Isabel Güiza-Gómez
Peace Studies & Political Science
Isabel Güiza-Gómez is a PhD Candidate in Political Science and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her research examines the conditions under which marginalized actors can forge development and democracy in unequal, violent contexts, with a focus on Latin America. In her dissertation project, Isabel delves into the strategies employed by diverse collective actors, including Indigenous, Afro-descendant, peasant, women, and victim activists, as well as former insurgent groups committed to peace, in driving land redistribution during civil war peace processes. Focusing on the Colombian case, she demonstrates why and how strong Indigenous and Afro-descendant movements achieved collective land titling in the face of weak class-based mobilization by insurgents and peasants after peace bargaining and constitution-making in the early 1990s, while strong insurgents and peasant mobilization forced elites to compromise on individual land titling yet ultimately have fallen short in triggering allocation after 2012-2016 peace negotiation. Her research has been funded by the Graduate Women in Science National Fellowship, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and the Notre Dame Graduate School.
Recent Publications
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Güiza-Gómez, Diana Isabel, Bautista-Revelo, Ana Jimena, Malagón-Pérez, Ana María, and Uprimny-Yepes, Rodrigo. 2020. The Constitution of the Peasantry. Struggles for Recognition and Redistribution in the Legal Field [La Constitución del Campesinado. Luchas por Reconocimiento y Redistribución en el Campo Jurídico]. Bogotá: Dejusticia.
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Güiza-Gómez, Diana Isabel, Santamaría-Chavarro, Camila Andrea, and Uprimny-Yepes, Rodrigo. 2020. "Colombia's Fuerza Pública (Security Forces) in The Special Jurisdiction for Peace: Special Treatment or Preferential Treatment?," in Jus Post Bellum. Restraint, Stabilisation, and Peace, edited by Patrick Leiden, 252-280. Brill | Nijhoff.
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Güiza-Gómez, Diana Isabel and Saffon-Sanín, María Paula. “Colombia en 2018: entre el fracaso de la paz y el inicio de la política programática/Colombia in 2018: between the failure of peace and the beginning of programmatic politics.” Revista de Ciencia Política, Vol. 39, No. 2, 2019, pp. 217-237.
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Güiza-Gómez, Diana Isabel and Uprimny-Yepes, Rodrigo. "Pacigerancia: el valor jurídico de los acuerdos de paz en el derecho internacional". Latin American Law Review, no. 3 (2019): 49-78. https://doi.org/10.29263/lar03.2019.03
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Güiza-Gómez, Isabel, Quinn, Jason and Echavarria, Josefina (2022). "International Humanitarian Law: The Guiding Light for Designing and Implementing Peace Agreements." Peace Agreements Matrix Policy Brief Series https://doi.org/10.
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Güiza-Gómez, Isabel and Uprimny, Rodrigo (2023). "Justicia transicional sin transición: del caso colombiano al mexicano" [Transitional Justice without Transition: From the Colombian to the Mexican Case] in J. Espindola and M. Serrano. Verdad, justicia y memoria: derechos humanos y justicia transicional en México. Ciudad de México: El Colegio de México. ISBN 978-607-564-474-5
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Güiza-Gómez, Diana Isabel, Quinn, Jason, and Echavarría-Alvarez, Josefina. "Generando cumplimiento: la implementación del derecho internacional humanitario en el acuerdo de paz colombiano" [The Construction of Compliance: The Implementation of International Humanitarian Law in the Colombian Peace Agreement] in Solando-Gonzalez, Edgar (editor) Conflicto armado no internacional y Dereco Internacional Humanitario: reflexiones sobre el caso colombiano. Bogotá: Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2023.
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