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Aída Sofia Rivera Sotelo

D. in Anthropology with emphasis in social studies of science and technology from the University of California, Davis, USA (2021), M.A. in cultural studies from Queen’s University in Canada (2012), and an economist from the University Nacional de Colombia (2009). Your research work has revolved around critical development studies, political ecology, multi-species ethnography and issues related to gold mining, climate change and biodiversity loss.ity. His doctoral research consists of an approach to ethnographic to the reduction of coral and commercial fish cover near the shores of the Rosario Archipelago, Cartagena, through coral restoration practices and fishing. handcrafted. More recently, in the area of consultancy, discussions have been approached on the following topics on infrastructure for climate change adaptation in Cartagena (Water as Leverage) and the role of gas in the energy transition.

More information about his work and publications can be found here .

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María Cecilia Roa-García

Professor and researcher in the area of environmental justice from transdisciplinary perspectives, especially on issues related to water, extractive frontiers and democracy. environmental. Ph.D. in Natural Resources, Environment and Sustainability from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Master’s degree in Development Studies from the London School of Economics, United Kingdom.

He is currently involved in research on water justice in the cities of Barranquilla and Buenaventura, water concessions in energy territories in Colombia and the role of mining in the energy transition.

Some of his most recent publications are Rinaldi, P. N., Roa-García, M. C., & Grajales, E.(2022). Like harvesting tarulla: The decolonization of being from a petrolized swamp. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space». and Roa-García, M.C. and Murcia-Riaño, D.M.(2021),«El Acuerdo d e Escazú, la democracia ambiental y la ecologización de los derechos humanos«, published in Naturaleza y Sociedad, Desafíos Medioambientales No. 1.

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Alejandro Mantilla Quijano

Bachelor and Master’s Degree in Philosophy from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, with studies of D. in Philosophy from the same university. Member of the Permanent Group of Alternatives to Development promoted by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, of the editorial team of La Siniestra Magazine and the Pacto Ecosocial del Sur in Colombia. He has advised organizations and peasant unions, and has been a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. National University of Colombia. In theIn recent years, he has conducted research on the context Colombian and Latin American politics, and on the political turn in analytical philosophy. Currently is a member of the industry interference and corporate capture task force of the Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo.

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Claudia Patricia Corredor Triana

A woman proud of being born in a normal family, full of love, in Sogamoso, Boyacá, where she had a very happy childhood in the streets of the Rosario neighborhood. She declares herself a Catholic of birth and conviction. He studied at the Colegio Nacional de Sugamuxi and was part of the group of La Mueca Theater, which was founded in the neighborhood, graduated from the Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Sogamoso section.

She has worked as a consultant for the private sector, but has also been an entrepreneur herself with the consulting firm Gairo S.A.S. She currently works as an external lecturer for Icontec and as a lecturer at the Colombian School of Engineering in the Master’s Degree in Hydraulic Resources.

He is part of the Collective for the Protection of the Province of Sugamuxi, a movement that has been defending the territory for 10 years.

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Diana Milena Murcia

Lawyer and specialist in criminal legal institutions from the National University of Colombia, Master in Social Sciences with mention in Sociology from Flacso-Ecuador. She is a human rights defender, consultant and advisor on environmental human rights issues and university professor, particularly in constitutional, human rights and criminal law.

He has written several texts on environmental human rights, among which the following stand out: «Opinion of the Court ethical Forest fireses and agribusinessThe company’s operations in Brazil and Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia and Ecuador» (2021); «Standards on climate change, environment and human rights» (Ciedh and Heinrich Böll Stiftung, 2020); «The Right to Consultation Does Not Exist», which is a chapter of the book «From Consultation to Consent: Debates and Experiences from Abya Yala. Landis life» (Quito, 2020); and «Ten years of nature as a subject of rights. Study of the issue in the normative and jurisprudential spheres», in: «A Decade of Rights of Nature» (2019).

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Jaime Moreno Quijano

Environmental friend of Censat Agua Viva, urban gardener and teacher at the Escuela Superior de Administración Pública, ESAP in Bogotá, in the Environmental Policies and Development in Colombia course, as well as in the Master in Analysis of Political and Economic Problems and International Relations of the Academia Diplomática de San Carlos and the Universidad Externado de Colombia.

Some of his publications are Nature and Marxism ( 2021), Public administration and territory, a complex action in conflict and peace scenarios in Colombia (2015) and Territory and environment in Colombia (2011).

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Javier Orlando Marín Rodríguez

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Luis Jerónimo Pulido Arredondo

Agronomist engineer, Master in Territory, Conflict and Culture, with professional experience in socio-environmental processes, territorial governance, environmental land use planning and rural development in the Amazon, Orinoco and Andean regions. It has experience in the formulation and coordination of projects, management of social processes and agreements with peasant and indigenous communities and local actors, as well as in social research in agroecology, socio-environmental conflicts, armed conflict, and environmental protection.az. Advises and accompanies social organizations in agrarian and environmental matters.

