Department of Politics and International Studies
Daniela Quinche Pachon
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Key information
Key information
- Email address
- 733746@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title
- Living in the Grey: Rebel-Local Embeddedness and the Reintegration Paradox in Protracted Contemporary Conflicts
- Internal Supervisors
- Professor Phil Clark & Dr Tolga Sinmazdemir
Biography
Before joining SOAS, Daniela collaborated in the Colombian peace dialogues, from the negotiation stage through the former FARC-EP (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) disarmament process, and the everyday realities of the early implementation of the 2016 Peace Agreement.
She has since contributed to documenting violence patterns, explaining the internal dynamics of armed organisations, and understanding how war shapes local orders, as part of Colombia’s ongoing transitional justice process. She was awarded the ESRC-UBEL (Economic and Social Research Council-University of London, Bloomsbury and East London) Doctoral Training Partnership Scholarship, which supports her PhD research.
In 2024, she received the Lisa Smirl Prize for her dissertation in the MA in Conflict, Security and Development at the University of Sussex. She has carried out extensive fieldwork in several regions of Colombia and has participated in both teaching activities and specialised programmes on peacebuilding, conflict analysis and transitional justice. Daniela holds an MA in Conflict, Security and Development from the University of Sussex and a BA in Political Science from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
Research interests
- The dynamics and afterlives of organised violence
- Armed governance and the formation of local orders
- Social relations and boundary transformations in wartime settings
- War to peace transitions and continuums
- Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR)
- Analytical and mixed-methods approaches to the study of war
