Colombians are growing increasingly frustrated at their government's failure to produce progressive advances. This failure signals a peculiar democratic deficit: oligarchic modes of rule. Jan Boesten, Lerber Dimas, Daniel Llanos Ramírez and William Mesa argue that oligarchy offers new insights into Latin America's democratic delinquents
Scientific Researcher, Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research (HIIK)
Daniel is a researcher in Latin American politics, with a focus on organised crime-related violence in Honduras and El Salvador.
He is a founding member of the Group for Interdisciplinary Peace and Conflict Research.
Daniel's research interests delve into peacebuilding, conflict resolution, and the interplay between environmental activism and (para- state) violence.
His publications include contributions to the Conflict Barometer 2023 on Honduras' drug trafficking organisations and organised crime, a piece on socio-environmental movements in Colombia and their territorial struggles in a hostile environment (Guardianes y Víctimas. Movimientos socioambientales en Colombia y la lucha por el territorio en un entorno hostil), published in Enacting the Future - Environmental activism worldwide, Journal für Entwicklungspolitik 2023, and an exploration of the effects of warring and civil oligarchs on Colombia's subnational democracy.
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