Among his recent research and publications are «Alternatives for governance territorial planning and management of protected areas in the planning and management processes.in the wasteland of Chingaza», «Analysis of Political Economy and Development Programs with an Approach Territorial–PDET–in the region of Chiribiquete NP, Caquetá, Guaviare and Meta», «Agroecología and «Protected Areas in Rural Development Plans» and «Protected Areas in Development Plans Municipal and Departmental. Parks National Natural Resources of Colombia».

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José Germán Castañeda Rojas

Former employee of ACOTV, very involved in his union; documentary filmmaker and close to CensatAgua Viva for almost 20 years.

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Luis Fernando Ortiz Quintero

Biologist from the National University of Colombia. He holds a Master’s degree in Geography and Environmental Analysis from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, UFMG, Brazil. He has worked at the Universidad del Cauca and the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. He has been a member of the Censat Assembly for more than 10 years.

Some of his latest publications are Cuencas hidrográficas y ecología del paisaje: Una guía conceptual y metodológica (Watersheds and landscape ecology: A conceptual and methodological guide (2021) and Retos y desafíos de los PDET en políticas públicas para la paz: algunos casos en Colombia (2020).

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Luis Francisco Bustamante Díaz

Master in Fine Arts with a specialization in Sculpture from the Universidad Nacional, with seven years of experience. Sociology semesters at the Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Bucaramanga. Defender of Human Rights since 1977. He worked with Father Javier Giraldo, part of theHe participated in Colectivo 82 and in the birth of Asfaddes, and was president of the Colombian Association of Bank Employees, ACEB, Santander branch.

In the 1990s, he collaborated with the Cinep database, in the «Human Rights Now» Campaign and in the «Human Rights Now» campaign.ation of the «Never Again» Colombia. Conducted performances on forced disappearance, peace dialogues and forced displacement and was a volunteer with the Committee for Solidarity with the Political Prisoners and at the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal. Collaborated with the Networks Project in Bucaramanga until its closure, as a result of raids and arbitrary detentions. Work began on the reconstruction of the historical memory with the Manuel Cepeda Vargas Foundation, until the dissolution of that organization. Job with Tierra de Hombres Italia in Bogota accompanying the displaced children with whom this agency works.

In the 2000s, in memory issues with Asociación Minga, I coordinated the narrative line on forced displacement of the television series «Francisco el Matemático», supporting the research, construction of the scripts and also as an actor, until, due to self-censorship from the RCN channel dismantled the dramatic line. With the same Asociación Minga and the Manuel Manuel Foundation Cepeda participated in the construction of the «Bus de la memoria» (Memory Bus), which he was in charge of for a time after the exile of some of its directors.

In 2012 he participated in the creation of the «Kilometers of life and memory», which received in 2015 the honorable mention of the «Antonio Nariño» HD award from the French and German embassies in Colombia.

Between 2019 and 2021, the three-year term of the Commission for the clarification of truth, coexistence and non-repetition, he was coordinator of its territorial office in Santander.

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Luz Dinora Vera Acevedo

Civil Engineer from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin. Master’s Degree in Integral Environmental Management, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, Mexico. D. in Management with emphasis in human sciences, HEC, Montreal, Canada.

Professor and researcher at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin, since 2011, in the areas of business management and sustainability, social responsibility and human management. He has experience in environmental and social impact assessment studies in communities and life cycle analysis, as well as in circular economy, sustainability and business management processes. She is director of the Economics and Environment Research Group, -Geyma, attached to the Faculty of Mines of the National University of Colombia, Medellin.

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Omaira Rios Chaparro

Lover of life, with its goodness and its challenges, committed and in solidarity with this planet Earth, home of passage; warrior, creative, joyful, changeable, restless, caring.

She has put her knowledge and experience in Solidarity Economy Business Administration at the service of environmental and Human Rights NGO’s in Colombia, consciously and convinced of the enormous wealth of the «we are», of the «we», of the collective… the sum of diverse «I’s».

He worked at Censat Agua Viva for more than 15 years in different administrative positions, including Treasurer and what is now the Administrative Coordination. He currently works in the administrative area of Peace Brigades International, PBI.

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Danilo Urrea

Philosopher of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He has been associated with Friends of the Earth International since 2003, working on territorial research processes in Colombia and Latin America, with emphasis on the privatization, commodification and financialization of water, and on the extractive mining model.energetic. Also in Colombia and Latin America and the Caribbean Caribe has contributed in documentary production on environmental issues, in processes of implementation of popular education and environmental popular education, and in the strengthening of popular-community communications.

He has collaborated as an international correspondent for Real World Radio, RMR. Since 2016serves as Regional Facilitator for Friends of the Earth Latin America and the Caribbean, Atalc, and is the Regional Focal point of the Internationalist Solidarity System, ISS. His most recent publication is entitled «Solidaridad internacionalista y lucha frente al poder transnacional / Reflexiones a propósito de la pandemia de covid-19 y las violaciones empresariales a los derechos de los pueblos y sus derechos humanos» (Internationalist solidarity and struggle against transnational power / Reflections on the covid-19 pandemic and corporate violations of the rights of peoples and their human rights).

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Rosa Emilia Bermúdez Rico

Economist, sociologist and PhD in population studies. Professor at Universidad del Valle in the Department of Social Sciences. Feminist and environmentalist. Expert in studies on social inequality with an intersectional approach considering social class, gender, ethnic and racial identification.