Former Dispute Systems Design Clinic student Camilla Castellanos Forero LLM’25 recently brought her thinking on negotiation and conflict dynamics into this article about her work at Harvard Law School’s Program on International Law and Armed Conflict.

“Colombia’s Catatumbo region has been engulfed in a deepening humanitarian crisis for the past three weeks. More than 50,000 people have been forcibly displaced, over 80 individuals have been killed, and six signatories of the 2016 Peace Agreement have been assassinated. The Colombian government has responded by suspending peace dialogues with the ELN guerrilla group, declaring a state of internal commotion, and launching a military offensive. Once again, Catatumbo is at the heart of a violent conflict that threatens the fragile gains of Colombia’s peace process.”

Read the full article here on the HLS Human Rights Program website.