
The Global Initiative Network
GIN Member
Catalina Uribe Burcher
Peace and Development Specialist, UN Resident Coordinator's Office in Myanmar
Catalina’s work at the UN Resident Coordinator’s Office in Myanmar currently focuses on supporting the UN prevention agenda in the framework of the 1 February coup d’état. She conducts regular political-economy analysis, conflict assessments, scenario-building and forecasting exercises, and assists the UN to mainstream conflict sensitive and human rights-based programming.
Before this position she worked at the UN Resident Coordinator’s Office in Guatemala, prior to which she served for over seven years at International IDEA on policy-oriented analysis and project management regarding democracy, conflict, security and political finance.
She started her law career as a criminal defence attorney in Colombia. Since then she has been involved, inter alia, in projects dealing with conflict and victims’ rights in Colombia, and trial observation in Western Sahara.
She is a Swedish and Colombian lawyer specialised in criminal law, with a master’s degree in international and Comparative Law. With fifteen years of professional experience, she have worked in Sweden, the US, Asia, Latin America, West and Southern Africa, and the Baltic States.
Recent publications
- ‘Innovaciones covid-19 para cambio climático‘, Prensa Libre, 30 May 2020
- ‘Covid-19, ¿escucharemos a la ciencia?‘, Diario de Centro América, 5 April 2020
- ‘Guatemala Common Country Analysis‘, United Nations, November 2019
- ‘Cryptocurrencies and Political Finance‘ International IDEA, 15 March 2019
- ‘Protección de la Democracia contra el Crimen Organizado: Elecciones, partidos políticos, democracia local y prestación de servicios’, In: Integridad electoral. México en perspectiva global, Flacso Mexico, 2019
- ‘Political Finance in Mongolia: Assessment and recommendations‘, International IDEA and Open Society Forum, November 2018
- ‘Helmets are not enough: What West Africa today tells us about the realities of conflict prevention‘, International IDEA, 21 September 2018
- ‘What cryptocurrencies will do to the integrity of politics’, World Economic Forum, 16 April 2018, The Global State of Democracy, International IDEA, 2017
- ‘Organized Crime’s Engagement in Democratic Politics: Strategies for Prevention and Mitigation’, Journal on International Relations and Diplomacy, issue of No. 10 (2017)
- ‘Is Democracy Good for Peace?’, The Washington Post, 15 September 2017
- ‘Assessing the Threat of Nexus between Organized Crime and Democratic Politics: Mapping the factors’, Journal on International Relations and Diplomacy, issue of No. 1 (2017)
- Protecting Politics: Deterring the influence of organized crime on local democracy, International IDEA and the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime, 2016
- ‘Ayotzinapa then and now: Organized crime’s grip on elections and political parties’, International IDEA, 29 September 2016
- ‘Mission Impossible’, International IDEA, 12 September 2016
- ‘From Netflix ‘Narcos’ to Peru: money, drugs and elections’, openDemocracy, 15 March 2016
- Illicit Networks and Politics in Latin America, International IDEA, NIMD and the Clingendael Institute, 2014
- ‘Latin America Governed by Crime’, ISN and InSight Crime, 20 March 2014
- ‘Organized crime, Colombia’s peace spoiler?‘, openDemocracy, 27 August 2014
- Illicit Networks and Politics in the Baltic States, International IDEA, 2013
- ‘The link between politics and organized crime in the Andean region’, International IDEA, 22 January 2013
- The Guide on Factors of Election-related Violence External to Electoral Processes, International IDEA, September 2013
Interviews
Conferences & Interviews
- “Kidnapping Democracy in Digital Age” (International Anti-Corruption Conference, 20 Nov 2018)
- Facebook Live Q&A on Organized Crime and Conflict Prevention (IDEA International, 2 Oct 2018)
- Facebook Live Q&A on Organized Crime and Conflict Prevention (2)(IDEA International, 2 Oct 2018)
- “Growing problem” of organized crime corrupting politics worldwide (Interview, 20 Dec 2016)
- “Protecting Politics: Deterring the Influence of Organized Crime” – Panel Discussion (United Nations, 5 Dec 2016)
- “Webinar: Organized Crime and Local Democracy” (IDEA International, 26 Oct 2016)
- “Nexus between organized crime and politics in Latin America: Implications for the Post-2015 Development Agenda” – Panel Discussion (United Nations, 18 Nov 2014)
- “Building Peace at the Nexus of Organized Crime, Conflict, and Extremism“, International Peace Institute (13 Nov 2014)
- “Dirty money: breaking the link between organised crime and politics” – Panel Discussion (Overseas Development Institute, 12 Dec 2013)
Conferences & Interviews