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Professor Julian Fernandez

The expert is an experienced academic, researcher, and consultant specializing in social sciences, law, international relations, and peace studies. Expertise in territorial inequalities, peacebuilding, criminality, and international drug control policies.

Name
Professor Julian Fernandez
Occupation
The expert is an experienced faculty member and researcher
specializing in social sciences, law, and international relations. The
expert has extensive background in academia. His research expertise
encompasses territorial peace, international conventions, and drug
trafficking. Adept at coordinating research projects and contributing
to collaborative initiatives on territorial inequalities and peace
studies.
Expertise

Immigration 
Criminality 
Drug Trafficking 
Human Trafficking 
Indigenous Communities  
Conflict and Security 
Domestic Shelter Guidelines 
International Law Treaties on Drugs 
Human Rights 
Territorial Inequalities 
International Conventions

Experience

01/2022 - Currently - Full time faculty at the department of Social Sciences and Law, Universidad Autónoma de Occidente (Cali – Colombia) Research group coordinator. Professor of the courses: International Law, International economics, Research methodology, Colombian History. Academic coordinator of the postgraduate program in Human Rights and Territories. 
 
01/2022 - 05/2023 - Master thesis director at the University of the Artic (Norway) 
 
01/2022 - 12/2022 - Consultant for the formulation of the Doctorate in Peace Studies at the 
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Cali – Colombia)  
 
06/2021 - 12/2021- Professor Adjunct of Theory of International Relations at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Cali – Colombia)  
 
04/2019 - 12/2021 - Assistant Professor at Instituto de Estudios Interculturales (IEI) – Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Cali – Colombia). Professor of Peace building course at the Master of Interculturality, Development, and Territorial Peace. Coordinator of the research axe in Economic Systems, Interculturality, and Human Rights. Formulation of the first Doctorate in Peace Studies of Colombia, program offered by Universidad del Valle 
(public university) and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (private university). 
 
12/2016 - 12/2017 - Administrative assistant Edmond de Rothschild Bank (ParisFrance)  
 
06/2013 - 11/2013 - Professor Adjunct of the Foreign Policy Analysis course and 
International Institutions and Regional Integration course, University ICESI (Cali
Colombia)  
 
03/2010 - 01/2013 - Spanish Professor at ACADOMIA (Paris, France) 
 
09/2007 - 08/2009 - Commercial Director at Hotel Austral (Cali-Colombia 
 
02/2006 - 09/2006 - Intern in sea logistics’ commerce at Lluch Transporter MARMEDSA Group (Madrid, Spain) 
 
Research: 
 
2020 - 2021 - Contested Territories, a Research project between Latin American and European consortium on territorial inequalities, Grant Horizon 2020 European Union. 
 
2020 - 2021 - Territorial Peace: state of the art, Research project, Grant Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. 
 
2010 - 2017 - PhD Dissertation: « Les controverses dans les Conventions Internationales de Contrôle de Stupéfiants : le cas colombien autour des usages autour de la feuille de coca », University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, PhD Supervisor Jean-Louis Briquet. 
 
2009 - 2010 - Master dissertation, « La lutte contre le trafic de la drogue: Diffusion mondiale d’une logique d’éradication, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Master Supervisor Josépha Laroche, 2010.

Publications

• Fernández Julián, Riascos Michael, “Conflictos territoriales e interculturales: El Consejo Comunitario de Citronella y el cabildo indígena de Nonandur un estudio de caso”, Revista Austral, No. 45, pp. 23-40. 

• Fernández Julián, Ramírez Leidy, “Autonomía en las comunidades negras: Retos y logros”, Revista Tramas Maepova, Vol. 11, No.2, pp. (forthcoming) 
• Book review: Fernández Julián, 2022, reseña de Paz decolonial, paces insubordinadas, conceptos, temporalidades y epistemologías, Investigación y Desarrollo, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 408-413. 
• Fernandez Julian, “Le croisement des normes dans l’adoption des conventions 
internationales de contrôle de stupéfiants”, Cahiers Jean Moulin, No. 6, 2020, p. 1-18. 
• Fernández Julián, “El caso judicial de Luciano Quiguanas: de la prisión a las excusas 
públicas del Estado” en: Molano Giovanni (Ed.), El problema de las drogas en America Latina: Nuevos enfoques, nuevas interpretaciones, Bogota, Universidad Nacional. 
• Fernández Julián, “The norm prohibiting coca leaf chewing: from the international system to the Colombian State”, Desafios, Vol. 29, No.2, 2017, pp.343-365. 
• Book review: Fernandez Julian, reseña de Paz decolonial, paces insubordinadas, conceptos, temporalidades y epistemologías, Investigacion y Desarrollo, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 408-413. 
• Press: Fernández Julián, “Signos de fisuras en el sistema internacional de control de drogas”, Portafolio, 14 February 2014. 
• Press: Fernández Julián, “La soberanía nacional en evolucion”, Portafolio, 21 February 2016. 
• Science blog: Fernández Julián, “Seeing Through the Havana Peace Agreement’s Approach to Drug Policy”, Royal United Services Institute, London, 14 November 2018. 

Languages
• Spanish (native),
• English (fluent),
• French (fluent),
• Italian (intermediate)
• Dutch (beginner)
Ethnic groups expertise
All ethnics groups in countries of expertise.
Political groups expertise
All political groups in countries of expertise.
Religious groups expertise
All religious groups in countries of expertise.