Laura Gutiérrez, Colombian researcher who has recently completed a PhD in Criminology at the University of Cambridge. She holds an LL.B. with a minor in Criminal Justice and Human Rights (Maastricht University), an MA in Global Criminology (Utrecht University) and an MPhil in Criminological Research (University of Cambridge). Her work has covered the Colombian police, as well as state-corporate crime as related to the gold mining business in Colombia.
Markus Hochmüller, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Changing Character of War Centre’s CONPEACE Programme, Pembroke College, University of Oxford. He is also an Affiliate Member of Oxford’s Latin American Centre and Co-PI of the research project “The Comeback of the Latin American Armed Forces” (funded by the Oxford/Berlin Research Partnership). Markus holds a PhD in Political Science from Freie Universität Berlin, and his research focuses on security and development in Latin America with an emphasis on peace -and state-building, security sector reform, and border governance.
Annette Idler, Director of Studies at the Changing Character of War Centre, Senior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, and at the Department of Politics and International Relations. She is also a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Annette holds a DPhil in Development Studies (Oxford Department of International Development) and is the author of “Borderland Battles: Violence, Crime, and Governance at the Edges of Colombia’s War” (Oxford University Press, 2019). Her research interests lie at the interface of conflict, security and transnational organised crime, especially drug trafficking as well as terrorism, peace building and governance.
