We welcome applications by academics to visit and work at CERAC in violence and conflict-related projects. According to space and resources availability the center would be able to provide a desk to academic visitors, as well as access to other resources like internet and limited printing and office facilities. Academic visitors are expected to engage in ongoing research initiatives at CERAC and to contribute to the academic life of the center, in particular to present at the seminar series and publish their work in our (non-copyright) working paper series. Previous academic visitors can be found here. For more information please write to info@cerac.org.co stating your research interests and background.

 

    
Charlotte Boisteau     Charlotte Boisteau is a Research Associate at CERAC. She worked at the UN-HABITAT office in Geneve; is also the coordinator of the project ¨Urban Violence and Security Policies in Bogotá and Barcelona¨; and has collaborated with CERAC in several projects related to urban security in Colombia.  
       
         
Chaowarit Chaowsangrat
Chaowarit Chaowsangrat is a doctoral candidate in History at University College London, where Dr. Christopher Abel acting as his supervisor as well as a Lecturer in International Relations at Chiang Mai University in Thailand. Chaowarit is currently working with CERAC to conduct a research on social cleansing in urban cities in Colombia, particularly Bogotá.
 
Luke Dowdney Luke Dowdney is a researcher at Viva Rio who has worked extensively on COAV (Children in Organised Armed Violence). He visited CERAC in July 2205 in order to exchange information on the victimisation of children and youths in Colombia.
   
       
Pablo Dreyfus Pablo Dreyfus is the Director of Research at Viva Rio where he leads the Small Arm Control Research Project and has visited CERAC in March and July 2005 as part of CERAC's reserach on the regulation and markte of firearms in Colombia.
     
     
         
Brodie Ferguson Brodie Ferguson is Research Associate at CERAC. His research focuses on the demography of armed conflict and forced migration, and he is additionally engaged in projects with the Small Arms Survey and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). He has visited CERAC in several ocasions during 2004 and 2005.
     
     
         
Andrea González Andrea González is a Research Assistant at IEPRI - Universidad Nacional de Colombia, working with Professor Eduardo Pizarro. She visited CERAC during November and December 2005 in order to conduct reserach on the impact on violent crime of the DDR process with the paramilitary groups currently in place in Colombia.
   
       
Nicolás Florquín Nicolás Florquín is a researcher at the Small Arms Survey and visited CERAC in October 2005 to conduct work on urban security and costing of violence.
     
Neil Johnson is a Research Associate at CERAC. He is a Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. Neil's research focuses on complex systems and its application to the study of violence. He has visited CERAC in several ocasions during 2004 and 2005.
Neil Johnson
   
   
   
Dr. Robert Muggah is Research Associate at CERAC. He is the Research Director of the Small Arms Survey at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. There he oversees research on post-conflict transition and recovery, arms control and armed violence, disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) and security sector reform (SSR) in over 30 countries. While working on approaches to mapping human security in Colombia, he is also leading the development of OECD/DAC Guidance for Armed Violence Reduction and serves on several UN expert panels. He has visited CERAC in several ocasions during 2004 and 2005.
Robert Muggah
   
   
Nazih Richani Dr. Nazih Richani, is director of Latin American Studies and Professor in the Department of Political Science, at Kean University. He has earned two Fulbright awards. The first is a Fulbright Senior Specialists grant in political science at the University of the Andes in Colombia. Last year, Richani was awarded a similar Senior Specialists grant to study at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He visited CERAC in december 2005 to discuss issues about crime impost conflict societies.
   
 
Michael Spagat Professor of Economics at Royal Holloway-University of London and has an extensive record of research in political economy of conflicts, dictatorships and repressive regimes. He has visited CERAC in several ocasions during 2004 and 2005.
Michael Spagat
             
             
     

 
           
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