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Damian Alejandro Gariglio

The expert is a seasoned International Analyst and Political Scientist, specializing in humanitarian disarmament, arms control, and criminal structures operating in the Latin America and Caribbean region, with extensive experience in NGOs in Argentina and Colombia. His research and academic endeavors are dedicated to addressing pressing issues in defense, security, and humanitarian efforts in the region.

Name
Damian Alejandro Gariglio
Occupation
The expert is an International Analyst and Political Scientist, with proven experience working for NGOs in Argentina and Colombia in the humanitarian disarmament and the Defense and Security sector. The expert possess experience in the research and academic field as well focused on humanitarian disarmament, gang-related violence, armed conflicto, arms control, gender based violence, criminal structures, and transnational organized crime issues.
Expertise

Transnational Organized Crime Networks and Criminal structures in the Latin America and Caribbean region, humanitarian disarmament, arms trafficking, gender based violence, gang-related violence, counter-narcotic policies.

Colombian armed conflict, drug-trafficking and human trafficking organizations, paramilitary groups and illegal armed groups. Victims of armed conflict and gender based violence. Colombian political context. 

Venezuelan criminal structures, International Projection of Tren de Aragua in the Andean Region (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile). Human and Migrant trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation Venezuelan Diasporas in Latin America and the United States. Venezuelan political context. 

Gang-related violence in the Northern Triangle of Central America. Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 18. Gang-related violence, state of emergency and hard-lined policies in el Salvador. 

Ortega´s regime in Nicaragua and the persecution of exiles abroad. Country political outburst, control of State´s apparatus and repression tactics against demonstrators and opposition members. Gender Based Violence and persecution of Universities.

Human and drug trafficking networks operating in the Caribbean Islands (Barbados, Dominic Commonwealth, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago). Citizen by investment programs in the Caribbean. 

Brazilian criminal organizations and Drug-trafficking organizations. International projection of Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) and Comando Vermelho (CV) in South America. Penitentiary System in Brazil and current political context. 

Criminal structures in Argentina. Family clans and criminal violence in Rosario and the Triple frontier with Brazil and Paraguay. Drug-trafficking in the Southern Cone. Political context and country of origin reports. 

Experience

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.

Publications

- Lethal autonomous weapons systems and power unbalance, Seguridad Humana en America Latina y el Caribe (SEHLAC), Buenos Aires, 2020.

https://sehlac.org/armas-letales-aut%C3%B3nomas

 - https://www.cepiuba.com/post/desarme-humanitario-desde-el-sur-global-ar…- por-prohibir-los-sistemas-de-arma   

    - https://www.cepiuba.com/post/orden-mundial-post-covid-19

   - Disuasión y cooperación militar: respuestas lógicas a un ascenso asertivo de China¨ Versión digital disponible en IADE, INSTITUTO ARGENTINO PARA EL DESARROLLO ECONÓMICO, September 2020. http://www.iade.org.ar/noticias/disuasion-y-cooperacion-militar-respues…- asertivo-de-china.

Content writer / Political Analyst at “Escenario Mundial”, digital press website. (Pro Bono work)   

    - https://www.escenariomundial.com/author/dgariglio/

Royal United Service Institute (RUSI) Strategic Hub for Organised Crime (SHOC) articles:

- https://www.rusi.org/people/gariglio

 Research paper: New criminal structures in Colombia: Perspectivas Social Sciences 

- https://perspectivasrcs.unr.edu.ar/index.php/PRCS/article/view/760

Research paper: Arms trafficking in Colombia: Universidad Militar Nueva Granada

   - https://revistas.unimilitar.edu.co/index.php/ries/article/view/6370/5598

Content writer / Analysis, digital press website.

  https://www.elestrategico.com/2024/07/08/narcovuelos-las-solidas-redes-…; pcc-en-la-argentina/

-           Revista Harvard Review of Latin America

https://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/author/damian-gariglio/

Languages
Spanish (mother tongue)
English (fluent)
German (Basic)
Ethnic groups expertise
All ethnic groups in countries of expertise
Political groups expertise
All political groups in countries of expertise
Religious groups expertise
All religious groups in countries of expertise
Fees
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