Damian Alejandro Gariglio

ASISTANT RESEARCHER LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN REGION

         International Crisis Group, Bogotá, Colombia. Calle 84 No 18-38 Of. 504A

    ▪ Research focused on the international expansion of Tren de Aragua in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile.

         Research focused on human trafficking and victims of sexual exploitation at the hands of Tren de Aragua   

      ▪ Criminal structures operating in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Venezuela and Peru.

  ▪ Research focused on “Total Peace Negotiations”, Civic-Military relations in Colombia.

CONSULTANT, LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN REGION

Witness Experts. Expert Witness agency, London, United Kingdom.

▪           Providing legal and academic research services as a consulting expert witness and expert court reports, country of origin reports, asylum immigration reports for courts and tribunal services.

▪           Expert reports focused on victims of gang related violence in El Salvador, Honduras, Peru. Victims of political persecution in Nicaragua. Victims of Gender Based Violence and sexual exploitation in Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Caribbean Islands. 

Researcher Humanitarian Disarmament

Colombian Campaign to Stop Landmines, Bogota, Colombia.

POLICY ANALYST

Human Security Network for Latin America and Caribbean Region (SEHLAC).

Follow up and analysis of United Nations International Meetings, in the Autonomous Weapons Systems Group of Governmental Experts discussion at the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) Analyses and internal reports on International Security.

Business or sector Humanitarian disarmament, arms control

HUMANITARIAN DISARMAMENT ADVISER

Colombian Campaign to Stop Landmines, Bogota, Colombia. Street 26 BN°4A-45 Building KLM.

Projects involving arms control in the cities of Bogota, Cali and Medellin exerting pressure on the Colombian State institutions. Raising awareness on the need of a ban on sale of small arms.

Designing a project for the United Nations focused on arms control and gender issues.

Projects involving the ban on autonomous weapons systems. Raising awareness among students at Universities in Bogota. https://youthagainstkillerrobots.org/

Business or sector Humanitarian disarmament, Arms control, gender issues.

24 – HOUR CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT MEMBER

Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, Geneva, Switzerland.

Support provided during the 24h conference on Global Organized Crime focused on the organization, logistics and communication.

Business or sector Research, Academy, Civil Society Organization, Transnational Organized Crime.

ASSISTANT RESEARCHER

University of Buenos Aires, UBACYT Scholarship.

Research focused on International Criminal Organizations ¨Primer Commando Capital¨ and its influence in neighbouring countries like Argentina, Paraguay and Peru

Business or sector Research, Academy, Transnational Organized Crime

ANALYSTAND CONSULTANT

Spanish Xinhua News Agency

Analyst and consultant focused on the Chinese presence in LATA.M. Business or sector News Agency, Journalism, Chinese studies.

NOTETAKER

United Nations Department for General Assembly and Conference Management /Argentina Foreign Office, Ministry of International Relations.

BAPA+40 Second High-level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation. Notetaker in Side-events.

Business or sector International Organizations, United Nations, Foreign Office, South – South cooperation.

PROJECTS MONITORING AND EVALUATION AREA

Colombian Campaign to ban landmines

Promoting Humanitarian Disarmament and effective enjoyment of human rights of survivors and victims of armed conflict. Monitoring Housing Projects in Bogota involving people displaced by armed conflict and landmines. Working together with the Bogota City Hall.

   Interviewing victims of armed conflict and gender based violence, women coming from de Pacific region.

Business or sector Humanitarian Aid, NGOs, displaced people, armed conflict.

Business or sector Public / Institutional Relations, Academy, Think Tanks, Research.

ADMINISTRATOR

Politécnico de Milano

   Multidisciplinary workshop focused on habitat emergency in a context of a catastrophic event.

Business or sector Public / Institutional Relations, Academy, Workshop, Humanitarian causes.

POLITICALINSTITUTIONS COLABORATOR

Centre for the implementation of public policies for equity and development (CIPPEC)

   Conduction of a Survey in a polling station at the presidential election in 2015.