Department of Politics and International Studies
Rousbeh Legatis
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- Roles
- Department of Politics and International Studies PhD research student
- Qualifications
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International Relations and Peace Studies, German Diplom in Political Science, Free University Berlin, Germany
Social Sciences Bachelor of Arts, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany - Thesis title
- Communicating the Truth: Strategic Communication and Resonance in Transitional Justice – The Case of the Colombian Truth Commission
Biography
Rousbeh Legatis is a doctoral researcher in Politics and International Studies at SOAS University of London.
His research sits at the intersection of peacebuilding and transitional justice and examines the relationship between transitional justice and strategic communication, with a particular focus on the communication strategy developed by the Colombian Truth Commission.
His work interrogates communication, strategic or otherwise, as constitutive of transitional justice processes, which unfold within broader communication and information landscapes in deeply divided societies and contribute decisively to how violent pasts are addressed in processes of conflict transformation. Informed by field-based research and sustained engagement in Colombia’s peace process and other international contexts, his work engages with debates on transitional justice, strategic communication, and memory construction in conflict transformation, while also speaking to scholarship in journalism and media studies in post–peace agreement contexts (implementation phase).
Rousbeh holds a masters degree in Political Science from Freie Universität Berlin, where he specialised in International Relations and Peace and Conflict Studies. Alongside his doctoral research, as an independent consultant he supports communities, NGOs, state institutions, and the international community (GIZ, OAS, CPS, UNDP), and contributes to teaching in public and private universities as well as to the training of practitioners in the fields of peacebuilding, transitional justice and conflict transformation.
Prior to his current work, he was an international correspondent for Inter Press Service (IPS), based at its UN Bureau at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, where he covered international affairs and global policy processes.
Research interests
- Transitional justice in peacebuilding landscapes
- Strategic communication
- Journalists as actors in conflict transformation
- Memory construction in dealing with the past processes
- Truth commissions
- Implementation of peace agreements (post-peace agreement contexts)
