Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón

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  • Honorary Research Associate, Department of Political and International Studies, Rhodes University

Scholar of Conflict, International Security and Development with a interdisciplinary background in Industrial Engineering and Systems Dynamics.

My current research is interested in exploring how emerging technologies, geopolitical competition and systemic risks shape security politics and development trajectories in the Global South. Doctor in Development Studies. Scholar and senior lecturer specialising in comparative politics, conflict, development and governance in Africa and Latin America. My research engages on how political, economic, and technology shape development trajectories dynamics in the Global South through a comparative lens. Methodologically, I combine qualitative and quantitative approaches, including comparative analysis, political economy, and applied policy research. Extensive undergraduate and postgraduate teaching experience across multiple political systems, including large cohort and small-cohort teaching and course coordination of undergraduate and postgraduate students in Colombia, the Netherlands, and Southern Africa from the global north and the global south.

Recent publications include a forthcoming monograph with Palgrave on conflict and discontent in South Africa and Colombia, as well as publications regarding Agenda 2063 (Africa’s development agenda); regularly published in various specialized online publications on topics related to development, as well as in media outlets such as Al Jazeera, Time, Los Angeles Times, The Conversation, among others. Some of my writings have been translated to different languages including Chinese, Spanish, French, German, and Serbo-Croatian.

Experience

  • –present
    Researcher on Conflict, Peace and Development, International Institute of Social Studies
  • –present
    Research Associate, Department of Political and International Studies- Rhodes University

Education

  • 2022 
    Erasmus University Rotterdam, PhD in Development Studies
  • 2011 
    International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), MA in Development Studies
  • 2006 
    Universidad de los Andes, MSc in Engineering
  • 2004 
    Universidad de los Andes, BSc in Industrial Engineering

Publications

  • 2026
    Transitions in Discontent: The Relationship Between Protests and Armed Conflict in Colombia and South Africa,
  • 2025
    Africa's Leadership in Global Development Debates: Contribution of the Common African Position to the Post‐2015 Development Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals,
  • 2024
    Climate change-related shocks, assets and welfare outcomes in South Africa,
  • 2023
    Civil Wars; Escalation and De-escalation,
  • 2021
    Piketty comes to South Africa,
  • 2021
    Inequality and the Socioeconomic Dimensions of Mobility in Protests: The Cases of Quito and Santiago,
  • 2020
    Right privilege? The normalisation of protest and dissent in Colombia,
  • 2018
    Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in Colombia: Transitioning from Violence,
  • 2017
    Inequality, Social Protests and Civil War,
  • 2013
    'Give War a Chance’: All Out War as a Means of Ending Conflict - Comparing Sri Lanka and Colombia,

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