Pamina Firchow earned her Ph.D. in Development Studies (2009) from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, where her research dealt with the uprisings of the unemployed groups in Argentina around the 2001 economic crisis. She also holds an MSc (2002) in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics and an M.A. (2005) in International Relations and peace and Conflict Resolution from the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she was a Rotary World Peace Scholar.
Firchow's research and teaching expertise is on topics of security and development, peace and conflict, transitional justice, Latin American politics, revolution and social movements. She has several projects at various stages of completion, including articles based on her dissertation research, a project she is pursuing on transitional justice in Colombia and another on online dissidents in Cuba.
Before entering academia, Firchow worked (in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America) on the worldwide campaign to stop the spread of small arms and light weapons with the Federation of American Scientists, Saferworld, the Small Arms Survey, the Asociación para Políticas Publicas, and the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress.
She is fluent in English, German, and Spanish, with good knowledge of Italian and French.
