Recent publications
23 entries
Participatory narrative work with former child soldiers examining how young people re-imagine identity, agency and possible futures beyond advocacy alone.
Examines identity transformation and emerging post-traumatic growth among former child soldiers through the stories they tell about past, present and future.
Explores how teenagers move between school, family, community and part-time involvement in drug trafficking without fitting simple categories of victim or offender.
Develops storylistening as a participatory methodology that connects young survivors’ narratives with community recognition and peacebuilding.
Considers how participatory, reflective approaches can reshape journalism practice in societies emerging from armed conflict.
Examines how journalists can understand trauma without reproducing harm and contribute more constructively to reconciliation and peacebuilding.
Uses life writing to explore identity development and changing senses of self among former child soldiers in Colombia.
Shows how armed governance, local power and neo-paramilitary violence shape threats and killings directed at journalists.
Reframes journalists’ exposure to violence through continuous traumatic stress and the realities of reporting where danger does not end.
Explores intergenerational storylistening as a route to recognition, dialogue and peacebuilding among demobilised guerrillas and communities.
Multidisciplinary perspectives on how illicit economies are embedded in formal economies, everyday relationships, security, governance and marginalised communities.
Explains how secrecy, coercion and criminalisation shape knowledge, with attention to access, anonymity, safety, uncertainty and responsible dissemination.
Reframes youth involvement as a patterned social outcome shaped by structural exclusion, constrained agency, work, socialisation and identity.
Examines county lines through recruitment, work-like routines, coercion and constrained agency, linking disruption with safety, inclusion and disengagement.
Examines reporting that challenges a simple victim–perpetrator divide and makes structural violence, community voices and social cohesion visible.
Practical and ethical guidance from Colombia, El Salvador and the United Kingdom on reporting gangs without sensationalism or increasing risk.
An Advanced Research Workshop in Bodrum bringing researchers and practitioners into dialogue on illicit economies, conflict, terrorism, governance and security. The collaboration produced an edited volume published by IOS Press in 2026.
An interactive, gamified narrative developed for teenagers in areas affected by recruitment and re-recruitment, translating psychosocial research into resources that strengthen self-efficacy and resilience.
Mapped murders of former FARC combatants alongside territorial control, armed-group competition, coca and displacement, challenging the idea of a single national post-conflict transition.
Participatory journalism with 80 youth journalists in Bogotá, Buenaventura, Arauca and Córdoba, examining how teenagers understood their lives, communities and futures while developing resources for prevention, self-efficacy and civic participation.
Participatory video and autobiographical work with active and disengaged gang members in Bucaramanga analysing life before, during and after gang involvement.
Participatory animation created safer routes for truth-telling, recognition and inclusion, producing the animated series Mi Historia: The Children Who Fought War in Colombia and the long-form documentary Operación Berlín.
Creative autobiography and participatory animation with former child soldiers and other young survivors produced The Tree of Love, accepted as audiovisual testimony by Colombia’s Truth Commission.