Josefina Echavarría Álvarez

Josefina Echavarría Alvarez is professor of the practice in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. She is director of the Peace Accords Matrix, a research initiative of the Keough School's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.

As the director of the Peace Accords Matrix, she leads the Barometer Initiative in Colombia, which carries out official monitoring of implementation of the 2016 Final Agreement between the government and the former FARC-EP (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People's Army). She also directs the Legacy Project for “Preserving and Engaging the Digital Archive of the Colombian Truth Commission,” which guarantees continued access to more than 200,000 files including audiovisual, non-textual knowledge, and digitized documents compiled by the Colombian Truth Commission about the country’s 52-year armed conflict to advance transitional justice, human rights, and the centrality of victims.

Echavarría Alvarez was previously co-director of the Research Center for Peace and Conflict at the University of Innsbruck and a fellow at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) and Trinity College (Ireland). She has been a guest lecturer at numerous universities around the world on peacebuilding, peace education, gender, conflict analysis, and research methods. She has also managed diverse international cooperation projects in the fields of gender, citizenship, and curricular development for peace and conflict studiess. She holds a PhD in peace, conflict, and democracy from the Jaume I University (Spain), an MA in peace, development, security and international conflict transformation from the University of Innsbruck (Austria), and a BA in government and international relations from the University Externado (Colombia).