My Portfolio

LECTURER AND TRAINER

As a LECTURER and TRAINER I have given courses, workshops, and seminars on the following topics:

  • Migration and Asylum Seekers internationally and with particular attention to Latin America and the Caribbean;
  • Human Rights;
  • Business and Human Rights;
  • Indigenous Peoples;
  • Conflict Transformation;
  • Chevron-Texaco case in the Ecuadorian Amazon;
  • International cooperation;
  • Job orientation for the international cooperation sector;
  • Career Service and Mentoring for International Careers;
  • Peace Agreements in Colombia;
  • Venezuelan migration crisis;
  • Migratory flux from Central America to the USA.

In the following institutions / organizations / courses

 

UNIVERSITY CARLOS III OF MADRID

SOCIAL CHANGE SCHOOL 

SIOI (Associazione Italiana per le Nazioni Unite – UNA Italia)

ONG 2.0

Others seminars, conferences and lessons:

 

RESEARCHER

As a RESEARCHER I have written/been involved in the following academic work.

– Realization, with  Jassir heredia Blanco, of the  report OBIMID –  “DESTIERRO VENEZOLANO: cifras y tendencias del más grande fenómeno migratorio de la Iberoamérica actual”  (April 2021)

– Participation in the 2019 Immigration Statistical Dossier prepared by the Idos Study and Research Center. I wrote about the migration in Latin America: Venezuela, from receiving migration country to one of the biggest producer of migrants (28 October 2020)

– Publication of the book “Violencia contra mujeres migrantes venezolanas en Colombia, 2017-2019: estado de la cuestión, georreferenciación y análisis del fenómeno” Editorial Académica Española (3 July 2020) – ISBN 13: 978-620-0-41317-8

– Participation in number 13, volume 5 of the magazine “cuaderno jurídico y político” with the article , “¿Qué influencia ha tenido y tiene el anarquismo en américa latina?: un análisis desde finales del siglo XIX hasta nuestros días” pag. 11 -19 Universidad Politécnica de Nicaragua (14 May 2020) – ISSN 2413-810X (paper edition). ISSN 2414-4428 (online edition).

– Participation in number 12, volume 4 of the magazine “cuaderno jurídico y político” with the article “Johan Galtung y el método Transcend: experiencias prácticas de resolución de conflictos internacionales con métodos pacíficos en américa latina” –  page. 60 -72,  Universidad Politécnica de Nicaragua (14 November 2019) – ISSN 2413-810X (paper edition). ISSN 2414-4428 (online edition).

– Participation in the collective work  “Build Resistance not Walls. A Reader for a World without Walls” with the article   “Aporophobia: the ideological wall of the third millennium”, SODEPAZ, campaign Stopthewall (9 November 2019) downloadable for free in English  and  Spanish

– Participation in the 2019 Immigration Statistical Dossier prepared by the Idos Study and Research Center. I wrote about the migration in Latin America: Migrating from the “North Triangle” to the USA: a caravan of dreams and hope against Donald’s wall Trump – (October 2019)

– Publication of the article  “Venezuela, migrazione e rifugio: i numeri dell’esodo”  in the Democracy and Security review of the Università Roma Tre, Anno VIII, n. 4/2018. ISSN: 2239-804X (7 October 2019)

– Creation of an interactive map on “cases of deaths abroad of Venezuelan migrant and refugee women“. Research conducted within the academic space of the Institute of International and European Studies “Francisco de Vitoria”, initially published by the Spanish newspaper El País on September 4, 2019, and subsequently replicated by the press of Venezuela, Colombia, Paraguay, and Italy.

– Participation in the collective book: “V cuaderno Cultura de Paz” edited in April 2019 by Institute of International and European Studies  “Francisco de Vitoria” of University Carlos III of Madrid in partner with UNESCO –  Migraciones, Seguridad y derecho: una relación compleja en busca de un difícil equilibrio – with the article at page. 69 “Riace no ha muerto, Riace se ha multiplicado: la lucha de un acalde en favor de los derechos humanos “. ISBN: 978-84-15270-44-7 

– Participation in volume 12 – 2018 of the REIB (Revista Electrónica Iberoamericana) edited by CEIB – Centro de Estudios de Iberoamérica URJC with the academic article entitled “Nueva Realidad Migratoria Venezolana”. ISSN 1988 – 0618

– Participation in the collective book: “Empresas y Derechos Humanos“ ISBN: 978-84-9197-028-6 – Editions Thomson Reuters ARANZADI / 2018 with the chapter “Chevron-Texaco y el Chernobyl amazónico” ( chapt. XVIII).

