Dr Angelika Rettberg
Angelika Rettberg is a Co-Director of the UKRI GCRF Gender, Justice and Security Hub, a professor in the Political Science Department, and the dean of the School of Social Sciences at Universidad de los Andes. Her research focuses on several aspects of the political economy of armed conflict and peacebuilding, such as the relationship between legal resources, armed conflict, and crime, the dynamics of transitional justice and reconciliation, and business behaviour in contexts of armed conflict and peacebuilding. On the GJS Hub, Angelika has pursued a project on the relationship between reconciliation and development.
Areas of Research
Political economy of transitional justice; resources, armed conflict, and peacebuilding; private sector, armed conflict, and peacebuilding; peace processes
Publications
- “Do Apologies Promote the Reintegration of Former Combatants? Lessons from a Video Experiment in Colombia”, Journal of Peace Research.
- “North-South Research Collaboration during Complex Global Emergencies: The Difficulty of Decolonizing Research during COVID-19”, Qualitative Research.
- Reconciliación: Experiencias en Colombia y el mundo. Ediciones Uniandes and ACDI/VOCA, 2023, available in English as Reconciliation in Colombia and the World.
- Taking Stock of Gender Equality in Colombia: An Overview. Universidad de los Andes and Gender, Justice, and Security Hub.
- “Género y política en las transformaciones sociales” (Gender and Politics in Social Transformation), Colombia Internacional, 115 (2023): 3-23.
