Dr Lina Malagón BA Hons, PhD.

• Lecturer at undergraduate and postgraduate level on global justice studies.
• Senior Research Fellow in the Empowering-Youth-led collective healing project at the Global Humanities for Peace Institute.

Lina Malagón is a lawyer and PhD in International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK. Her career has balanced academic scholarship with work as a researcher, litigant and developing advocacy in conflict-affected and post-conflict countries. Lina has developed interdisciplinary academic research and worked as a practitioner in the field of transitional justice, human rights, peacebuilding and the construction of public policy in Colombia and other Latin American countries.

In 2016, Lina was deputy director of the High Commissioner for the Rights of Victims, Peace and Reconciliation of the Mayor's Office of Bogotá, Colombia, and for five years, director of International Advocacy at the Colombian NGO, Colombian Commission of Jurists. Currently, Lina is the director of the research team Marine Justice and International Law at the Colombian organisation, the Observatory for Marine and Coastal Governance, and a Research Fellow at the Global Humanities for Peace Institute at UWTSD.

I teach on Global Justice, Peacebuilding, Gender, Transitional Justice, Human and Labour Rights and Environmental Rights.

Global Justice, Peacebuilding, Gender, Transitional Justice, Human and Labour Rights, Environmental Rights, International Organisations and Development and Migration.

Lina Malagón has been a consultant to several international organisations, such as the International Labour Organisation, the International Trade Union Organisation and other civil society organisations worldwide. Her work has focused on labour rights and human rights. 

• (2023) ‘The Belfast Good Friday Agreement and transformative change: promise, power and solidarity’. Israel Law Review and Cambridge University Press. with Prof. Fionnuala Ní Aoláin and Prof. Rory O’Connell.
• (2022) ‘Are Economic, social and cultural rights side-lined in Peace Agreements? Insights from Peace Agreements Databases’. Gonzaga Journal of International Law. Volume 25, Issue 2. Co-author with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin and Rory O’Connell.
• (2022) “Transitional Justice, Peacemaking/Peacebuilding”, in Contemporary Peacemaking, (Eds. Roger Mac Ginty and Anthony Wanis-St. John). Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-82962-9. With Roddy Brett.
• (2022) Sharing experiences on sustaining NGO participation in post-conflict space: A Colombia-Northern Ireland Dialogue. Co-author with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin and Rory O’Connell. https://thegenderhub.com/blog/sharing-experiences-on-sustaining-ngo-participation-in-post-conflict-space-a-colombia-northern-ireland-dialogue/
• (2021) Insights on Sustaining NGO Participation in Post Conflict Space, Co-author with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin and Rory O’Connell. Available at: https://thegenderhub.com/publications/insights-on-sustaining-ngo-participation-in-post-conflict-space/
• (2021) Submission to the Ad Hoc Committee on a Bill of Rights from the GCRF Socioeconomic rights and transition research team. Co-author with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin and Rory O’Connell. Available at: https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/submission-to-the-ad-hoc-committee-on-a-bill-of-rights-from-the-g 
• (2020) Realising victims’ rights to reparation, truth and justice in Guatemala in the midst of a zero-sum game, in Reparations, Responsibility and Victimhood in Transitional Societies, Co-author with Roddy Brett. Available at: https://reparations.qub.ac.uk/report-realising-victims-rights-to-reparation-truth-and-justice-in-guatemala-in-the-midst-of-a-zero-sum-game/. 
• (2020) Economic, social and cultural rights overlooked in databases?  Co-author with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin and Rory O’Connell. Available at: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/wps/2020/08/11/economic-social-and-cultural-rights-overlooked-in-databases/. 
• (2014) Article: “Basta Ya!”: On the Colombian Center for Historical Memory Report. World Peace Foundation. Online English version: http://sites.tufts.edu/reinventingpeace/2014/01/13/basta-ya-on-the-colombian-center-for-historical-memory-report/
• (2013) ‘Overcoming the Original Sin of the Original Condition: how reparations may contribute to emancipatory peacebuilding’. Human Rights Review. Vol. 14 Number 3. September 2013. Co-author with Roddy Brett.