Juliana Poveda Clavijo
Juliana is a lawyer specialised in human rights and international humanitarian law from the National University of Colombia, 2013. She obtained an MA in political studies from the Institute of Political Studies and International Relations of the National University of Colombia in 2020. She explored in her thesis the violent configuration of the local institutions in a municipality located on the Colombia-Panamanian border. In 2021, she pursued another MA in development studies, major in social justice perspectives -peace and conflict Studies- from the International Institute of Social Studies of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. She approached forced migration governance strategies in the Colombian-Venezuelan case.
Likewise, she has been a socio-legal and humanitarian practitioner focused on forced migration and transitional justice. Juliana worked for the Colombian judiciary and the ombudsman, and international and civil society organisations, in the country. Recently, she had the opportunity to contribute to the Colombian Truth Commission and the International Criminal Court, where she did a seven-month professional visit at trial chambers on reparations issues.
At Ulster University, she aims to address in her PhD project the relationship between reparative justice, durable solutions for people forced to migrate, and solidarity between states. Her supervisors are Prof Brandon Hamber, Dr Gillian Kane, and Dr Sarah Craig.