– Referee as an expert in Latin American issues, for the doctoral thesis “MANUELA SAENZ AIZPURU: myth and icon of revolutionary feminism” – the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” 2017/2018. In this thesis I have taken care of supervising and refining the translation of the exchanged epistles between Simon Bolivar and Manuela Saenz. This work has been published in two different books:

– Participation in the number 126 of the magazine “Tiempo de Paz” entitled DEFENSORAS Y DEFENSORES DE DERECHOS HUMANOS, with the article on p. 63 “Defendiendo la dignidad humana en el otro lado del Mediterráneo.Yvan Sagnet y la red NoCap”. /2017 

– Coordination of the collective book: “El acuerdo de Paz entre el gobierno de Colombia y las Farc” ISBN: 978958676700-2 – Editions doctrina y ley – University Libre (Bogotá) and UC3M (Madrid) /2017. In the same book, I’m the writer of the chapter: “Refugio y Explotación Sexual: El caso de las mujeres colombianas en la frontera norte de Ecuador.” 

– The academic article, “Perché studiare “scienze per la pace”?, published  in the magazine Scienza e Pace of the University of Pisa, 2014 / Vol 5, N° 2 – ISSN 2039-1749

– Participation in the book “Our school is the whole world: stories of migration and integration“ by Cristiana Vettori and published by the Gandhi Center – Quaderni Satyagraha n. 19, 2011 – ISBN: 978-88-7500-027-1

 

PROJECT COORDINADOR AND CONSULTANT

As a COORDINATOR, I count on the following experience:

  • Field coordinator of the identification activities focused on the needs of Venezuelan migrant women in situation of prostitution in Colombia: January – March 2021 (Bogotá, Cúcuta, Villa del Rosario, Barranquilla, Santa Marta, Riohacha and Maicao). Project financed by private donors.
  • Co-designer in the training course SIOI-Poste Italiane “Business and Human Rights” tailor-made for the 134 thousand employees of Poste Italiane – 2020
  • Cordinator of MASTER IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION,
    Euro-Project Management and Local Development – Social Change School /2020
  • Director of the course for the Internationals Careers  – ICF ROME /2020
  • Coordinator of the project: Mapa de Mujeres Venezolanas Migrantes y Refugiadas Muertas en el Extranjero /2019
  • Academic Coordinator of the Máster en Acción Solidaria Internacional y de Inclusión Social of the University Carlos III of Madrid / 2016, 2017, 2018
  • Coordinator of the internship program of the Máster en Acción Solidaria Internacional y de Inclusión Social of the Carlos III University of Madrid / 2016, 2017, 2018
  • Coordinator of the III International Congress “ODS, DDHH and Desafíos de la Solidaridad” celebrated in the Universidad Carlos III and sponsored by the Institute of International Studies and y European “Francisco de Vitoria” / 2017
  • Coordinator of the collective work “El acuerdo de Paz entre el gobierno de Colombia y las FARC” – Editions Doctrina y Ley, 450 pp. ISBN: 978-958-676-700-2 / 2017
  • Coordinator of the communication area of the “Línea 1800 refugio” project, funded by UNHCR and implemented by the NGO, FAS – Fundación Ambiente y Sociedad / 2015
  • Coordinator of programs to support the refugee population (financed by the UNHCR) of the NGO, FAS – Fundación Ambiente y Sociedad in the province of Santos Domingo de los Tsáchilas (Ecuador) / 2014,2015
  • Coordinator of the NGO office, FAS – Fundación Ambiente y Sociedad in Santos Domingo de los Tsáchilas (Ecuador) / 2014
  • Blogger on ” Civis Mundi – Diego Battistessa”  / From 2014 until today
  • Regional Coordinator (Tuscany) of the activities of the Italian NGO ASSEFA / From 2010 to 2013

 

As a CONSULTANT, I count with the following experiences:

 

  • Consultant for the International Coalition Every Woman Treaty – 2022
  • Consultant for the management training school for Non-profit, Social Change School – From 2017
  • Consultant in Venezuela and USA for the NGO “Un Grano de Arena”  – From 2016 to 2021
  • Consultant for the Italian association WOTS (Walking on the South) – From 2014 to 2017
  • Consultant for Oxfam Italia / UNHCR Ecuador – 2014

 

 

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