Daniel Gómez-Uribe is a political scientist and lecturer at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam. His research examines civilian agency and governance in conflict-affected contexts, with particular emphasis on land restitution, indigenous governance of psychoactive plants, and community-led practices of memory and justice. He studied at the University of York and the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam with an Erasmus Mundus scholarship from the European Commission, and completed his PhD in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam on political violence. He has taught and supervised at Dutch universities, including the University of Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Leiden University, guiding students from BA to MA level in courses on civil wars, conflict and development, and research methods.
His work is grounded in long-term field research in Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia, where he co-creates knowledge with rural and indigenous communities through participatory and creative methodologies such as memory workshops, community mapping, and collaborative analysis. His research centres communities as active producers of knowledge, challenging conventional state- and policy-driven approaches and offering theoretical and methodological contributions that connect local practices of coexistence, justice, and governance to broader debates in development studies, conflict resolution, and global drug policy.
dr. Daniel Gómez Uribe
Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Political Science and Public Administration
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