Angelika Rettberg

Angelika Rettberg is a professor at the Political Science Department and the Dean of School of Social Sciences at Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá – Colombia). She is also an Associate Researcher at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and a Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO). In 2018 she served as a negotiator for the Colombian government in the peace talks with the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN). Her research has focused on several aspects of the political economy of armed conflict and peacebuilding, such as the relationship between legal resources, armed conflict, and criminality in several Colombian regions, the dynamics of transitional justice, and business behavior in contexts of armed conflict and peacebuilding. She serves as co-editor-in-chief of World Development journal.