Juan Sebastián Vélez Triana

Anthropologist (PUJ, Colombia) with an MSc in Rural Development (PUJ, Colombia) and a PhD in Development Studies (Institute of Development Policy-IOB, University of Antwerp). He is a Postdoctoral Researcher of the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique – FNRS / UCLouvain & Research Associate of the Centre for Alternatives to Development – CEALDES. He works on transformative and collaborative research with rural communities, exploring struggles for autonomy and social-ecological justice within conservation-related conflicts from a political ecological perspective, with a particular focus on the Colombian Andes and Amazon regions.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Colombia & Latin America

CEALDES

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